Sago Seed - Tapioca Pearl Description
Sago Seed - Tapioca Pearl
Traditionally cooked and eaten in various forms specially cooked with boiling water in the form of cookies. The sago pearls as you can boil water or milk to make a cake (pudding) sweet sago. Sago pearls are outwardly resemble a pearl tapioca and both can be used so alternative.
The Tapioca Sago Seed / Tapioca Pearl is a starch or starch food extracted from the pulp inside the stem or trunk of some palm trees. Mainly drawn from the species Metroxylon Sagu. This is the basic food for lowland peoples of New Guinea and the Moluccas, where they call saksak, rage and Sagu. Being not only Starch that food provides proteins, fats, vitamins or minerals. It is also the staple food of Punans (last nomads Sarawak in the jungle on the island of Borneo) and the people of the Mentawai.
Japan manufactures a kind of sago extracted species (not a palm) Cycas. Unlike the palm Metroxylon the cicadàcies are poisonous: most parts of the plants contain the neurotoxin cycasina and BMAA. Therefore must be consumed before removing toxins through a long procedure.
Specifications of Sago Seed - Tapioca Pearl
- Appearance : Granule
- Moisture : 13% Max
- P.H : 5.0 to 7.0
- Ash : 0.2% Max
- Protein : 0.2% Max
- SO2 : 30 ppm Max
- Size : 1.8 -2.5 mm
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