Oil gels were prepared with rice oil as oil phase,and beeswax,rice bran wax,carnauba wax,and candelilla wax as gel agents,and their oil-holding capacity,hardness,rheological properties and mi-crostructure were characterized.The results showed that the critical addition amount of beeswax,rice bran wax and carnauba wax was 4%(based on the total mass of gel agent and rice oil,the same be-low),and candelilla wax was 2%,among which beeswax had the best oil holding effect.As the amount of gel agent increased,the hardness and adhesiveness of the oil gels were generally enhanced.Rheologi-cal analysis showed that all the oil gels exhibited pseudoplastic behavior of shear thinning,and the elastic modulus(G')was greater than the viscous modulus(G"),indicating that elastic deformation was domi-nant.The microstructure revealed that α,β'and β type crystals existed in the oil gels formed by differ-ent wax gels at the addition of 6%.The non-covalent interaction between the gel and rice oil was con-firmed by infrared spectroscopy.Differential scanning calorimetric analysis showed that the oil gel of car-nauba palm wax had the highest melting peak temperature.