An effective high performance liquid chromatographic(HPLC) method was developed for the determination of three curcuminoids，e.g.curcumin(CurⅠ)，demethoxycurcumin(CurⅡ) and bisdemethoxycurcumin(Cur Ⅲ)，in food.The analytes were extracted from homogenised samples using methanol，and separated on a YMCTM Carotenoid column(250 mm×4.6 mm，5 μm) by using methanol-water(A) and methyl teritary butyl ether(B) as mobile phase.The influences of experimental conditions were investigated.Under the optimal conditions，the calibration curves were linear in the range of 0.5-100 μg/mL，with correlation coefficients of 0.997 7-0.999 8.The average recoveries at spiked concentration range of 10-100 mg/kg ranged from 72.2% to 102% with relative standard deviations of 3.4%-13.8%.The limits of detection(LOD) of curcumin，demethoxycurcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin were 6，5 mg/kg and 5 mg/kg，respectively.This method is suitable for the determination of curcuminoids in food.