Butterfly pea flower powder, nature’s blue matcha — naturally vibrant with a striking pH-reactive colour shift.
Product Features
🎯 Usage Tips
Butterfly Pea Powder adds a unique, color-shifting effect to foods and drinks: its shades can change from blue to purple and even pink. With its neutral taste, it does not alter the original flavors of dishes or beverages, keeping the focus entirely on the colors.
Start with half a teaspoon of powder and gradually increase until you reach the desired color effect.
- Creative Drinks: tea, lemonade, smoothies, lattes, mocktails
- Colorful Foods: yogurt, chia pudding, desserts
- Baked Goods: muffins, breads, cakes
- Family-Friendly Dishes: coloring without altering taste
💡 Tip: It shows its most beautiful colors when dissolved in cold or lukewarm liquids.
♨️ Heat Sensitivity Note
The color of Butterfly Pea Powder holds well under heat, making it suitable not only for cold drinks but also for baked goods, cooked dishes, and pastries.
🫵 Recommended For
- Gastronomic use: chefs and creative kitchens
- Vegan lifestyle: 100% plant-based, free from animal ingredients
- Health-conscious consumers: natural color, free from artificial additives
- Family-friendly kitchens: playful, vibrant dishes and drinks
👉 Check out our recipe collection and discover more creative ways to use Butterfly Pea Powder!
🌱 Natural & Ethical Choice
Yes Superfood Butterfly Pea Powder is made exclusively from dried butterfly pea flowers, using a gentle processing method. It contains no artificial colorants, added sugar, flavor enhancers, preservatives, GMOs, or allergens.
It is 100% plant-based, vegan, and additive-free – a pure source of natural colors.
Butterfly Pea is a flowering plant traditionally used in Southeast Asian drinks, rice dishes and desserts. Its naturally colour-responsive pigments make it a distinctive ingredient for expressive food and drink.
Butterfly Pea Powder is also known as Blue Matcha because of its vivid blue colour. Despite the name, it is made from butterfly pea flowers, not green tea leaves.
A versatile blue botanical ingredient for signature lattes, desserts, cocktails, bakery creations and plated details.
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Ingredient
100% dried Butterfly Pea flower powder
Suggested use
Serving size: 1 tsp ≈ 2 g
Net weight
80 g per package
Shelf life
2 years from production date
Storage
Keep in a sealed container, in a cool, dry place, away from direct sunlight
Note: This is a natural coloring ingredient, not a medicine. When used as a dietary supplement, it does not replace a balanced, varied diet or a healthy lifestyle.
Allergen information: Although Butterfly Pea is 100% natural and free from known allergens by composition, individual sensitivities may occur. We recommend starting with a small amount to ensure your body responds well.
Butterfly Pea is native to Southeast Asia, and in Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia it has been part of cuisine and cultural traditions for centuries. Thanks to its vivid hue and color-shifting property, it has become an iconic ingredient in local drinks and dishes. In modern gastronomy, it stands as a symbol of visual creativity – natural, eye-catching, and inspiring.
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FAQs
Butterfly Pea (Clitoria ternatea) is a tropical climbing plant whose dried flowers are ground into butterfly pea powder. Native to Southeast Asia, it is especially widespread in Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia. The most valued part of the plant is its flower: the vivid blue petals have been part of local gastronomy and traditional Asian practices for centuries.
Butterfly Pea is valued not only for its striking appearance, but also for its natural property where the anthocyanins in the petals trigger color changes during use: in neutral or alkaline conditions it displays vibrant blue, while in acidic conditions (such as with lemon juice) it shifts to deep purple or pink hues.
Butterfly Pea flower powder owes its popularity in modern gastronomy to the way it combines:
- a vivid, natural color experience
- a neutral-tasting, calorie- and additive-free composition
- the playful visual effect of its color-changing properties
It dissolves easily in water, and thanks to its neutral taste, it can be widely used in beverages, desserts, baked goods, and even creative main dishes. As a dietary supplement, it not only adds color but also supports a varied and visually appealing diet built on natural ingredients.
Butterfly Pea Powder has a very mild, subtly earthy flavour with light floral notes. At typical colouring amounts, it doesn’t compete with the other flavours in your recipe — it’s used primarily for its colour, not its taste.
The vibrant blue colour comes from natural plant pigments called anthocyanins. When an acidic ingredient — like lemon juice, lime juice, or vinegar — is added, the pH shift causes the colour to move from blue towards purple, and with more acid, towards pink.
Start with a small amount (around ¼–½ teaspoon per cup of liquid) and adjust to your desired shade — the more powder you add, the deeper and more vivid the blue becomes.
