To provide a food which has a promoting effect on the bonding of fats to a lipolysis-promoting enzyme in a human body to decease the fats at a local place or all places of the human body, and has an improved bitter or harsh taste, is effective for preventing and treating obesity, and improves the bitter and harsh taste of the food.

The food for lean figures is characterized by (a) containing a compound represented by formula (1) (R1 is H, OH or OCH3; R2 is H or a sugar residue) and/or a compound represented by formula (2) and (b) the extract of a material selected from the group consisting of oolong tea, puehr tea, roasted adlay, Euonymus trichocarpus HAYATA leaves, and jasmin flowers.