Tapioca

Categories: Food
    • Popular uses: Pudding, tea, thickening agent
    • Boba (bubble tea): Popular tapioca drink
    • Brazil: Nutritional supplement for invalids
  • Tapioca is a starchy ingredient made from cassava roots. It is used in cooking and beverages.
  • Boba Fast Facts

    1. Made from tapioca starch
    2. Texture: Like gummi bears
    3. Flavored with sugar
    4. Used in tea
    5. Boba tea origin: Taiwan, 1980s

  • Tapioca Starch Fast Facts

    1. White flour from cassava root
    2. Gluten-freee
    3. Good substitute for cornstarch

  • Cassava Fast Facts

    1. Latin name: Manihot esculenta
    2. Also called: Yuca, manioc
    3. Native to South America
    4. Root size: Up to two feet
    5. Leaves: Inedible when raw
    6. Raw cassava root may contain cyanide
    7. Contains more Carbohydrates than almost any food plant

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