Why vegetable oils are considered healthy as compared to vegetable ghee? How are they converted into ghee? What name is given to the reaction?
Vegetable oils contain unsaturated fatty acids which are good for the health, whereas vegetable ghee contains saturated fatty acids which are harmful to our health.
Vegetable oils are converted into ghee by the process of hydrogenation. Hydrogen is added to unsaturated compounds in the presence of a catalyst (such as nickel) to produce saturated compounds. The reaction is illustrated as:
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