Abstract: | Chicken egg contains a high level of phospholipids (PL) in the yolk. Recovering yolk total lipids and extracting egg PL with efficiency are important to the availability and utilization of these health‐promoting lipid products. In this study, we prepared two structured dry egg yolk materials and used two common solvents to extract and concentrate the PL. We found that drum‐dried flake‐like yolk is an ideal starting material for lipid extraction. Anhydrous ethanol can extract almost all the neutral lipids and PL. PL with purity over 90% can be prepared by cold acetone precipitation from the total lipids. |