The invention discloses a method for
drying honeysuckles. The method includes placing screened fresh honeysuckles into color-protecting solution; laying the honeysuckles on stainless steel screen cloth after the color-protecting solution on the honeysuckles is drained, and placing the stainless steel screen cloth in a
drying chamber of a
heat pump drying machine; setting the temperature of the drying chamber at 40-60 DEG C, setting an air speed of the drying chamber at 1-2.5m / s and setting the concentration of
oxygen in the drying chamber at 5-21%; filling the drying chamber with
nitrogen for 3-5 minutes at intervals of 20-30 minutes in drying procedures, keeping the required concentration of the
oxygen in the drying chamber unchanged, and drying the honeysuckles for 6-10 hours to obtain the honeysuckles which are dried by the aid of heat pumps; placing the screen cloth with the honeysuckles into a
microwave generator after the honeysuckles are dried by the aid of the heat pumps, and drying the honeysuckles by the aid of microwaves until the
moisture contents of the honeysuckles are lower than or equal to 12%; spreading the honeysuckles in cool, clean and ventilation positions to temper the honeysuckles; loading the honeysuckles in compound zip-lock bags, and filling the insides of the bags with
nitrogen so that the concentration of
oxygen in each bag is lower than or equal to 5%. The drying chamber of the
heat pump drying
machine is preheated for at least 30 minutes before the stainless steel screen cloth is placed in the drying chamber. The method has the advantages that a manufacturing process is simple, the cost is low, and the quality of products are stable; a brightness value L of the honeysuckles manufactured by the method is larger than 60, the total
phenol content of the honeysuckles is higher than 0.5%, a
chlorogenic acid loss rate is lower than 20%, and the method has obvious merits, an important application prospect and high popularization utilization value.