A mixture containing fatty acid glycerides which has a high percentage
content of PUFA acyl groups and a low percentage content of saturated
fatty acid acyl groups is described. A process which enables the PUFA
acyl groups in a mixture containing fatty acid glycerides (for example a
fish oil) to be enriched and, at the same time, the content of saturated
fatty acid acyl groups to be maintained at a low content is described.
The process is a hydrolytic process or an alcoholysis in which the fatty
acid acyl groups to be enriched are hydrolytically or alcoholytically
released from the fatty acid glycerides slowly, if at all, the process
being carried out in the presence of a lipase.