Tapioca in the supermarket called tapioca starch and tapioca starch. Tapioca brands are different, the name is different, the national brand of tapioca in the supermarket are called tapioca starch, imported tapioca brands in the supermarket some called tapioca starch or tapioca starch.
Second, what can be done with tapioca
Tapioca starch can be made of alcohol, fructose, glucose, maltose, monosodium glutamate, beer, bread, cookies, shrimp flakes, vermicelli, sauces, as well as plastic fibers and plastic film, resins, coatings, adhesives and other chemical products.
Third, the difference between tapioca and sweet potato flour
1, the concept is different: Tapioca, also known as Thai flour, is a starch made of cassava as a material, starch extracted from cassava or tapioca tubers, which must be boiled after soaking in water to be able to eat; Sweet Potato Flour, also known as sweet potato flour, is ground into a powder of the groundnuts, generally gray, long and thin strips, crystalline, can be melted into the water, a common coarse grain products. A common coarse grain products.
2, different practices: tapioca can be used to make steamed cakes, boiled sugar water, the most common is used to make snacks, especially Chinese snacks, such as dumplings; sweet potato flour is often used to make noodles, will also be used to make Chinese snacks, such as groundnut cake, fried crispy meat, do cold noodles.
3, cooked in different forms: tapioca, after cooking will become transparent form, the taste with elasticity; sweet potato flour will be heated to present a viscous form, with a strong viscosity.
4, the composition is different: the composition of the potato flour contains hemp bitter glycosides, this ingredient will be consumed in the gastric acid under the action of decomposition and the production of a poisonous substance on the human body - hydrocyanic acid; sweet potato flour does not have any toxins.