Extraction Study on Mulberry Red Pigment with Resin

The method for extracting mulberry red pigment from mulberry juice by resin was studied in this paper. The resultsshowed: adsorption capacity of AB-8 resin for mulberry red pigment was 66.15mg/ml wet resin. The optimum conditions of adsorptionwere: temperature 50℃ and pH2.00. All mulberry red pigment that had been adsorbed by AB-8 resin was eluted at room tempera-ture with pH1.5 and 50% alcohol at the flow rate of 0.5BV/h. After ten times of elution, the exchange capacity was only decreasedby 2.6%. The pigment produced by this technological process was purplish dark powder, and the chromosphere was nearly tentimes stronges than that of National Criteria. The yield was 0.88%.