carotenoid was extracted by using a method of Kim Gerber(1988) with some modification. Twenty five milliliter juice was taken in a separation funnel for extraction using an equal volume of acetone for 3 times and filtered by Whatman paper No. 1, and the filter cake was re-extracted with methanol. Acetone-methanol extract was mixed vigorously with equal volume of petroleum ether. Upper petroleum ether layer dehydrated by adding anhydrous sodium sulfate in it and after filtration it was concentrated by using a rotary evaporator(Laborota 4000-efficient, Heidolph Instruments, Germany) at 30 ec. Acetonitrile-methanol-acetone solution(40:40:20, vlv) was added in the concentrate and stored in a dark at-18 ec for further analysis. Lutein was detected by a modified method of Kim and Gerber(1988) An Agilent 1100 series HPLC(Agilent Technologies, USA) consisted of a model G1379A degasser, a model G1311A pump, a model G1316A column oven and model G1315B diode array detection(DAD) system was used. Agilent Zorbax Eclipse xDB-c18 column(4.6 x 150 mm, 5 um particle size. USA) was used. The mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile- methanol-acetone(40:40:20, vlv) at a flow rate of 0.8 mLlmin and 20 HL injection volumes were used. Sample was filtered using a syringe filter of 0.45 um diameter before injection into column and the detection wavelength was 450 mm. Content of lutein was calculated from a linear portion of a calibration curve drawn up using commercial lutein as a standard compound