COMPOSITION FOR THICKENING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food having an excellent property as an swallowing down auxiliary agent by making it easy to mix fat and oil to a liquid food because a food is hardly eaten by a patient having a disorder in a swallowing function because the food easily remain in an oral cavity or a throat from high gooey feeling and hardly gathering property because an adding quantity is increased and gooey feeling is increased for obtaining a proper hardness in the case of using a thickening stabilizer having thickenability to liquid foods such as a liquid food and milk containing a lot of protein, fat, minerals, food masses hardly gather in the case of using thickning polysaccharides having gelatinization action.SOLUTION: The above problem is solved by using a thickening composition for helping to swallow down characterized by adding 1 to 10 pts.wt. of the thickening composition based on 100 pts.wt. of a liquid food so as to be able to mix 30 to 200 pts.wt of oil-and-fat based on 100 pts.wt of the liquid food.