It is intended to provide a procedure for, in the fractionation of
vegetable butter, transesterified fat or oil, isomerized hydrogenated fat
or oil, etc. without the use of solvents, obtaining high-concentration
component G2U (defined below) by concentrating operation through
reduction of the amount of liquid component residue in crystal portion.
There is provided a method of dry fractionation of fat or oil
characterized in that fat or oil (A) containing components G2U and GU2 is
fractionated through crystallization/solid-liquid separation into crystal
fraction of concentrated G2U (AF) and liquid fraction of concentrated GU2
(AL), subsequently this crystal fraction (AF) is mixed with liquid
G2U-containing fat or oil (B) whose GU2 concentration is lower than that
of the liquid fraction (AL) and thereafter the mixture is separated into
crystal fraction (BF) and liquid fraction (BL). Provided that G
represents a saturated or trans acid form fatty acid residue; U a cis
form unsaturated fatty acid residue; and G2U a triglyceride of G2-residue
and U1-residue bonded together.