Organic Chemical
dietary phospholipid
die·tar·y phos·pho·lip·id
Definitions related to dietary phospholipid:
  • A chemically heterogeneous group of lipid molecules found in food containing one glycerol molecule that is esterified with two fatty acids and either inositol, choline, serine or ethanolamine. (Shils, et al.).
    CRCH Nutrition Terminology
    Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, 2021
  • Any substance found in the diet, comprising a glycerol backbone covalently bound to fatty acids in 2 positions, and to a phosphate group in the third position. Dietary phospholipids also include molecules derived physiologically from this basic structure. Fatty acid components of dietary phospholipids can be any of a broad variety found in nature.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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