A gas chromatography- mass spectrometric（GC-MS） method was established to simultaneously detect 5 kinds of fruit preservatives including p-methyl hydroxybenzoate，p-ethyl hydroxybenzoate，ethyl naphthol，4-phenyl phenol and diphenyl ether.The samples were extracted with ether，concentrated by nitrogen blowing，and purified with activated carbon column.The analysis of target compounds was performed by GC-MS under the selected ion mode（SIM）,and quantified by the external standard method.Under the optimized conditions，the calibration curves of the 5 preservatives were linear in the range of 0.2-4.0 mg/L with correlation coefficients（r2） more than 0.991.The spiked recoveries ranged from 80.4% to 104.5% with relative standard deviations （RSDs） of 1.2%- 6.4%.The limit of detection of diphenyl ether was 0.05 mg/kg，and those of the other analytes were all 0.1 mg/kg.The method was simple，rapid and cheap，and the impurities like pigments in fruit samples could be diminished with activated carbon column.Therefore，the method was suitable for the determination of the 5 preservatives residues in fresh fruits with high sensitivity and selectivity.