Tapioca is more common than you may realize. There are hundreds of thousands of edible plants, so it’s impossible to get to know them all, let alone cook with all of them. But some are worth loo ...

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 secret to perfect homemade tapioca pudding? Patience — and plenty of whole milk. Vanilla bean paste and vanilla extract are both products made from vanilla beans that impart vanilla flavor ...

Voila! You have tapioca. Are tapioca flour and cassava flour the same thing? Though both products are gluten-free and come from the same plant, tapioca flour and cassava flour are different.

These gel-like tapioca spheres -- or pearls, as they are often called -- are made from the cassava plant. Cassava is also ...

Both products are made from cassava root, but cassava flour incorporates the whole root, whereas tapioca flour is made up of only the starchy part of the plant. In most recipes, cassava flour can ...

It's based on the tapioca, or the black chewy pearls (boba) made from the tapioca plant," said Royal Tea owner Moez Haj-Mabrouk. And when you stir the tapioca pearls around to mix the flavors ...