No, but i wouldn't recomend eating flour.
You can use tapioca flour in some cookie recipes. It does not act like wheat flour, so only use tapioca flour if the recipe specifically says to.
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Yes! in many recipes!
Tapioca does not have grains in it. Tapioca is a by-product of manioc flour which comes from the roots of the cassava plant.
A good substitute for corn flour if is being used for thickening, is potato starch. You can also use regular flour that has been mixed and cooked with a small amount of butter in a skillet beforehand.
When making Sorghum
You can use 4 teaspoons of quick cooking tapioca OR 1 tablespoon corn starch in place of 2 tablespoons flour for thickening.
You can cook cookies without flour. The recipe may call for a different type of flour, such as rice flour or tapioca flour.
No, they are not the same. They are both starches and can be used as thickening agents, but they come from different plants. Each has different thickening capabilities and they have different flavors.
The white membrane you get when you cook a mixture of rice and wheat flour, water and tapioca appears because of the starch contained in the dry ingredients.
About .84 of a cup would equal 100 grams of tapioca flower.