A salt or ester of elaidic acid, used in research and industrial applications involving trans fats and hydrogenated oils.
From elaidic acid (a trans unsaturated fatty acid) combined with the chemical suffix '-ate' indicating a salt or ester compound.
ElaIdates became infamous in nutrition science because they're the trans fats that made food last forever on shelves—creating a chemical that our bodies find incredibly hard to process!
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