The extra technical term for body fat is adipose tissue, with person cells being referred to as adipocytes ('adipo' = fats; 'cyte' = mobile). In human beings, the primary sort of fats cell is referred to as white adipose tissue, or WAT, so named because of its shade (it's simply kind of a milky yellow). WAT in human beings consists in the main (anywhere from eighty to ninety five%) of lipid. By lipid I mean saved triglycerides (saved fatty acids in fats cells) (2)