Tapioca

Tapioca or tapioca starch is a virtually tasteless starch made ​​from the processed and dried manioc ( cassava ).

It can be used like sago as an ingredient for cooking. It comes in the form of fine white starch beads ( Perltapioka ) or as thin, dried flakes in the trade.

The beads that are soaked before use, are an often used ingredient in West Africa and in Southeast Asian cooking, particularly in desserts. More and more popular also enjoys the so-called bubble tea, a mixture mainly of tea, milk and Tapiokakügelchen. In Brazil, tapioca flour is made into a kind of pancake that is eaten with butter, cheese or coconut milk. Tapioca starch is also often used as a sauce binder and as binder in the production of tablets. Occasionally it is also used in snack foods and fruit gum.

In the animal feed production, it is an important component kohlenhydratliefernde. They also gelatinized under the high pressure in the production of feed pellets. This prevents the pellets disintegrate again after cooling.

Etymology

The word " tapioca " comes from the Tupi language.