| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for industrially efficiently producing high-purity lycopene, and to provide applications thus obtained high-purity lycopene. SOLUTION: This method for producing high-purity lycopene is characterized by comprising the steps of centrifuging a tomato treated product, putting the liquid portion to microfiltration, drying the resultant non-filtered product, washing the dried product with a 50-100 wt.% polar solvent, dissolving thus washed dried product in a nonpolar solvent followed by recrystallization, and washing the resultant crystallized product with a polar solvent followed by drying. The other objective application of thus obtained high-purity lycopene is preferably an anti-cataract agent. |
