Question

Why should we prefer vegetable oils over animal fats for cooking food give a balanced chemical equation for the reaction for hydrogenation equation for this reaction for hydorogenation of vegetables oils name of the catalysts?

Answer 1

Explanation:

As we know that animal fat as ghee (which is not good for health ) for cooking purposes....the balanced equation for hydrogenation of vegetable oil is given below --

CH2=CH2 + H2 (+ Ni catalyst) => CH3-CH3 This basically represents a unsaturated molecule (like vegetable oil) being hydrogenated to a saturated molecule (containing no double bonds).

Answer 2

Answer:

It is because animal fats are saturated hydrocarbons which are harmful for health but vegetable oil are unsaturated carbon compounds which are healthy.