What is tapioca made of?!

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What is tapioca made of?

those drinks taste so good, so i was wondering what those black balls are made of

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3 weeks ago
and btw, are they unhealthy???

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3 weeks ago
and btw, are they unhealthy???

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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. As the Encyclopedia Britannica tells us, it was probably first harvested by the Mayans.

So basically is it just plant sap, heavy in starch, that has been dried and either cut, broken, or formed into bits or pearls.

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rice

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tapioca are made from the cassava root

for more information go to this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tapioca...

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its a pasta i belive

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The disgusting tapioca is made from cassava roots.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/manioc...

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