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essential fatty acid

fatty acids that humans and other animals must ingest because the body requires them for good health but cannot synthesize them
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essential fatty acid

Summary

essential fatty acid ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (609 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • essential fatty acid is a type of fatty acid[2].
  • essential fatty acid is a type of essential nutrient[3].
  • essential fatty acid comprises oxygen[4].
  • essential fatty acid comprises carbon[5].
  • essential fatty acid's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Essential fatty acids[6].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include fatty acid[2] and essential nutrient[3].

Use and Application

Components include oxygen[4], a chemical element[7] and carbon[5], a chemical element[8].

Why It Matters

essential fatty acid ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (609 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [7] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → fatty acid, essential nutrient
    Subclass of → —
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2652537
    Has parts → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007543707305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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