Red cabbage anthocyanins: Profile, isolation, identification, and antioxidant activity

► Red cabbage anthocyanin profile consisting of twenty cyanidin glucoside derivatives ► Nonacylated cyanidin-3-diglucoside-5-glucoside was a major anthocyanin in red cabbage. ► Red cabbage is rich in acylated anthocyanins ► Cyanidin-3(sinapoyl)(sinapoyl)diglucoside-5glucoside had the highest antioxidant activity. ► The kind of acylation affected the antioxidant activity of acylated anthocyanins.