butterfly pea

UF Eyes Butterfly Pea as Natural Food-Color Source

Dan Florida, Industry News Release, Nursery Crops, Research

It provides a natural food coloring. It gives nurseries another ornamental to grow and sell, and it might provide health benefits to those who eat it with their food. It is the Butterfly Pea, and University of Florida researchers are studying the flower to see if it will grow in Florida. Much of what we eat every day contains added …