Japanese crossword «Butterfly Pea Tea»
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Butterfly pea tea has an interesting feature - it changes color when in contact with lemon juice. Usually it has a sky-blue hue, but if you add lemon, the color gradually changes first to blue, then to eggplant. It was not possible to depict a lemon on this scale, so the yellow stripe at the bottom of the cup is lemon juice.
Sorry for my bad English, I use translator
Sorry for my bad English, I use translator
Never heard of this,
So we get to solve an interesting puzzle and learn something new.
Thanks.
replySo we get to solve an interesting puzzle and learn something new.
Thanks.
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"Butterfly pea flower tea, commonly known as blue tea, is a caffeine-free herbal beverage made from decoction or infusion of the flower petals or whole flower of the Clitoria ternatea plant, alternatively known as butterfly pea, Aprajita, Asian pigeonwings, blue pea, Blue Tea Flowers, or Cordofan pea." Wikipedia
We're talking about peas, and the yellow represents lemon, not the homonym for pea!
We're talking about peas, and the yellow represents lemon, not the homonym for pea!
Such an interesting story...I am a gardener and will be searching out butterfly peas now...not something I've heard of living in the US --or when I was in Asia years ago! Thank you, Ceresriel!
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See the info I posted above in response to Fivepoint.
I've got some of the tea -- found it locally -- and it's lots of fun but not particularly tasty.
And with my history of trying to grow peas, whether the edible ones or the scented sweet peas, I'm not going to put any effort into finding this one! (The slugs and pill bugs love the former, and the latter... Well... Once it finally developed a robust above-ground mass, it was all vines and leaves and very few flowers.)
I've got some of the tea -- found it locally -- and it's lots of fun but not particularly tasty.
And with my history of trying to grow peas, whether the edible ones or the scented sweet peas, I'm not going to put any effort into finding this one! (The slugs and pill bugs love the former, and the latter... Well... Once it finally developed a robust above-ground mass, it was all vines and leaves and very few flowers.)
