With the deepening of natural pigment health care function, tea anthocyanins have gradually been widely concerned. In this paper, the chemical structure and physicochemical properties of anthocyanins, the metabolic mechanism and enrichment characteristics of anthocyanins from tea buds, the qualitative and quantitative analysis methods of anthocyanins from tea, the separation and purification of anthocyanins from tea, the biological activity and products of anthocyanins development and other aspects of the review, for the anthocyanin ...