In order to study effective extracting conditions,pigment components extracted from naturally brown cotton with an ethanol/water solution system were investigated.The ratio of ethanol to water solution had significant influence on the pigment components extracted from naturally brown cotton.It is showed that the components with a retention time of 1-5 rain was easily separated,while those with the retention time of 7-17 min was hard to be separated.The pigments in naturally brow cotton are strongly hydrophilic and extracting efficiency of the pigments is very low if over 90%ethanol/water solution is used,which is not suitable for the pigment extraction.While 0%ethanol solution was suitable for extraction of components with the retention time of 1.4 min,30%ethanol solution was suitable for extraction of components with the retention time of 1.7 min,2.2 min and 9.6 min,and 50%ethanol solution was suitable for extraction of components with the retention time of 14.6 min.
naturally brown cottonpigment of brown cottonethanol/water solutionhigh performance liquid chromatography