Left: Schematic of wildtype tapioca (cassava) starch. Amylose content is about 17% (for simplicity, depicted here as 20%). Right: Schematic of the new transgenic tapioca starch. After reducing Starch ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have recently created a healthier form of starch in the cassava plant. Published in the scientific journal Plant ...

Taopica is a starch sold as flour, flakes, or pearls that’s low in nutritional value. People may use it as a gluten-free wheat alternative. Tapioca is a starch extracted from cassava root. It consists ...

Tapioca is starch obtained from the root of cassava, a plant that mostly grows underground (like a potato). In many parts of the world, it's a food staple. Cassava is a native vegetable of South ...

The ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI) in Thiruvananthapuram has embarked on a ₹4 crore research project for developing tapioca varieties with waxy or high-amylose starches that are ...

Tapioca flour, or tapioca starch, is gluten-free and often used in baking and cooking. If you find you don’t have any tapioca flour but a recipe calls for it, you can use any of these 6 substitutes.

The first thing that comes to mind when I hear “tapioca” is chewy, gummy boba spheres, but this wondrous starch has a different side it would like to show you. With minimal ingredients and a little ...