The invention discloses a method for extracting
hydroxytyrosol from olive fruits, which comprises the steps of weighing a proper amount of olive fruit
powder, adding a
sulfuric acid aqueous solution for
acid hydrolysis extraction, and keeping the temperature at 80-90 DEG C; adjusting the pH value of the extracted extracting solution to 5-7 by using a NaOH solution to obtain a slightly neutral extracting solution; extracting the slightly neutral extracting solution with
ethyl acetate, wherein the volume ratio of the slightly neutral extracting solution to the
ethyl acetate is 1: (3-5), and a
hydroxytyrosol extracting solution is obtained; and carrying out concentration and
crystallization on the
hydroxytyrosol extraction liquid, then conducting vacuum
freeze drying, and obtaining a hydroxytyrosol finished product with the content of 45%-50%, wherein the
mass of the obtained hydroxytyrosol finished product is 0.3%-0.8% of the
mass of the olive fruit
powder. The
acid hydrolysis method is adopted for extraction, compared with an
enzyme method, the production cost is low, the method is simple, convenient and easy to operate, the
sulfuric acid solution is used for
hydrolysis, the stability of the property of the
plant extract can be kept, and oxidative denaturation of hydroxytyrosol is prevented;
bacterial pollution in the extraction process is prevented; and the yield of hydroxytyrosol obtained by hydrolyzing
oleuropein in the fruits can be improved.