Deodorized palm oil was provided by Agropalma S/A (Belem,Brazil). Five hard fats obtained by fully hydrogenation of liquid oils were evaluated. The hard fats and their major fatty acids are: hard fat of palm kernel oil (PKO) hard fat of palm oil (PO) hard fat of cottonseed oil (CO) hard fat of soybean oil
(SO) and hard fat of crambe oil (CR)