{"id":95,"date":"2009-01-01T19:56:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T02:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/medium-chain-triglycerides.php"},"modified":"2009-01-01T19:56:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T02:56:51","slug":"medium-chain-triglycerides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/medium-chain-triglycerides\/","title":{"rendered":"Medium Chain Triglycerides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abbreviated MCTs.\u00a0 Medium chain triglycerides contain shorter chain fatty acids than conventional fats do: generally, the fatty acids are 6 &#8211; 12 carbons in length.\u00a0 MCTs are more easily metabolized than long chain triglycerides, and are slightly lower in calories.\u00a0 MCTs are also more thermogenic than long chain triglycerides, which is why they&#8217;re often added to certain\u00a0reduced carb\u00a0foods\/supplements.<\/p>\n<p>MCTs are primarily sourced from coconut oil, and are\u00a0technically saturated fats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbreviated MCTs.\u00a0 Medium chain triglycerides contain shorter chain fatty acids than conventional fats do: generally, the fatty acids are 6 &#8211; 12 carbons in length.\u00a0 MCTs are more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[283,643,647,930],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}