A Review of the Production of Tea-Like Functional Beverages from Anthocyanin-Source Flower: Torenia Fournieri Flower and Butterfly Pea (Clitoria Ternatea) Flower

This review is about the potentiality of anthocyanin-source flower to produce functional beverages products in the form of tea-like beverages. As functional food is shortly defined as food that contains several health benefits containing in the materials, one of the examples are from anthocyanin. Anthocyanin that responsible for the blue and red color in several foods, is providing several health benefits, such as antioxidant, anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and many more. There is a lot of anthocyanin source product. But, anthocyanin stability is dependent on so many factors. From those conditions, an anthocyanin-source flower called Torenia fournieri seeks a vast potential. However, the characteristic of this flower, which gives colorless in pH 4 to 5, makes the product a little bit unattractive even though T. fournieri contains a lot of health benefits. Because of that, the blue color from the butterfly pea flower is a remarkable solution as the color remains blue in those pHs. With suitable drying conditions and processing, those tea-like beverages will have the potentiality to compete in the market.