Tapioca

Tapioca is a tuber crop and mainly found/consumed in Kerala and southern part of Tamil Nadu. In Malayalam (Kerala) it is known by different names like "Kappa", 'Chini", "Marachini" etc. and Tamil (TN) it is known as "Maravalli" or "Maravalli Kizhangu". It's full of starch/energy giving and well accepted by the working peasants. Different forms of tapioca products/disches are available like, tapioca chips, tapioca finger chips, tapioca pappad - its very famous in southern most Kerala, tapioca uppuma, tapioca halwa, tapioca based infant feed, etc.

It's in the name. Tapioca is in Tapioca pudding.

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.

Tapioca reproduce through stem cutting's examples hibiscus.

Look into a nutritional database to find out:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/cereal-grains-and-pasta/5733/2

In essence, Tapioca is ~99% carbohydrate, has very little vitamins and minerals, and 300 grams fills your daily requirement for calories from carbohydrates.

Tapioca flour is a flavorless, colorless, odorless starch extracted from the root of the plant species Manihot esculenta. This species, native to South America, is now cultivated worldwide and has many names, including cassava, bitter-cassava, manioc, "mandioca", "aipim", "macaxeira", "manioca", "boba", "yuca" (not to be confused with yucca) and "kappa" in the state of Kerala in India.

Yes it is healthy. People of the world who cannot grow wheat or corn use it in place of these grains. It is a root crop, like potatoes, and easily grown in poor soils. It is, like wheat and corn, a complex carbohydrate. It is widely grown and eaten in Central and South America as well as Africa and parts of Asia. Like any carb, you should balance them with proteins and fats, as well as leafy greens and fruits. Eat tapioca and be happy..you'll live long and prosper.

1 cup DRY oatmeal is

Fat = 5g

Carbs = 51g

Fiber = 8g

Protein =12g

Cals =291

Around there, 1cup dry is going to give you more than 1cup cooked to eat though but yeah there you go.

Potato contains simple carbohydrates that are easy to digest and absorb by the human body.

One large potato which is around 300 gms in weight contains around 280 calories.

You can use 4 teaspoons of quick cooking tapioca OR 1 tablespoon corn starch in place of 2 tablespoons flour for thickening.

Yes! in many recipes!

yes you can it is one of those tricky foods but if you look n gluten books they mention tapioca being a food that u can actually eat

I make pies for a living, and YES it can be a substitute. I do work with frozen fruit, so I made up a mixture of cornstarch, flour, and gelatin, since we have no tapioca. For one pie it should be 3tbs gelatin, 4 tbs cornstarch, and 4 tbs A.P. flour. Hope that helped!

Tapioca does not come from a bean, it is extracted from the root of the cassava plant.

Probably, as long as they look fresh and are less than 6 months out of date.

Yes. Some people cannot tolerate corn, so tapioca starch is a good substitute.

Yams and sweet potatoes are biologically unrelated plants. In the U.S. the names are used interchangeably. The majority are different varieties of sweet potato. The main distinguishing factor is that a sweet potato tends to have ends which taper to a point and yams tend to have rough scaly skin. In addition, wild yams have been recorded to weigh up to 130 lbs. There are approximately 200 different varieties of yams with flesh colors varying from white to ivory to yellow to purple while their thick skin comes in white, pink or brownish-black. Their shape is long and cylindrical (oftentimes having offshoots referred to as "toes") while their exterior texture is rough and scaly. There is great confusion between yams and sweet potatoes in the United States; most of the vegetables labeled "yams" in the markets are really orange-colored sweet potatoes. The sweet potato has yellow or orange flesh, and its thin skin may either be white, yellow, orange, red or purple. Sometimes this root vegetable will be shaped like a potato, being short and blocky with rounded ends, while other times it will be longer with tapered ends. There is often much confusion between sweet potatoes and yams; the moist-fleshed, orange-colored root vegetable that is often called a "yam" is actually a sweet potato. Nutritionally speaking:

Sweet potatoes are relatively low in calories and have no fat. They are rich in beta-carotene; having five times the recommended daily allowance of Vitamin A in one sweet potato, as well as loaded with potassium. These nutrients help to protect against heart attack and stroke. The potassium helps maintain fluid and electrolyte balance in the body cells, as well as help maintain normal heart function and blood pressure. Yams are similar nutritionally but are not a great source of Vitamin A. They are a good source of vitamin C, potassium, manganese, dietary fiber, and vitamin B6 (pyridoxine). Yams are also known to help protect against cardiovascular disease, benefit those with hypertension, and believed to be an anti-cancer food.

You dig a hole in the ground and you put a seed in it. You cover up the hole and water it and then BOOM!! there is a plant there.

Tapioca was one of my mother's favorite desserts.

Regardless of the normal misinterpretation that custard pearls contain dairy or gelatine as a result of their surface, custard bubbles are simply custard starch, which comes from a plant-based cassava root.

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