Rats were fed with the diet of various saturated fatty acid and saturated triglycerides for 8 weeks and the effect on their serum cholesterol was studied. When stearic, palmitic, myristic, lauric, capric and caproic acids, and tristearin, tripalmitin, trimyristin, trilaurin, tricaprin and tricapron were fed, the increase of serum cholesterol was observed in the same rate of all, as compared with that of linoleic-oleic acids (1 : 5) group.
