A method was developed to determine catechins,purine alkaloids and gallic acid in tea by HPLC-PDA.The optimum condition was achieved by separation on a Welchrom C18 column kept at 30 ℃ using phosphate buffer-acetonitrile as the mobile phase at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min through gradient elution and detection at 278 nm.This method showed a good linearity for all 12 tested compounds.The results demonst...