The invention discloses pectin and an extraction method and a preparation method thereof. The extraction method comprises the steps: adding organic weak acid salt into an acidic pectin extracting solution, uniformly mixing, carrying out membrane filtration on the extracting solution treated by the organic weak acid salt, carrying out alcohol precipitation or salting-out on the extracting solution,and separating to obtain the pectin, wherein the addition amount of the organic weak acid salt in the mixed solution is 0.2-1 mg/mL. Due to the fact that a proper amount of organic weak acid salt isadded before membrane filtration, pectin colloid is further stabilized, pectin is not prone to precipitation on the surface of a membrane during membrane concentration, meanwhile, pigments, saccharides, calcium, magnesium and other salts in the pectin can be removed, the membrane flux can be increased, and membrane pollution is effectively relieved. Besides, in the salting-out process, low-valencesalt can be used as a precipitating agent, complexing of high-valence cations in a salt solution and the pectin is avoided, pectin desalination is easy to carry out, and thus the problems that pectinis low in extraction rate, heavy in color and low in purity are solved, and the ash content of the pectin is not high.