China Butterfly Pea Blue Powder Color - Quality Suppliers and Factory for Natural Food Colorants
Overview & Origin
Butterfly pea flowers are purple-blue butterfly-shaped flowers. It is a typical tropical vine plant that blooms all year round, it is rich in vitamins A, C, and E, especially the anthocyanin content is 12 times that of blueberry, 8 times that of black goji berry, and 20 times that of grape seed extract. Its calyxs can be used to make food coloring.
Extraction & Chemical Properties
Butterfly pea blue powder is extracted from the calyx of butterfly pea, and is a kind of anthocyanin natural color. The final product is bluish violet and blue powder, easily soluble in water, but insoluble in oil. The color shade and stability are affected by pH. Under acid and neutral conditions, the color shade is blue-purple, and blue, under alkali, the color shade is unstable blue-green.
Easily soluble in water, but insoluble in oil.
Acidic & Neutral: blue-purple and blue. Alkali: unstable blue-green.
Health & Nutritional Value
Butterfly pea blue powder is rich in vitamins and anthocyanins, which can improve immunity, help promote skin elasticity and collagen production, and have antioxidant effects. Butterfly pea blue powder can enhance the nutritional value of food while dyeing it. The high content of anthocyanins can significantly enhance vision and eliminate eye fatigue. It can improve immunity, help and promote skin elasticity and collagen, and also can tonify the brain and promote brain vitality.
Industrial Applications
Nowadays, butterfly pea blue powder can be widely used in the preparation of wine, fruit juice, drinks, biscuits, ice cream, noodles, candy, cans, and pharmaceutical and cosmetic fields.