Talk:Palmitic acid

Discussion
Examples - Aspartate, Butanoate, Glutamate, etc. There are also separate articles for Acetate/Acetic acid, Propionate/Propionic acid, etc. -- Boris 07:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC) It would be convenient to see the dissociated form of the organic acid(s) on the same page. [User: AliceAliciaWilliams]

True, but there really is no need to separate the acid and its conjugate base. So long as it is clear and explicitly written that palmitate is the conjugate base of palmitic acid, there will be no confusion.

Research on palmitic acid
I made several changes:

"a saturated fatty acid found in processed meats, cheeses, dairy, particularly ice cream" (it had said a common fatty acid found in animals and plants)

"Because it is inexpensive and adds texture" (it had said "inexpensive and is benign"). Per the article below it is far from benign.

And I added the reference sentence that says:

"Another study showed that chronic exposure of pancreatic beta-cells to saturated non-esterified fatty acids can lead to inhibition of insulin secretion (insulin resistance) and apoptosis."

With a link to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20840078

Les Proctor 21:10, 5 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by LesTP (talk • contribs)

Relation to stored fats
What is the relation of Palmitic acid and the storage of fat in humans. I noticed

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I have been reading some of the wiki pages about fatty acids and I have found an inconsistency between this page and another wiki page. This page, which I am assuming for the time being is more accurate, states that palmitic acid is also known as hexadecanoic acid. There hence must be 16 carbons in the chain. However, on the wiki page for 'fatty acids' there is, about half way down the page, a figure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rasyslami.jpg) that shows 3-D chemical structures for several fatty acids. One of the fatty acids shown is 'palmitic acid'. However the structure shown there tagged as palmitic acid has only 8 carbons in the chain.

David —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.165.221.63 (talk) 21:35, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * There are 16 carbons in that picture. It is three dimensional and the other 8 carbons are on the opposite side, facing away. If you look closely you can see the tops of the white spheres representing the hydrogens bonded to them, clearly different from the hydrogens in the foreground.--Dogtownman (talk) 17:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Quotes from This Wiki article:
1 Excess carbohydrates in the body are converted to palmitic acid. 2 According to the World Health Organization, evidence is "convincing" that consumption of palmitic acid increases risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, placing it in the same evidence category as trans fatty acids. (Reference is from 2003, please check new information !! )

For me it is VERY hard to believe something is as dangerous as trans-fats. Another point: While "Quote 1" is probably correct, it may be said excess carbohydrates are VERY dangerous, unless you have new information. ee1518 (talk) 10:14, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Reference 18 should be removed.
Reference 18, http://www.marksdailyapple.com/palmitic-acid-and-eating-speed/#axzz4622q0Ti6, is just some guy expressing an opinion. It needs to be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.5.220.253 (talk) 15:15, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree and have removed the reference and the claim based on it. -- Ed (Edgar181) 15:18, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Is this true?
From the lead: "most common saturated fatty acid found in animals, plants and microorganisms"

See here: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/965#section=Top (first sentence) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.83.56.115 (talk) 20:19, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * What a great eye! But ... this article says that palmitic acid is the most common saturated fatty acid.  More common that palmitic acid is oleic acid, which is unsaturated.  Please keep up the good work.  Gratefully, --Smokefoot (talk) 01:26, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Right! No, you are owed any thanks; I'm still trying to understand these fatty acids (specifically: how come different studies on the same seeds produce such diff. acid profiles, and how much do these studies actually tell us about edibility? (you can't just drink this stuff, right? It needs to be in a triglyciride, no?)).
 * Cheers!  Leo  86.83.56.115 (talk) 11:21, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Effects on cancer metastasis
I found another reference that might be useful: some studies have found that palmitic acid can promote metastasis of mouth and skin cancers. Jarble (talk) 14:48, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Would need WP:MEDRS. Alexbrn (talk) 14:56, 13 November 2021 (UTC)