It can be used for both making the blue butterfly tea and also as a natural coloring for dishes. Blue Butterfly Pea Flower Powder & Extract:īlue butterfly pea flower powder got by grinding the dried flowers is also sold online. If you don’t have access to fresh blue butterfly pea flowers, you can easily order dried butterfly pea flowers through online shops like amazon. While buying them make sure they are not sprayed with pesticides. We can easily get them in flower markets.
In India, ready made butterfly pea tea is not common but butterfly pea flowers are commonly found everywhere.
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This tea is also good for hair and skin and if you are suffering from any kind of skin inflammation, please consume this tea for a few days. It helps treat respiratory problems like asthma, cold and cough and a warm cup of this tea when you are suffering from cold is like heaven! This tea also helps relieve stress, depression and anxiety, if you are feeling stressed or not able to sleep, try a cup of this tea before bed, it will help. Since it helps lower blood sugar levels, it is good for diabetic patients. This tea is a good remedy for stomach ulcer and it has a soothing effect on our stomach. Since we have this plant at home, I like to have a cup of this tea in midmorning to relieve fatigue especially if I am doing heavy work. When you drink blue butterfly pea tea, you will feel energised due to it’s high antioxidant content and it is a good remedy for fatigue.
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Nutrients:īlue butterfly pea flowers are rich in calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc, iron, manganese and sodium so this tea is very rich in vitamins and minerals too, this tea is also full of antioxidants! Blue Butterfly Pea Tea Health Benefits: Butterfly pea tea is so refreshing but has a very very subtle taste, we can only taste the lemon and honey in the tea mostly. I make the blue butterfly pea tea with both fresh and dried flowers. Blue Butterfly Pea Tea Taste:īlue butterfly pea tea has a very subtle earthy taste. This tea is very easy to make and can be served as a refreshing drink and I have to add, it looks stunningly beautiful if served in transparent glasses. Another beautiful thing about this tea is when we add lemon juice to the tea, the color changes! This is the reason the tea is also called color changing tea. Though it sounds childish, I love to watch the color of the tea change from purple to beautiful pink color after adding lemon juice to it, a must try tea in my humble opinion. Now you can make antioxidant tea all year round. In our farm, butterfly pea flowers grow in abundance so I collect it everyday till I have enough flowers, dry them and store for future use. The tea made with it not only looks beautiful (it has got a vivid blue color) but it is full of antioxidants too. Though you can make the tea with fresh flowers each time, I would suggest drying the flowers during summer time so you can use it year around. To dry, collect the flowers and spread it on a plate, cover with a thin mesh and sun dry till crisp and store.
When I wrote about butterfly pea planta few weeks back, I had mentioned about the butterfly pea tea in the post. One of my friends asked me to write in detail about butterfly pea tea so I thought I will give step by step instructions for making this wonderful tea (with 3 variations) along with the health benefits. The plant is a climber and it belongs to the family Fabacea and genus Clitoria. This plant has been used in Ayurveda for many years for treating many neurological problems like depression, anxiety and for improving memory. All parts of the plant including the leaves, seeds, roots and flowers have medicinal properties. The botanical name of blue butterfly pea plant is Clitoria Ternatea. Nowadays this amazing blue tea is gaining popularity all over the world due to it’s amazing medicinal uses. Blue butterfly pea tea is actually a native drink of South East Asian countries like Thailand and Vietnam made by boiling either the fresh blue butterfly pea flowers or dried blue butterfly pea flowers in water.
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