What exactly are those little things in tapioca pudding?!
What exactly are those little things in tapioca pudding?
somebody at my school told me they're fish eyeballs but i don't believe it. what are they? i'm eating tapioca pudding as we speak by the way.
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Tapioca used to gross me out. Then I learned what it really was..not long ago...and I'm 22 now, so that's kinda sad. Anyways, my grandpa's wife used to make frog's eye salad. It's tapioca in some whipped cream and pineapple thingy. Really slimey feeling.
Anyways, someone else answered what it is already, so I won't bother.
Tapioca pudding is a common pudding with tapioca pearls added to a vanilla pudding. It can be discerned from other types of pudding by the small, translucent and almost caviar-like orbs of tapioca within. Tapioca is the root of the cassava plant, which is also known as manioc. It requires processing to withdraw either flakes, seeds or pearls of the tapioca plant. Tapioca is native to South and Central America. It is now produced in Africa and Asia.
we used to call them frogs spawn in school. omg tapioca makes me feel sick,gotta run,!!
they are not fish eyes but i do not know sry
It's just starch :-) Tapioca is made from the root of a particular kind of agave plant, and that's just congealed starch from the process of making the pudding.
The little balls in your pudding are the tapioca pearls which cause the milk to thicken.
tapioca pearls...instant tapioca doesn't have them
tapioca - that is why it is called tapioca pudding. It is a kind of root (I think) that is ground up for use as a thickening agent. In it's powdered form it is like corn starch. It has almost no flavor on it's own so like tofu, it absorbs the flavor of what it is in. Pretty neat huh.