FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2008, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (9): 193-195.

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Study on Extraction of Lycopene from Watermelon with Supercritical CO2

 CHEN  De-Jing, HE  Sha   

  1. 1. Bio-resource Key Laboratory,Shaanxi University of Technology,Hanzhong 723000,China; 2. Department of Bioengineering,Shaanxi University of Technology,Hanzhong 723000,China
  • Online:2008-09-15 Published:2011-12-08

Abstract: In this study, the experimental results showed that under the supercritical CO2 extraction conditions of 30MPa, 55℃, 2h, CO2 flow rate 25L/h and ethanol as cosolvent,the total extraction rate of dried watermelon precipitate is 17.7%, and the content of lycopene is 29.73% .

Key words: supercritical fluid CO2, watermelon, lycopene