The invention provides a method for extracting
microcrystalline cellulose by taking mango leaves as a
raw material, and belongs to the technical field of
microcrystalline cellulose preparation, the method comprises the following steps: cleaning mango leaves,
drying, mixing with
chloroform, carrying out heat treatment, dewaxing, and crushing; carrying out alkali treatment and
acid hydrolysis on the dewaxed
raw material to remove
lignin and
hemicellulose in the
raw material; mixing a product obtained after acid-base
hydrolysis with a
sodium hypochlorite solution, and performing heat treatment bleaching; mixing the bleached product with a
hydrogen peroxide solution for heat treatment to improve the
crystallinity of the product; and spin-
drying the material after the reaction is finished, washing the material with water until the material is neutral, and then spin-
drying, freeze-drying and ball-milling and crushing the material to obtain the
microcrystalline cellulose product. According to the method for extracting the
microcrystalline cellulose from the mango leaves, provided by the invention, by optimizing dewaxing, delignification,
acid hydrolysis and bleaching processes and combining a mild
crystallinity enhancing step, efficient preparation of the
microcrystalline cellulose with high purity and high
crystallinity is realized.