PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a beverage having striking characteristic taste and flavor of materials such as coffee without masking the taste, etc., while keeping milk-like palatability and flavor.SOLUTION: The beverage contains vegetable oil-and-fat and casein and satisfies the following formulas (I) and (II) (I) 0.14&leB/A&le-0.8227A+2.0563, (II) 0.5&leA&le2.0, wherein A is wt.% of the vegetable oil-and-fat and B is wt.% of casein.