What Is Mead Acid (20:3 n-9)?
Mead acid, 20:3 n-9, is also called Eicosatrienoic acid. It’s a polyunsaturated, omega-9 fatty acid. If you have a deficiency of essential fatty acids, you can get an elevated presence of mead acid in the blood.
You can find mead acid in large quantities in cartilage.
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How Mead Acid Works
Mead acid is known as an unusual fatty acid that accumulates during dietary essential fatty acid insufficiency. (source ◳)
In the body, Mead acid can be synthesized from oleic acid if there is an essential fatty acid deficiency, EFAD. But the conversion of oleic acid to Mead acid has not been fully explained. (source ◳)
Essential fatty acid deficiency is a metabolic condition related to cancer development. (source ◳)
Where To Find Mead Acid?
Mead acid is a naturally occurring fatty acid and is found in vegetable oils and animal fats.
Mead acid is also an intermediate product in the production of valeric acid, a chemical used in the production of plastics and other products.
Mead acid is an important chiral compound that is used in the manufacture of many pharmaceuticals, such as the cholesterol-lowering drug, atorvastatin, and the neuroleptic, thiothixene.
Produce Mead Acid
Mead acid is typically produced by a process that includes a fermentation of carbohydrates, such as corn syrup, with an ethanologenic microorganism, such as a yeast, followed by an acid hydrolysis of the fermentation product to form mead acid.