Blue butterfly pea flower also popularly called aparajita and sangu poo in India is a must know flower for it’s wonderful health benefits and medicinal uses. Butterfly pea flower tea made from the flowers is quite famous all over the world, it has a beautiful blue color and is full of antioxidants. From reducing inflammation and ulcer to preventing fatigue, blue butterfly pea flower does have wide benefits. Learn about the blue butterfly pea, a plant with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer properties. Find out how to make blue butterfly pea tea and what are the side effects and comparisons with other herbal teas. The taste of butterfly pea flower tea is often described as bland umami with a flavour of grass, but some people find it tastes like pea water, while others find the taste very similar to cardboard. Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species. Peas are eaten as a vegetable. Carl Linnaeus gave the species the scientific name Pisum sativum in 1753 (meaning cultivated pea). Some sources now treat it as Lathyrus oleraceus; [1][2] however the need and justification for the change is disputed. [3] The name "Pea" is also used to describe other edible seeds from the Fabaceae such as the pigeon pea ...
