Method for preparing lycium barbarum lutein by HSCCC (high-speed countercurrent chromatography) separation

The invention discloses a method for preparing lycium barbarum lutein by HSCCC (high-speed countercurrent chromatography) separation. The method mainly comprises the following steps: grinding and extracting lycium barbarum berry, concentrating extract, saponifying, eluting and dissolving, and carrying out HSCCC separation to obtain a lycium barbarum lutein solution; concentrating, and freeze-drying to obtain a lutein pure product of which the purity is over 90.6 percent by means of HPLC analysis and detection. According to the method, a methanol and tetrahydrofuran composite solvent is adopted for ultrasonic extraction, and a saponification technology is combined and synergized with HSCCC, so that the problem that main carotinoid lutein and zeaxanthine in lycium barbarum belong to isomers and are difficult to separate can be successfully solved; autumn berry of lycium barbarum is utilized as a raw material, so that the production cost is greatly reduced, effective separation of lutein and zeaxanthine can be successfully realized by repeatedly regulating the solvent proportion in the counter-current chromatography separating and purifying phase, a high-purity lutein monomer can be obtained, and a new thought is provided to implementation of separating and purifying lutein from lycium barbarum and implementation of industrial production.