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Triglycerides are the most common type of fat in your blood. They are made up of three fatty acid molecules attached to a glycerol backbone.

When you eat, your body converts calories it doesn't need right away into triglycerides, which are stored in fat cells for later use as energy. Triglycerides also come directly from dietary fats.

Triglycerides are measured as part of a lipid panel, which also includes total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and HDL cholesterol. For adults, a healthy fasting triglyceride level is below 150 mg/dL.

Triglycerides come from two main sources: dietary fats absorbed through the intestine and carried as chylomicrons, and endogenous production by the liver, which packages them into VLDL particles for transport through the bloodstream.