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MCT – Medium-chain triglycerides MCT – Medium-chain triglycerides
Written by Team Food
12.02.2015

MCT – Medium-chain triglycerides

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MCT – Medium-chain triglycerides

Chantal Theiler

Head of Business Unit Food

IMPAG AG

+41 43 499 25 59E-mail LinkedIn

MCTs are fats made up of fatty acids about six to twelve carbon atoms long. 

MCTs are found above all in palm seed oil and coconut oil. The medium-chain fatty acids are obtained from these oils using special methods and then esterified into new triglycerides (fat molecules).

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