Tapioca Starch

Product Description

Cassava has many names across many continents. The English word is cassava, but in South American in the area around Brazil it is called madioca. In Africa where French is spoken it is called manioc. In Spanish-speaking countries it is called yuca. Here in Asia we call it tapioca.
The origins of cassava are many, but the principle origin is in the tropical areas of the American continents, especially in South America. The countries such as Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Honduras planted cassava three to five thousand years before the plant was distributed across the Americas and elsewhere. In the *5th century, slave traders and the Portuguese brought cassava to the African continent. Cassava reached Asia around the *7th century, when the Spanish brought it from Mexico for planting in Philippines. In the *8th century, the Dutch brought cassava into Indonesia. One kilogram of tapioca starch requires 4.4 kilograms of fresh cassava roots at its starch content of *5%.