The invention relates to a method for extracting a natural
flavor with
dimethyl ether, which comprises the following steps: making leaves, fruits, flowers and seeds of
aromatic plants into a pulp and freeze-
drying the pulp, or cleaning and
drying stems, barks and roots of
aromatic plants, and pulverizing and granulating; sending the freeze-dried material or pulverized and granulated material into an extraction tank, extracting to obtain an extracting solution by using
dimethyl ether as a
flavor extracting agent, filtering the extracting solution to remove granular impurities, pumping to an
evaporation tank, and separating the extracting solution under reduced pressure with a compressor; and carrying out rough separation on the residues after the separation under reduced pressure, carrying out fine separation with a molecular
distillation instrument, and distilling by 2-5 stages to obtain the aromatic
essential oil. The invention overcomes the defect of low efficiency in the traditional method and the defect of high cost in the supercritical method; the used
dimethyl ether extracting agent is odorless and smellless, so the invention has the advantages of no environment
pollution, low price and high extraction efficiency; and the obtained
plant essential oil is clear and transparent, contains little
wax, and overcomes the defects of
high water content, high
wax content and high oxidative deterioration tendency in the traditional
plant essential oil.