The invention provides a method for extracting active ingredients from tangerine seeds. The method comprises the following steps of: crushing the tangerine seeds, performing supercritical extraction of tangerine oil, performing immersion and homogenizing treatment on oil-removed tangerine seed residue, performing centrifugal separation on the homogenate, performing ultra-filtration treatment on supernate A, and performing affinity chromatography on filtrate and the like to finally obtain limonin with high purity and other active ingredients such as acidic limonin aglycon, nomilin, neutral limonin aglycon (containing no limonin or nomilin) and the like extracted from the waste tangerine seeds so as to realize comprehensive utilization of a tangerine seed resource. The method has high yield, the consumption of an organic solvent is greatly reduced in the extraction process, the flammable and combustible problems caused by extraction with the organic solvent are avoided, the production cost is reduced, and the environmental pollution is reduced.