7 Incredible Benefits of Blue Tea – People are Crazy Over This New Weight Loss Drink
There are green teas, black teas, and white teas and there are milk teas, herbal teas, jasmine teas, and even fennel teas. You may have also heard or had Oolong tea or Black Dragon tea. But is there a blue tea?
Yes. And it is time to sip some.
Sounds exciting? It is!
Blue tea is the newest drink for weight loss and anti-aging. Not just the taste, the sight of this tea is attractive too. A glass of cool blue drink on the table is surely going to catch the eye.
So, what’s this blue tea actually – some sort of magic, eh?
Read on to know better…
A tea made from pea
To be precise, blue tea is made from a perennial herbaceous plant of the Fabaceae family – Clitoria ternatea or Butterfly pea flower.
The plant is long been cultivated as a fodder and forage crop. It has a lot of potential in modern medicine and in agriculture, as it is a good source of antioxidants and can be used as a natural food colorant.
The flowers of this plant are dried as a whole and used tea leaves. They are free of caffeine. The flower is widely grown in South America, Central America, West Indies, East Indies, China, and India.
Tea made from butterfly pea flowers, popularly called blue tea due to its attractive blue color, is fast catching up with the modern generation.
And why not!
This tea is not only refreshing to the senses and appealing to the eyes but also high in taste and health benefits.
Why is blue tea stealing the limelight?
The following blue tea benefits make it a popular beverage:
- Blue tea is amazingly effective in weight loss thanks to the presence of catechins that facilitate fat burning, activate your metabolism, and encourage thermogenesis.
- Blue tea possesses anti-aging properties due to the high antioxidant content in the butterfly pea leaves. Do you know blue tea has higher antioxidants than that in green tea?
- It is a great stress buster.
- Blue tea helps to prevent type 1 diabetes due to the presence of polyphenols that regulate glucose metabolism in the body.
- Blue tea helps to prevent fatty liver by enhancing hepatic metabolism.
- Blue tea strengthens immunity and helps to keep the common cold at bay. This tea really should be a part of your tea drinking ritual in the Coronavirus era.
- Blue tea helps to burn cholesterol and enhance blood circulation. It helps to clean arteries and decreases the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
Precautions while drinking blue tea
Blue tea has tannins that can hinder iron absorption from food. That’s why you must drink this tea a minimum of one hour before or after eating a meal.
Take care to brew the tea in an earthen teapot instead of a metal one. This helps to retain the healing property of the tea.
Make your magic blue drink in minutes
- Boil some water. Pour in glass cups.
- Let the tea leaves steep in water until it attains a lovely blue color.
- Add some honey for sweetness.
- Add a few drops of lemon for added taste.
Sip!