Description
Chiu Je Farm
🚚 The Fastest Delivery Time : 2-day delivery.
🐝 Supplier / Place Of Origin：Chiu Je Farm / Tai Po
🔖 Certification： Not Organic Certified
🌱 Producer Introduction：
Chiu Je organises parent-child day trips from time to time [May rice dumplings, glutinous rice magnets, strawberries, etc.]. The venue is mainly in Yuen Long. You can also in the field to pick corn or seasonal organic vegetables. According to the season, her old man will make salted tofu, tofu dessert, pizza, home-made tea fruit, radish cake and jam. Coupled with excellent craftsmanship and more and more consumers.
🌱 Supplier Products：
🛍 Product Information (Main) (English)：
Binomial Name：Clitoria ternatea
Chinese Name：蝶豆花 | 食用花
Other Names：Edible Flower - Butterfly Pea Flower
Product Description：The flower is used in desserts and for ornamental purposes in bouquets and wreaths. The most striking feature of this plant is the deep blue color of its flowers. Brewed in tea or used as a blue dye, butterfly pea flowers get their vibrant blue color from 10 times more anthocyanins than other plants. Butterfly pea flower is characterized by its bright bright blue petals and is often used as a natural food coloring agent. The roots, leaves, and stems of butterfly pea are often used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine, but for slightly different purposes.
There are very few places and wholesale suppliers to buy edible flowers in Hong Kong. Because Homegrown Foods is a long-term cooperative partner with organic farms, it can supply a series of flowers at the most favorable price. Edible flowers are wholesaled to customers; and in response to different seasons and months, we will provide suitable types of edible flowers for customers to choose from. Even for urgent customers, we have the opportunity to place an order today and deliver the edible flowers directly to the customer's address for delivery tomorrow.
Edible flowers are flowers that can be consumed safely. Flowers may be eaten as vegetables as a main part of a meal, or may be used as herbs. Flowers are part of many regional cuisines, including Asian, European, and Middle Eastern cuisines.
Variety：There are also white flower variants.
Supply Season：Only from April to December every year
Storage Method：Put it in the refrigerator and put it in a plastic bag or box. It can be stored for about three days. The temperature is 4 degrees and the humidity is 60 to 80 degrees.
#Should Be / Avoided：
Folk medicine
In Ayurvedic folk medicine, butterfly pea is used to enhance memory, treat anxiety, depression and act as a sedative. Traditional Chinese medicine does not use this medicine, so it has no obvious or special curative effect or effect. Butterfly pea flower is just a flower plant, and flower plants have the effect of soothing emotions, but it has no obvious weight loss effect. At the same time, it is also in line with the image of the oriental drug effect - it can affect female sexual desire, because its appearance is similar to female genitalia, but this statement has not been confirmed by rigorous scientific research.
Risk
Chemical compounds extracted from butterfly pea flowers include various triterpenoids, flavonol glycosides, anthocyanins, and steroids. At present, a cyclic peptide called butterfly pea peptide has been isolated from the heat-stable part of butterfly pea flower extract, but butterfly bean peptide has the effect of stimulating uterine contraction, so pregnant women should not eat butterfly pea flower.
*Edible Compatibility：
Cooking Skills：Culinary use
In Southeast Asia, the flower is used as a natural food colouring to colour glutinous rice and desserts like the Eurasian putugal as well as an Ayurvedic medicine. In Kelantan, in the north-east of peninsular Malaysia, it is an important ingredient in nasi kerabu, giving it its characteristic bluish colour. In Burmese and Thai cuisines, the flowers are also dipped in butter and fried. It is also used to colour the Nyonya dish Pulot tartal.
Butterfly pea flower tea is made from the ternatea flowers and dried lemongrass and changes color depending on what is added to the liquid, with lemon juice turning it purple. In Thailand and Vietnam, this butterfly blue pea flower tea is commonly mixed with honey and lemon to increase acidity and turn the beverage a pink-purple color, to produce for a drink usually served after dinner, or as a refreshment at hotels and spas. The drink is a typical local drink like chamomile tea is in other parts of the world. The tea is found in both hot and cold varieties.
The flowers have more recently been used in a color-changing gin. Blue in the bottle, it turns pink when mixed with a carbonated mixer such as tonic water due to the change in pH. As organic colours are not permanent, this type of gin is recommended to be stored in a dark place to maintain the effect.
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Notes：The color of butterfly pea tea will change according to the pH value of the added substances. For example, adding lemon juice will turn dark blue into purple.
Regardless of the type of edible flower, the source of the flower must first be known to ensure that it is not contaminated by pesticides. Secondly, after receiving edible flowers, the flowers must first be rinsed. If you buy edible flowers from us, you can eat them with peace of mind, because they are all organic. In addition, the shelf life of edible flowers is generally only 3-5 days, and it is recommended to use them as soon as possible after receiving them.
Dish：
Butterfly pea flower tea, commonly known as blue tea, is a caffeine-free herbal tea, or tisane, beverage made from a decoction or infusion of the flower.
Product Information (Supplement)：
Pre-order once a week. The supply depends on the delivery situation, or it will be shipped separately.
Pre -order once a week. The supply depends on the delivery situation, or it will be shipped separately.
Suggested Eating Method：
Butterfly bean flower tea usually adds honey, lemon together after dinner, or provided in hotels and SPA pavilions. Thai is known as Die Bean Water (Nam Dok Anchaan) is a kind of butterfly bean flower tea. It can drink cold and hot drinks, and drink it with honey, mint, cinnamon, ginger, passion fruit, etc. Essence It sometimes adds a drop of sweet labm juice (lemon) to increase acidity and turn the drink into a color between pink and purple.
In Southeast Asia, this flower is used as natural edible pigments, coloring glutinous rice and desserts, and Ayurveda drugs. In Malaysia, it is an important ingredient of coconut milk rice and gives them unique blue. In Myanmar and Thai food, flowers are also immersed in butter and fried. It is also used to color the Nyonya dishes.
Butterfly pea flower tea is made of jade and dried lemon grass. The color will change according to the ingredients added in the liquid, and lemon juice will turn it purple. In Thailand and Vietnam, this kind of butterfly blue pea flower tea is usually mixed with honey and lemon to increase acidity and turn the drink into pink purple. It is usually used for drinking after dinner, or as the hotel's refreshment and spa. This kind of drink is a typical local drink, just like chamomile tea in other parts of the world. This kind of tea has two types: hot tea and cold tea.
These flowers are recently used in Du Songzi wine. The bottle is blue. When the carbonated mixed with Tangli water is mixed, it will become pink due to changes in the pH value. Since organic pigments are not permanent, it is recommended to store such Du Songzi wine in dark places to maintain the effect.
This kind of flower can be used to dye natural fibers, and this flower in Asia also uses this flower to dye.
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