Butterfly Pea Flower Tea

The butterfly pea flower is rich in many antioxidants and it is especially rich in anthocyanin, an antioxidant responsible for it's colour wizardry. Butterfly pea flowers have been used for centuries for their benefits. Aside from their distinctive blue hue and magical colour-changing properties, butterfly pea flowers offer a numerous nutritional benefits. The flowers are praised for their calming and memory-boosting effects, improving skin and hair health, stabilizing blood sugar levels, improving eyesight, supporting reproductive health as well as many other health benefits.  

This tea can also be prepared as a topical hair tea & applied directly to the hair & scalp. It’s known to enhance hair colour, prevent hair loss, add moisture & shine & so much more. 

You can add a bit of lemon juice, lime juice, or honey to ramp up the flavor. Butterfly pea flowers are pH sensitive so citrus will turn the beautiful blue hue to a purple  

Instructions

Serving size: 1/2 tsp per cup

Steeping temperature: 100°C

Steep time: 5 minutes 

Flavour: floral, mildly sweet flavor, somewhat similar to that of chamomile or light green tea. 

Each bag contains 50 grams