Medically reviewed by Melissa Nieves, LND Tapioca is a starch derived from the root of the cassava plant. Tapioca is naturally vegan, gluten-free, and grain-free, making it a great starch alternative ...

Common pantry ingredients like AP flour, rice flour, and potato starch behave similarly to cornstarch when it comes to thickening, baking, and frying.

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 ...

Cornstarch, also called maize starch or corn flour in the U.S., is the starch found in corn grains. It is a fine, white powder made from the endosperm or the starchy part of corn kernels. It's created ...

Most of us who've ever had tapioca know it to be the chewy, small pearls found in a bowl of pudding. Or maybe the bigger, still chewy balls floating around in the now-globally-popular sweet Asian ...