Rasvakyllästettyjä

Rasvakyllästettyjä is a Finnish adjective phrase meaning “fat-saturated” or “saturated with fat.” It is formed from rasva (fat) and kyllästetty (saturated), and its plural accusative or partitive form is rasvakyllästettyjä, used with plural nouns.

In neutral, formal Finnish the standard term for saturated fats in nutrition is tyydyttyneet rasvat. Rasvakyllästettyjä is therefore more descriptive and common in non-technical or general-language contexts, where something is described as having been saturated with fat. The expression can describe foods, materials, or biological structures that contain or are impregnated with fat. In technical literature, alternative formulations such as rasvoilla kyllästetty or tyydyttyneet rasvat might be preferred depending on the exact meaning.

Grammatical use: rasvakyllästettyjä agrees with a plural noun in the partitive or accusative plural, e.g., rasvakyllästettyjä tuotteita, rasvakyllästettyjä kalvoja, rasvakyllästettyjä huukkukääreitä. The construction is productive as a compound adjective, allowing a range of concrete or abstract referents.

Examples of nuance: describing a product that has been coated or enriched with fat, or a cellular membrane that has absorbed fats. It can also appear in descriptive writing about cooking processes or food science, though it remains less common in formal nutrition texts where tyydyttyneet rasvat is preferred.

See also: tyydyttyneet rasvat, lipidy, rasvan kyllästyminen.