Butterfly Blue Pea flowers is a plant selected by HAK based on our direct involvement with the planting, harvesting and drying these miracle power food in Borneo.
Butterfly Blue Pea flower also known as Asian Pigeonwings and Darwin Pea is a plant that grows as a vine or creeper. It is a native plant to equatorial Asia including Borneo.
The distinct feature of this plant is the color of its flowers – deep cobalt blue shade with light sunshiny yellow and white markings. As such it is often use in the culinary world as natural coloring for food and beverages.
In Malaysia for example, the Butterfly Blue Pea flowers is used in traditional food like Nasi Kerabu/ulam for blue rice, or in the Nyonya cuisine to color glutinous rice and traditional desserts or simply to make magical color changing lemonade or herbal tea! HAK uses this Butterfly Blue Pea powder as one of the main ingredients for our Nasi Ulam Lunch meals.
In addition to that the Butterfly Blue Pea flowers is not only pleasing for the eyes to see but also packed with antioxidant properties. Studied have indicated that the Butterfly Blue Pea flowers imparts health benefits which includes promotion of weight loss, immune boosting properties, improvement in cognitive abilities.
By purchasing the butterfly blue flowers and powder from HAK, you contribute directly to reforestation efforts at Bukit Piton in Malaysian Borneo for orangutan habitat and improving forest ecosystem.
