Patent ID: 8399041

Claim:
A plastic fat composition having a fat content of 77.1% by weight or more, wherein said plastic fat composition comprises water and fats and/or oil in a water-in-oil emulsion, wherein the oil phase of the water-in-oil emulsion comprises a composition prepared from fats and/or oils, which are essentially free from trans acid residues as a raw material, blended with a mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids product that is essentially free from trans acid residues, wherein the mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids product: (1) has a palmitic acid content of 10% or more, and a palmitic acid and stearic acid content of 90% or more, based on 100% of the fatty acid constituting the mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids product, yet is essentially free from trans acids; and (2) has a diester content of 50% by mass or more and a monoester content of 5% by mass or less, based on 100% by mass of the mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids product.