Saturated fatty acids vs. unsaturated fatty acid

[libraryismyhome]

One of BR FL question was saying that unsaturated fatty acid could be oxidized more because of double bonds.

Is this true? If I am looking at fatty acid oxidation, saturated can do more oxidation than unsaturated during beta fatty oxidation.

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[jissho]

If the saturated and unsaturated fatty acid have an identical number of carbons we should expect them to undergo the same number of beta oxidation steps.

The unsaturated FA needs to go through additional isomerization and/or reduction reactions in order to proceed through the beta oxidation pathway. These processes do not change the number of carbons in the FA and thus do not alter the amount of beta oxidation steps that the unsaturated FA can go through.

Perhaps they meant the unsaturated FA is more oxidized because of it has double bonds?