Rainbow Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat Pancake Experiment

Well, hi, Jeff Bland here. You know, it's holiday season. We're all experimenting with all sorts of interesting goodies. So I thought I'd do a little experiment today. Share with you. This is our new big bold health Himalayan Tarvy buckwheat pancake and waffle mix that we've been working on. And I'm very excited about this product. It's just add water, it's gluten free, it's dairy free, it's, you know, got a tremendous high concentration of these immune strengthening polyphenols from the Himalayan turbary buckwheat flour. So that is kind of the basis. But I want to do something interesting because we're all familiar with this concept of eating the rainbow. Eating the rainbow, you know, what is the rainbow? Those are agents that are in natural foods, particularly in vegetable products, fruits and vegetables that impart characteristics of color, meaning they have compounds within them that absorb light within the visible spectrum of the electromagnetic spectrum to give rise to the color of those products. And each of those colors are indicative of a unique phytochemical profile, meaning they have different structure and different function in the body. And so when we think of the rainbow, we're thinking of the blues or the reds or the oranges or the greens or the yellows all having different chemical compounds in them. These phytochemicals, all with different personalities, therefore they speak to our genes in different ways. And so eating the rainbow is eating a symphony of organisms, orchestrated information for our genes. And particularly we have found that many of these phytochemicals have immune activity, particularly the polyphenol and flavonoid family as we find in our Himalayan territory, buckwheat flower. So I thought, wouldn't be kind of cool, wouldn't it, to then go out after certain products that are known to be unique in their color that could then have impact upon the ultimate physiology or information that would be spoken to our genes by putting them within our Himalayan tari buckwheat pancake and waffle mix. So you could make this a colored symphony of different information for the body. So I chose a variety of different ingredients that I'm going to be playing with here. This is organic blue butterfly pea powder. Very beautiful blue color. This is, as you probably could see from the red color, the super color powder, red beet powder that has the beet concentrate. This is a very interesting product that we've been working with a lot recently because of its unique both flavor and compositional texture. This is purple sweet potato powder. Very Popular product from the Philippines. It has a unique flavor profile as well. And then this is a sakura cherry blossom powder with a beautiful pink color. So we have the pinks and the purples, the reds and the kind of blues, the brilliant blues, all of which we might blend together into our Himalayan Tartary buckwheat pancakes to produce a rainbow effect. So that's where we're going. Stay tuned and I'm going to share with you the outcome of this experiment. Well, now you can see I'm started down the path to put together the individual phytochemically enhanced formulations of our HTB Big bowl health pancake and waffle mix. So I just started with this and divided. Put a cup and divided it up into four different bowls so that I can test each one of these different phytochemical coloring agents. So first we'll start with the beet powder. It doesn't take much because this is. These are very strong colorant agents. So if we're trying to do this to be cosmetically attractive, you know, we don't want to get carried away. So we'll make this our. Our red version. Oh, yes. Oh, boy. It does that for sure. Yep. As you can see, that's definitely going to have a nice red texture to it. Okay, next we go to the organic blue butterfly pea. Oh, man, this is a gorgeous color in this. I can tell you that this will make something very interesting, that's for sure. So just a dabble, do you, here of the organic pea flower. And, oh, man, this, this, this definitely puts some phytochemicals in the visible spectrum into the. Into the product. Here we go. This. This beautiful blue color. Okay, next we're going to go with the sweet potato, this Filipino sweet potato that has this beautiful purple color to it. So again, about the same amount of the phytochemical flower blend. And we'll stir this one up. And oh, man, this is gonna produce something quite beautiful too. Wow. So this properly stirred, so we get it homogeneous. So that is producing a very interesting purple color, as you can see. And then lastly, but not least, we are going to go with the very interesting opportunities for our cherry blossom powder, which I think is a quite a remarkable product as well. So cherry blossom powder goes in there and, oh, this is a nice, beautiful pink color. So all of these are different phytochemicals. Right. That's what gives these products their. Their color. So we're getting a different symphony of orchestration from phytochemicals. I'm going to have to add a little bit more of this, obviously, because that's not nearly as strong. That's a very gentle color compared to the others as you might expect from a Japanese cherry blossom. So we'll add some more of this flower, this pink flower into this. Now, I have to say the pink flower doesn't look like it carries nearly the color characteristics that the other phytochemical rich flowers did. So we're not ending up with a pink because the flower is not white. So we end up with some kind of an intermediary color, unfortunately not clearly as visible. So now here we have it. We have our red, we've got our, oh, cyan, I guess we've got our purple. And unfortunately this was to be our pink, but it's not really pink. So now we're going to make some pancakes with this and see what our rainbow looks like. So hold tight. Next is cooking pancakes. Well, here we are. Drumroll time. I just got off the pancake griddle to see how this would all work out. Remember, we had the cherry blossom, we had the purple sweet potato powder flower, we had the organic blue butterfly pea flower, and we had the bee flower. And so here we go. It's probably not going to win the aesthetic award, but we certainly got some colors of the rainbow. The pink didn't come through too well. A little bit mellow. Overpowered by the Himalayan turkey buckwheat. The red came through pretty strongly from the beet. This was from the butterfly powder, and this one was from the sweet potato Filipino powder. So we really have a full orchestration of information here from phytochemicals in this unique holiday season green and red version of our Himalayan tarbey buckwheat pancakes. Thanks. I hope you found this interesting. Well, many of you asked, well, how do they taste? So here we are with our multi colored versions. And now we're going to try the taste. By the way, I've used this kind of non glycemic lakanto monk fruits maple syrup simile just as a, as a flavoring item. So just to let you know, here we go. So that was the beet. The beet was. Yeah, that's very good. Actually I can taste just a little bit of the beet flavor in there. Quite good. Okay, so here, this was our Filipino potato. Well, I can't. Doesn't have much flavor. Actually. It's pretty much like the original pancake flavor. Okay, here we go. This is the pink Japanese cherry blossom. Let's see what this one has. Any flavor? Oh, Boy. Yeah, that actually does add flavor. That's very nice. Okay, lastly, but not least is the purple pea powder it gave us. Wasn't really purple, but it's an interesting color. And, Yeah, that has a little bit. Has a little bit of a pee flavor to it, actually. So here we are. Pea. This is Filipino sweet potato. This is the beet, and this is the pink cherry blossom. Pretty fun, eh? Whole arrangement of orchestration of flavors and colors, all part of your holiday celebration. Thanks. Well, here I am once again just to see what it might look like after putting together 100 or so pounds worth of the new big bowl health pancake and waffle mix. This is my very neat end of the job and some samples of the product when I got it all put together here as our prototypes. I hope everybody will have a marvelous New Year's celebration. I hope you'll have some pancakes with htv. And look forward soon to us refining this new recipe for the very quick and easy Himalayan tartery, Buckwheat, Big bold health pancake and waffle mix. Thanks so much. It's been a lot of fun kind of putting this all together today.