Citrus fruits such as orange, grapefruit, lemon and other citrus fruit are widely cultivated and processed generating large amounts of by-products. Citrus peels contain various compounds of economic importance such as volatile oils, flavonoids, polyphenols, carotenoids etc. It is essential to valorize the wastes of citrus processing. In this purpose, peels of orange, grapefruit and lemon, fresh and dried were subjected to extraction using trichloromethane and dichloromethane as extracting agents and analyzed by thin layer chromatography on silica gel plates. Visualization at 366 nm and 254 nm showed a complex composition of extracts that contain terpenes, oxygen heterocyclic substances derivatives of coumarin and carotenoids. The UV-VIS spectra of the extracts were recorded showing absorption in UV and Visible region.