Blue Tea Recipe| Butterfly Pea Tea Nutrition

Blue Tea Recipe:

Blue tea recipe & health benefits- What is the right way to prepare & what is the right frequency to consume butterfly pea tea. This blog article is going to be about the blue variant of Sangu Poo. You can find the optimal intake suggested and the recipe with health benefits. This is actually an extract or concoction & what is makes an ideal healthy drink is that it is non-caffeinated. Kindly read the nutritional benefits for more information.

Blue Tea Recipe

What is Butter-Fly pea? It is a creeper flowering plant (Clitoria ternatea) found in most households of Tamil Nadu. In Tamil, it is called the Sangu pushpam. We get two variants namely white & indigo.

What is Blue Tea? The concoction or tea is prepared with the flowers of the butterfly pea and is extremely nutritious because of the antioxidants contents.

The hibiscus sherbet recipe is a precursor behind this recipe. Since I am a no tea-coffee person, these concoctions or juices help a lot with my energy levels. Now let’s get into the recipe.

Ingredients:

• Butterfly Pea Flower- 6-8
• Water-1 cup

Blue Tea Recipe

Procedure:

1.Wash the flowers well.

2.Boil the water and pour it into a bowl.

3.Now add the flowers to it.

4.Leave it for 5 minutes.

5.Blue tea is ready.

How to make purple tea?

You can add a drop of lemon juice & the concoction turns purple

Notes:

Don’t boil the flowers with water.

The taste is slightly earthy.

Don’t consume this more than thrice a week.

This is as per the recommendation from my medico brother (Siddha).

You can take it either early in the morning or as an energy boost drink in mid-morning.

I strongly recommend using fresh flowers or dried flowers from your home garden & not from any packets.

Health Benefits:

The colour of the flower is because of the anthocyanins which are present in the flowers. They contribute to the antioxidant properties too.

Help in

• Controlling Type 2 diabetes
• Reduction of Coronary Heart disease
• Prevention of Cancer
• Slowing down of aging
  .
  The flowers are natural substances to reduce blood glucose levels and help prevention of liver & renal damages.

 

1. The extracts exhibit diuretic, nootropic, antiasthmatic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, antidiabetic, antilipidemic, anti-arthritic, antioxidant, and wound healing properties as per several types of research conducted.
2. The whole flower has a lot of medicinal properties.
3. It is an anti-depressant and helps in curing mental health problems.
4. Blue tea can be your energy drink on a day when you are extremely fatigued.
5. This can aid your weight loss journey and help in healthy hair.

References:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abdullah-Marpaung/publication/331137443_The_Appropriate_Way_to_Serve_Butterfly_Pea_Flower_Drink_at_Home/links/5c6e71b992851c1c9df1b0f1/The-Appropriate-Way-to-Serve-Butterfly-Pea-Flower-Drink-at-Home.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6546959/

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2019/2916914/

Disclaimer:

This piece of information is not equivalent to any medical professional’s advice. This is shared from my knowledge, experience, learning & study