This healing plant has many names: clitoria, anchan, Thai orchid. The raw materials for tea are flowers and leaves of butterfly pea - a climbing plant with blue or purple flowers.
The taste is light and herbal. Some will notice notes of boiled corn and fresh green peas. The aftertaste is quite long and sweet, refreshing.
Composition
Blue Thai tea contains a unique complex of biologically active compounds, a large number of vitamins and trace elements: Phosphorus, Iron, Manganese, Vitamin D, Vitamin K, Vitamin C, Zinc, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B2, Antioxidants.
How to brew blue tea
The water for brewing tea from anchan flowers should be boiled and then allowed to cool to 90 degrees. At this temperature, all the healing properties will be transferred to the drink. Dry flowers are brewed with hot water, but after a few seconds it is drained and then the tea is brewed again, let it brew for about 5 minutes. Lemon juice, honey or sugar can be added to the finished blue tea to taste.
