i love to eat the pudding
2006-06-19 13:16:07 · 6 answers · asked by earthygirl 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
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.
Tapioca has been considered a healthy food because, as a starch, it is easy to digest. In the eighteenth century it gained popularity for its nutritive properties. In the nineteenth century, tapioca pudding was often used as a medicine. In 1948, Jell-O produced three flavors of tapioca pudding: vanilla, chocolate, and orange-coconut.
About the actual tapioca part:
Tapioca is an essentially flavourless starchy ingredient, or fecula, produced from treated and dried cassava (manioc) root and used in cooking. It is similar to sago and is commonly used to make a milky pudding similar to rice pudding. Purchased tapioca comprises many small white spheres each about 2 mm in diameter. These are not seeds, but rather reconstituted processed root. The processing concept is akin to the way that wheat is turned into pasta.
2006-06-19 13:19:34 · answer #1 · answered by Ashley 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its a plant of some kind, and the pudding is made from the root
2006-06-19 20:19:46 · answer #2 · answered by mr_sparkle6666 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tapioca istelf is a plant startch, just like wheat flour or arrowroot powder or cornstarch. It is used to thicken puddings, as you mentioned, but also fruit pies.
Tapioca pudding contains: tapioca, milk, sugar, eggs, vanilla, pinch of salt, maybe chocolate if you want that.
2006-06-19 20:20:05 · answer #3 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I know is it's pudding and I don't eat it often my cook always makes it but I don't really like it.
2006-06-19 20:21:04 · answer #4 · answered by Chaysee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know what tapioco is, but if you ment tapioca, it's stuff you use to make really good pudding with. You probably know that, so i don't know what it is, the only kind of tapioca ive heard of is tapioca pudding.
2006-06-19 20:21:27 · answer #5 · answered by jj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From wikipedia, Tapioca is an essentially flavourless starchy ingredient, or fecula, produced from treated and dried cassava (manioc) root
2006-06-19 20:21:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋