Lexicon of Lipid Nutrition: Fatty Acid Nomenclature Tables

A lexicon document detailing the terminology and concepts used in lipid nutrition, produced by a joint working group of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. It includes tables listing shorthand formulas and systematic and trivial names for saturated, monoenoic, and polyenoic fatty acids. The document was authored by J. Beare-Rogers of Okanagan College.

Use Cases

• Standardizing fatty acid nomenclature in research based on the provided systematic and trivial names.
• Cross-referencing lipid terminology across chemistry, biochemistry, and food science disciplines based on the lexicon's integrated concepts.
• Identifying biologically important fatty acids using the shorthand formulas and tables included in the document.

Strengths

• Authored by a joint working group of two major international scientific unions (IUNS and IUPAC).
• Includes three structured tables categorizing saturated, monoenoic, and polyenoic fatty acids.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

J. Beare-Rogers, Okanagan College

Collection Method

Produced by a joint IUNS/IUPAC working group.