The object of the present invention is to produce a masticable food, composed of an oil-in-water-type emulsion gel which has a shape-retaining property and an oil-holding property before mastication and from which oil and fat oozes during mastication to make swallowing smooth, by using any oil and fat. An oil-in-water-type emulsion gel food containing oil droplets having a particle diameter of 50-800 μm is used. Preferably, the oil and fat is vegetable oil or fish oil, the food is a heat-sterilized food, and the gel is a soybean protein gel crosslinked by a protein corsslinking enzyme.
