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butterfly pea flower seed Butterfly Pea Flower Tea, Whole Dried, COA-Verified Blue Tea 1 LBSButterfly Pea Flower Tea: The Blue Bloom That Changes Color in Your Cup Butterfly Pea Flower (Clitoria ternatea) is the legume family blossom prized across Southeast Asia for its deep cobalt blue hue. Steep these whole dried flowers in hot water and the brew turns a vivid blue. Add a squeeze of lemon or lime and watch it shift to violet, then magenta. That is a real pH reaction driven by anthocyanin pigments inside the petal, not a dye and not a
Butterfly Pea Flower Tea: The Blue Bloom That Changes Color in Your Cup
🌿 Butterfly Pea Flower (Clitoria ternatea) is the legume-family blossom prized across Southeast Asia for its deep cobalt-blue hue. Steep these whole dried flowers in hot water and the brew turns a vivid blue. Add a squeeze of lemon or lime and watch it shift to violet, then magenta. That is a real pH reaction driven by anthocyanin pigments inside the petal, not a dye and not a gimmick.
Brewed clean, the flavor is delicate and earthy, not floral or sweet. Our in-house tasting panel notes Button Mushroom, Squid Ink, and Sugar Snap Pea, which is why this flower works so well as a blender base. It carries lemongrass, ginger, mint, hibiscus, and honey without fighting them, and it gives bartenders a stable natural pigment that does not muddy a cocktail.
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Every lot we ship gets a third-party Certificate of Analysis. The COA confirms botanical identity and screens for heavy metals, pesticide residues, and microbial contamination, so you have a paper trail tied to the exact batch in your hands. We publish each batch's results on a dedicated historical Butterfly Pea Flower COA page, and if you are new to reading lab reports our plain-language guide to reading a COA will walk you through what to look at first.
How People Use These Flowers
🫖 Hot & iced blue tea
About one tablespoon of whole dried flowers per 8 oz of hot (not boiling) water. Steep 5 to 7 minutes. The brew goes deep cobalt-blue. Pair with our loose leaf tea collection for blends.
🍸 Color-changing cocktails
A bartender's natural pigment. Cold-infuse the flowers in gin, vodka, or simple syrup overnight. Acid (citrus) shifts blue to violet to magenta in real time at the rim of the glass.
🍚 Natural culinary color
Used traditionally in Thai and Malay kitchens to color rice (nasi kerabu), dumplings, and desserts. Caffeine-free, gluten-free, dairy-free. Steep the flowers, then strain and cook with the blue liquid.
🌸 Blends for daily ritual
Sits well in antioxidant-forward herbal blends alongside hibiscus, rose hips, and lemon balm. Easy on the palate, easy on the eyes.
Product Specifications
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| Botanical Name | Clitoria ternatea |
| Common Name | Butterfly Pea Flower, Asian Pigeonwings, Blue Pea |
| Format | Whole dried flowers |
| Available Weights | 1/2 lb, 1 lb |
| Tasting Notes | Button Mushroom, Squid Ink, Sugar Snap Pea |
| Grade | Premium (food-grade) |
| Testing Status | COA-verified, per lot |
| Origin | Thailand (partner farm, COA-verified) |
Safety, Cautions & Traditional Use
Butterfly Pea Flower has a long history of culinary and tea use across Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and in Ayurvedic tradition, where it is known as Aparajita. In typical tea quantities (roughly 1 to 2 cups per day) it is well tolerated by most healthy adults.
Use cautiously or consult a qualified practitioner first if you:
- Are pregnant, trying to conceive, or breastfeeding. Traditional texts associate Clitoria ternatea with uterine-stimulant activity and human safety data in pregnancy is limited.
- Take blood-thinning or antiplatelet medication (warfarin, clopidogrel, aspirin therapy). Preliminary research suggests possible antiplatelet activity.
- Take blood-pressure-lowering or blood-sugar-lowering medication. The flower may mildly amplify both effects.
- Have a known allergy to legumes (pea, soy, peanut). Clitoria ternatea is a member of the Fabaceae (legume) family.
- Are scheduled for surgery within two weeks. Discontinue use beforehand as a precaution.
Traditional usage guidance: start with a single cup per day for the first week and assess tolerance before increasing. High-dose extracts and concentrated tinctures are a separate category and are not covered by these tea-quantity notes.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Consult a qualified healthcare practitioner before adding any new botanical to your routine, especially if you are pregnant, nursing, on prescription medication, or managing a health condition.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does butterfly pea flower tea actually change color, or is that a marketing trick?
It is genuine pH chemistry, and I get asked this constantly. The blue color comes from anthocyanin pigments inside the petals, the same family of compounds that make red cabbage and elderberries shift color in acidic water. Brew the flowers and you get a stable cobalt-blue cup. Add a squeeze of lemon or lime and within a second or two the cup turns violet, then deepens toward magenta as more acid hits it. Hit it with something alkaline like a pinch of baking soda and it swings green. Nothing about this is dye or food coloring, it is the same plant chemistry happening live in your glass.
How do I brew the best blue tea from these whole dried flowers?
My standing recipe: roughly one tablespoon of whole flowers per 8 ounces of hot water that has come off the boil for about 30 seconds (around 200°F). Steep 5 to 7 minutes, longer if you want a saturated cobalt color for a cocktail base. Strain. The flavor is delicate and earthy with notes of button mushroom, squid ink, and sugar snap pea, so I lean on it as a base rather than a stand-alone tea. It loves lemongrass, ginger, mint, hibiscus, and a small spoon of honey. For iced or for cocktail work, cold-brew the flowers in cool water or spirits overnight in the fridge for a cleaner, more vivid pigment with no astringency.
How do I know what's actually in the bag I'm buying?
Every lot we sell carries a third-party Certificate of Analysis that screens for botanical identity, heavy metals, pesticide residues, and microbial contamination. The full historical list of batch COAs for this product lives on our Butterfly Pea Flower COA page, so you can match the batch in your hands against its own paperwork. If you have not read a lab report before, our plain-language COA guide walks through which numbers matter and which are noise.
Is it safe to drink butterfly pea flower tea every day?
For most healthy adults, daily tea-quantity use (one to two cups a day) is well tolerated. The populations I tell clients to pause and check with a practitioner first are anyone pregnant, trying to conceive, or breastfeeding, anyone on blood thinners or antiplatelet medication, anyone on blood-pressure or blood-sugar-lowering medication, and anyone with a known legume allergy. If you fall outside those buckets, my advice is simple: start with one cup a day for the first week, see how you respond, then build from there. Concentrated extracts and tinctures are a different conversation from a tea brewed from whole flowers.
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