The invention provides a method for extracting and detecting
organic acid in tea leaves, and belongs to the technical field of food detection. The invention provides a method for extracting
organic acid in tea leaves, which comprises the following steps: pretreating the tea leaves to obtain
tea leaf freeze-dried
powder; performing
alkaline hydrolysis extraction on the tea freeze-dried
powder to obtain an extracting solution; and adjusting the extracting solution to be acidic, and then carrying out back extraction to obtain the
organic acid. The method is simple and convenient to operate and mild in reaction condition,
oxidative degradation of the organic acid in the extraction process can be effectively avoided, the detection variety of the organic acid is increased by arranging the reasonable extracting agent and extraction steps, the conversion rate and extraction efficiency of the organic acid are remarkably improved, and the stability and
repeatability of a detection result are guaranteed. Liquid
chromatography-
tandem mass spectrometry detection is utilized, qualitative and quantitative analysis is achieved through an external standard method, 26 organic acids in tea can be detected at the same time, and the method has the advantages of being short in time consumption, multiple in items, high in stability, wide in application range and the like.