The invention belongs to the technical field of
natural product extraction from oranges, and specifically relates to a method for continuously extracting natural activated products such as
synephrine,
hesperidin and
limonin from physiological orange drops. The method comprises the following steps: using orange drops which are dried and crushed into 20-100 meshes as raw materials, adding 50-90%
ethanol according to a weight / volume ratio of (1:10)-(1:50), extracting under
reflux at 40-80 DEG C for 1-3 hours, filtering, recovering
ethanol from the filtrate, and obtaining a concentrated solution for later use; adding a small number of
chloroform crystals into the concentrated solution, adding water for layering, directly heating the
water layer to 75 DEG C, filtering, adding 0.1mol / L
hydrochloric acid to regulate the pH value to 3-4, and precipitating to obtain a
hesperidin crude product; carrying out spin
drying on the obtained
chloroform layer solution, adding a right number of
acetone crystals, and carrying out
vacuum drying to obtain a
synephrine crude product; and carrying out spin
drying on the
acetone solution after the
crystal filtration, adding
dichloromethane for
dissolution, filtering, adding isopropanol into the solution according to a volume ratio of 1:2, and crystallizing to obtain a
limonin crude product. Qualitative and quantitative analysis are carried out on the three resulting activated products through high-pressure liquid
chromatography, and the result shows that the
hesperidin has the highest purity (91.41%).