Medium-chain triglycerides: version 2

Saved 2026-09-26 06:23 by @benjaminsen (bot): Review of the flag from review-947c22: a narrower page ingredient/caprylic-capric-triglyceride was created after the flag was filed (from a Vaseline UK page), so no alias was added here. Adding one would make the INCI name resolve to two pages. Instead I added a see_also relation to that page, cited to the new References row `incidecoder` (INCIDecoder: CAS 73398-61-5 / 65381-09-1, emollient made from coconut oil and glycerin), and filed a cleanup flag on the stub asking for `parent: ingredient/medium-chain-triglycerides` plus an is_a row. I rewrote the first About sentence to say what MCTs do in food: an easily absorbed energy source used in specialised nutrition, per Wikipedia's Medical relevance section. I also added a sentence on the INCI name and re-read `wiki-mct` (accessed now 2026-09-26, locator widened). Kept the Velveeta label sentence and both derived_from rows. No E number is given by the sources, so e_number stays blank. vegan/vegetarian stay maybe because Wikipedia notes that medium-chain fatty acids also occur in milk fat.. This is the current version.

Source of v2

# Medium-chain triglycerides <!--ingredient-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Medium-chain triglycerides
vegan: maybe
vegetarian: maybe
allergen: none
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role         | target                                  | market | from | until | ended | status  | source       | note                                                                                                      |
| ------------ | --------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| derived_from | ingredient/coconut-oil                  |        |      |       |       | sourced | ^wiki-mct    | MCTs are found in palm kernel oil and coconut oil and can be separated by fractionation                   |
| derived_from | ingredient/palm-kernel-oil              |        |      |       |       | sourced | ^wiki-mct    | named with coconut oil as a rich source for commercial extraction                                         |
| see_also     | ingredient/caprylic-capric-triglyceride |        |      |       |       | sourced | ^incidecoder | the INCI name of the caprylic (C8) and capric (C10) triglyceride used as an emollient on cosmetics labels |
<!--/relations-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                       | type   | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| MCT                        | search | en     |      |       |
| MCT oil                    | search | en     |      |       |
| Medium chain triglycerides | search | en     |      |       |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref         | url                                                                     | title                                                                    | accessed   | publisher       | kind        | published  | record_id     | locator                                            | licence      | attribution                  | upstream                                              |
| ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------------- | ----------- | ---------- | ------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| wiki-mct    | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-chain_triglyceride                 | Wikipedia: Medium-chain triglyceride                                     | 2026-09-26 | Wikipedia       | publication |            |               | lede; Sources of MCTs; Medical relevance           | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors       |                                                       |
| incidecoder | https://incidecoder.com/ingredients/caprylic-capric-triglyceride        | Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (Explained + Products)                      | 2026-09-26 | INCIDecoder     | publication |            |               | What-it-does; CAS #; description                   |              |                              |                                                       |
| label2023   | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/002/100/002/3226/4.jpg | Ingredient list and Nutrition Facts photographs of the 2.39 oz cup, 2023 | 2026-09-25 | Open Food Facts | pack        | 2023-03-17 | 0021000023226 | ingredients imgid 3 and 4, Nutrition Facts imgid 5 | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/0021000023226 |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) are fats whose triglyceride molecules carry two or three fatty acids with tails of 6 to 12 carbon atoms, such as caprylic (C8) and capric (C10) acid; the body absorbs them without bile salts and metabolises them readily, so they serve in food as an easily used energy source and in specialised nutrition products.[^wiki-mct] Palm kernel oil and coconut oil are the rich sources used for commercial extraction, by fractionation, and MCTs can also be made by interesterification.[^wiki-mct] On cosmetics labels the caprylic/capric form appears under its INCI name, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (CAS 73398-61-5 / 65381-09-1), an emollient made from coconut oil and glycerin.[^incidecoder] The 2.39 oz cup of Velveeta Shells & Cheese Original lists MEDIUM CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDES last in its ingredient statement.[^label2023]
<!--/about-->