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Tapioca

Tapioca is made from the cassava root. It is used in cooking as a thickening agent in liquid based dishes such as gravies, sauces and puddings.

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Is tapioca black or white?

Tapioca is black when it is in bubble tea, but is white in tapioca pudding.

Is tapioca a suspension?

no i have loved tapioca since kindergarten and used to call it freckel pudding!!

What does tapioca maltodextrin do?

Tapioca maltodextrin simply absorbs and thickens fats.

Tapioca starch interacts with water molecules to create a gel; this is what makes it useful as a thickening ingredient. Tapioca starch is used to thicken sauces,improve dough quality and add desirable texture to desserts.

Is tapioca fattening?

Yes. Tapioca is very fattening at around 424 calories per oz

Does tapioca cure cancer?

I came to know through a doctor, who got cured of her cancer by eating Tapioca (Manioc) 30 grams, 3 times a day.There are other patients too who got cured of liver-cancer by eating tapioca.This has to be taken for 3 months to get results.

What is sabudana?

Saboodana is made from raw tapioca roots (commonly known as shakkarkand), an underground potato like variety. These tapioca roots (shakkarkand) are crushed in a tank and its milk/juice is extracted and stored for few days which changes its nature and turns into light paste... It is then poured into machine or hand sheets or big steel sheets with holes to produce white granules from the paste. Thus the white granules or small white balls are formed, which are dried and these dried granules/balls are called as saaboodana. - akhtar masood

What is the Difference between large pearl tapioca and instant tapioca?

Tapioca is a starchy substance extracted from the root of the cassava plant. Instant tapioca is used as a thickener, usually for pies but can also be used in soups or sauces. Large pearl tapioca is most often added to drinks or puddings to add a chewy texture to the overall dish rather than thickening the liquid within the dish.

What is the origin of the words tapioca and caste?

tapioca comes from the Latin route 'Mor and Spanish word 'on so who ever reads this is a MORON

Is tapioca safe for dogs to eat?

If it possesses an articfical sweatener called Xylitol, then no. You can find a list of things dogs cant have here :

http://www.acreaturecomfort.com/toxic.htm

You can always check with your vet if you are really concerned.

Is tapioca good for body building?

Yes, it's helpful for body building that keeping you slim.

What is available at the Tapioca Express in California?

The Tapioca Express is a specialty store specializing in smoothies and bubble tea. You can find a wide variety of drinks that will suit your needs in any Tapioca Express location.

What are the little beady things in tapioca pudding?

They are balls of tapioca. Go to http://en.wikipdedia.org/, and search for Tapioca for more info.

Does Tapioca starch contain giladins which flair Systemic Lupus Erythomysis you have a sensitivity to giladins as part of glutin flour and it flairs your SLE?

Tapioca starch does not contain gliadins, therefore it is safe for people who are on a gluten free diet. It will not make your lupus flare.

Is eating tapioca bad when you are constipated?

I'm not totally sure about this, but for the past couple of weeks I have been drinking excessive doses of Bubble Tea. Now I take a dump like twice a week :( It's probably the Tapioca that absorbs all the water in your colon and causes dryness that leads to constipation. Cut it down for your own good, I guess.

Can you use baking soda instead of tapioca starch?

Baking soda is not at all similar to tapioca starch, so you would get a very different result if you replaced one with the other. A more logical substitution for tapioca starch would be corn starch.

How many tablespoons should you use to thicken an applie pie with tapioca flour?

One tablespoon of tapicoa flour should suffice. You may find that a tablespoon of cornflour (cornstarch) works even better than tapioca flour - the finer grains absorb more of the apple juice and do not leave a distinctive "floury" flavour.

Is tapioca a fruit or vegetable?

Tapioca is a root starch.Tapioca is a root starch. I fetched this from a google search→

Tapioca is basically a root starch derived from the cassava, or yuca plant. It's often used to thicken soups and sweeten the flavor of baked goods, and it makes a dandy pudding.

The cassava plant is native to South America and the West Indies, where its thick, fibrous roots are used in a variety of forms: bread flour, laundry starch, an alcoholic brew, and of course, tapioca pudding.