Patent ID: 7232586

Claim:
An oil or fat composition comprising the following ingredients (A), (B), (C) and (D): (A) an oil or fat containing from about 60 to 100% by weight of diglyceride, by 100 parts by weight of the oil or fat composition, the diglyceride further comprising fatty acids, wherein the amount of fatty acids that are unsaturated is from about 80 to 100 wt.%, by 100 parts by weight of the diglyceride; (B) from about 0.001 to 1% by weight of ingredient (A) of a carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of C 2-8 hydroxycarboxylic acids, dicarboxylic acids, tricarboxylic acids, salts and derivatives thereof, and mixtures thereof; (C) from about 0.001 to 5% by weight of ingredient (A) of an antioxidant; and (D) from about 0.05 to 4.7 % by weight of ingredient (A) of a plant sterol wherein the glyceride's saturated dissolved-water content is 1,500 to 50,000 ppm.