Colour Changing Lemonade 🩷💜💙 Recipe

Mary Draper
Aug 26
1 min read

It goes by many names: Magic Lemonade, Galaxy Lemonade or Mermaid Lemonade, and it involves adding blue matcha/butterfly pea flower tea to lemonade. The anthocyanin pigments in the blue matcha are blue in alkaline/basic environments, but turn purple, then pink in more acidic environments such as lemonade!! It appears as magic, but it’s chemistry!

Short video here: https://youtube.com/shorts/HJwMQCqlOOw?feature=share

For 2 Servings

Magic Ice:

►1 tsp blue matcha (butterfly pea flower powder)

►1 cup water

►Mix and freeze into ice cubes, once frozen, crush into small pieces

Lemonade:

►Heat 1/4 cup water with 1/4 cup sweetener of choice (maple syrup/honey/sugar sub like allulose) until dissolved

►Add 1/2 cup lemon juice (about 2-3 lemons), 2 cups water

Magic Lemonade:

►Add regular crushed ice to a glass

►Add magic ice to the glass

►Carefully pour in your lemonade using a spoon to deflect the pour, and reduce colour mixing

►Stir to activate colour change

►Enjoy!

Alternate Method: you can skip the magic ice, and just pour the blue matcha tea into the top of your ice-filled lemonade, then stir to activate the colour change.

BONUS: beside the fun colour changing properties, blue matcha contains powerful antioxidants & studies have shown it to have incredible health benefits from supporting healthy vision, skin & hair, to improving blood sugar levels & metabolism, and lowering blood pressure, and preventing neurological disease.

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