The invention relates to the field of vegetable preservation, and discloses a preparation method of a volatile oil
preservative and application of the volatile oil
preservative in
artemisia selengensis preservation, and the method comprises the following steps: step 1, weighing waste leaves and stems of
artemisia selengensis, adding a
sodium chloride solution, crushing with a juicer, then transferring into a round-bottom flask, enabling the round-bottom flask to be hermetically connected with a volatile oil
steam distillation device to extract
artemisia selengensis volatile oil, receiving volatile oil by using a centrifugal tube, and transferring the upper layer
artemisia selengensis volatile oil by using a
pipette; and step 2, weighing a hydrophilic emulsifier
sucrose ester and
chitosan powder, slowly adding the hydrophilic emulsifier
sucrose ester and
chitosan powder into the
acetic acid solution, stirring while adding to avoid agglomeration, stirring at
room temperature until the hydrophilic emulsifier
sucrose ester and
chitosan powder are completely dissolved to form a transparent or slightly milky white solution, adding the extracted
artemisia selengensis volatile oil and
glycerol, stirring in a sealed manner at
room temperature, and degassing to obtain the
artemisia selengensis volatile oil
preservative. According to the method, a
closed loop of
waste recycling, preservative and homologous vegetable preservation can be realized, and the
shelf life of artemisia selengensis is prolonged; meanwhile, the artemisia selengensis volatile oil has a certain
compensation effect on the loss of the
flavor of the clean artemisia selengensis.