The invention relates to the field of
food processing, and aims at providing a method for preparing high-purity
lutein ester by using
tagetes extract. The method has the advantages that the sources ofthe raw materials are wide, the production cost is low, and the
solvent can be reutilized. The method comprises the following steps of adding the
tagetes extract into a supercritical CO2 (
carbon dioxide) extracting tank, extracting and purifying, so as to obtain high-purity
tagetes extract I; guiding the high-purity tagetes extract I into a stainless steel tank, adding
ethyl acetate of which themass is equal to 5 to 10 times of the
mass of the high-purity tagetes extract I, fully mixing and stirring, stirring for 30 to 45min at the temperature of 30 to 45 DEG C, enabling a high-speed centrifuging
machine to
centrifuge, and collecting precipitate II; adding an absolute ethyl
alcohol solution of which the
mass is equal to 5 to 6 times of the
mass of the precipitate II into the stainless steel tank, mixing with the precipitate II, fully mixing the mixture, enabling the high-speed centrifuging
machine to
centrifuge, and collecting precipitate III; scraping the precipitate III into a stainless steel tray, uniformly dispersing, placing into a
vacuum drying box, and
drying under the vacuum condition, so as to obtain the finished product of the high-purity
lutein ester.