Talk:Medium-chain triglyceride

message: MCTs can raise blood cholesterol levels.
"MCTs significantly raised serum cholesterol in subjects with prior mild hypercholesterolemia."
MCTs "decreased HDL cholesterol"
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FDN/is_5_7/ai_94159012/pg_2
Mixing phytosterols with MCTs can reduce these negative impacts: "MCT oil, phytosterols and flaxseed oil" results in "a better lipid profile than those who consume a diet rich in OL [olive oil]" alone.
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/133/6/1815
Itsme2003 16:12, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cholesterol 

message: It appears that the reference (currently [1]) on the ratios of various MCTs in coconut oils is no longer valid; now it leads to an index of terms, which doesn't immediately appear to have an entry for MCTs.
--Rory-Mulvaney (talk) 01:00, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The link was invalid.  And searching the PDRHealth.org did not reveal the intended article.  Doing a little more searching, I did not find a statement which backed up the assertion.  So, I replaced it with "citation needed."  However, looking at a couple of sample products, the statement did appear reasonable and worth keeping.  NOTE that the assertion of MCT ratios in the article is for commercial products, not coconut oil which is the topic of this question.  Fatty acid ratios in coconut oil are quite different.  According to the USDA FNIC database, coconut oil has about: 8% caprylic (8 Carbons), 7% capric (10 C), 46% lauric (12 C), 18% myristic (14 C), 8% palmitic (16 C), 2% stearic (18 C). --EricE (talk) 18:26, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clear up reference on MCT ratios  

message: The Handbook of Functional Lipids is an excellent source of info on MCTs. I'd recommend anyone editing this article to read the relevant section and follow the refs. --Slashme (talk) 07:42, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excellent source 

message: The assertions in the first paragraph of "Dietary Relevance" are both dubious, and probably not on topic, at least as written.  For example, it says:
:The milk fats of cows, sheep, and goats are rich in short-chain fatty acids.
According to the cited source and others, the values are about 10% of total fat.  Is that a "rich source"?  And since this is an article about MCT, is it relevant?  The paragraph might be rewordable to make it relevant and more correct.  Otherwise, it might be worth removing. --EricE (talk) 18:33, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dietary Relevance needs cleanup 

message: Why are all MCFA also SFA? Aren't there mono- or polyunsaturated MCFA? User:ScotXWt@lk 14:46, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  saturation 

message: Why does MCT oil cause stomach upset and diarrhoea?  Can it be mitigated by consuming it in a greater number of smaller doses, giving it a better chance of being digested?  Correctrix (talk) 08:31, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: We don't give advice in WP. Jytdog (talk) 14:15, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stomach upset 

message: There should be a mention in the article of MCAD defficiency and a link to the wikipedia page on the condition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-chain_acyl-coenzyme_A_dehydrogenase_deficiency  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.15.172.97 (talk) 15:04, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  MCAD Defficiency 

message: Section "List of MCFAs" has a factually incorrect statement: "With regard to MCFAs, apart from the above listed straight chain (unbranched chain) fatty acids, side chain (branched chain) fatty acids, e.g. nonanoic acid, also exist."Seizure control by ketogenic diet-associated medium chain fatty acids". 2013. PMC 3625124 " That reference, and the wikipedia article on nonanoic acid, describe it as straight chain.
Imaginaryhollow (talk) 14:15, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, nonanoic acid was incorrectly listed as an example of a branched fatty acid.  I have simply removed it from the sentence.  Thanks for catching the error and reporting it here.  -- Ed (Edgar181) 14:43, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Branched chain MCFAs 

message: Do whole triglycerides get diffused into blood or are they decomposed into fatty acids first like other fats? I don't know much on the subject, and am likely misunderstanding. On one hand, most sources only ever discuss "triglycerides" (it's in the name), but descriptions of Butterfat suggest that t.g. are mostly mixed with shorter acids found on position 3, and only an insignificant fraction could be entirely short or medium. -- J7n (talk) 10:17, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whole triglycerides or fatty acids 

message: The article says that MCTs are "a good biologically inert source of energy." That doesn't make sense to me. If it's a source of energy, it's not inert. If is metabolized by the body, it's not inert. Social Norm (talk) 22:49, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biologically inert?