Tapioca flour is a delicious, nutritious powder that can be mixed with water to drink directly or process food and beauty. Tapioca flour not only clears heat and detoxifies effectively, but also has the effect of supporting and treating several other diseases.
Tapioca flour brings many health benefits
Referring to tapioca flour, you must have heard of it, but not everyone has had the opportunity to use it. This is a special powder with many health benefits and a relatively high price, much higher than tapioca flour, wheat flour, corn flour, rice flour… In this article, let’s learn with Vlux Vietnam What is tapioca flour and how it works, from which there is more useful information to apply when needed.
What is tapioca flour?
Tapioca starch is a delicious, nutrient-rich starch that is extracted from the tapioca root – the most delicious ingredient of tapioca. The powder is pure white, and smooth, and has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying and treating several other diseases.
Cassava is a vine whose roots develop into very large and long bulbs, with tubers as big as adult calves. When harvesting cassava, people only take the main part of the tuber, the leaves and roots can also be used as medicine.
Tapioca root contains Isoflavon ingredients: Pueradin, Daidzein C15H10O4, Daidzein C21H20O9 and starch, delicious for health, so it is popular with many people. Cassava plants are small and long, roots grow deep in the ground, and each bush can give tens, even hundreds of kilograms of tubers. In cassava tubers, there is a lot of starch and a sweet taste, the more you chew, the more attractive it is, so it is often used to boil and then eat, if not used all, make dry powder to save.
Tapioca starch is extracted from tapioca root
How is tapioca flour made?
To make tapioca flour, people take the tapioca roots to clean, then puree them with water and then filter them to settle the tapioca starch, take this part of the powder to dry, and break it into small pieces, not puree it as fine. common powders. In addition, tapioca flour can also be marinated with pomelo flowers and jasmine flowers … to create a pleasant scent, but this way will significantly reduce the medicinal properties of starch.
Health benefits of tapioca flour
In Oriental medicine, kudzu is a famous medicine with many different uses. Tapioca can be used as a medicine for colds, headaches, thirst, boils, anti-ageing, detoxification, alcohol detoxification, etc. In addition, tapioca flour is also a beauty ingredient for women when being treated. combined with honey, eggs, and fruits … to nourish the skin, treat melasma, and exfoliate. Drinking tapioca water is also a beauty method from the inside that is applied by many women.
Tapioca flour is often mixed into nutritious drinks
Iron supplement
Tapioca flour is a natural source of iron worth considering. You just need to drink a cup of tapioca flour, you can add 13% of the iron needed by the body every day to help fight anaemia.
Antioxidant
Many studies show that 8% of the amount of Manga the body needs in a day can be supplemented with a cup of tapioca flour. This is an essential mineral, helps metabolize cholesterol and amino acids, and supports strong bones and anti-oxidants.
Strong bones
If you are concerned about bone and joint problems, you need to add enough calcium to your body. This mineral plays an important role in keeping teeth and bones strong. Not only that, the numbness of hands and feet will be improved thanks to calcium’s ability to promote blood circulation.
Good for pregnant women
Folate content in tapioca is very high, which plays an important role in the process of creating DNA as well as cell division. This B vitamin should be taken throughout pregnancy to help prevent neural tube defects. Therefore, tapioca flour is considered a good food for pregnant women.
Aids in digestion and helps with weight gain
The use of tapioca flour in supporting the digestive system will help you eat better, and absorb nutrients better, thereby gaining weight effectively.
Help improve 1 round
Tapioca starch contains a lot of protein and lecithin that can produce estrogen hormone. Estrogen hormone will help stimulate breast growth quickly. Mix tapioca powder with warm water, condensed milk or lemon juice, and drink continuously for 1 month to be effective.
See more uses of tapioca flour for health:
- Cure sunburn, vomiting, headache, hot fever
- Cure chest area, hot stomach and thirst
- Treatment of alcohol poisoning, food poisoning
- Cure nosebleeds
- Anti-itch due to sweat
- Support treatment of dysentery
- Treatment of freckles, effective acne treatment
Distinguish tapioca and tapioca flour
Tapioca is a common ingredient in cuisine, tapioca is also known as tapioca starch according to the name of the Northern people, so it is often confused with tapioca flour.
About the similarity
Tapioca flour and tapioca flour are both white, when ripe, they will turn white and sticky (tapioca has more toughness and adhesion than tapioca).
About the difference
Tapioca starch is made from tapioca tubers, also known as tapioca tubers, tapioca flour is made from tapioca roots. Tapioca flour is fine, tapioca has the form of large pieces.
Tapioca flour must be cooked to be used, often used as a food additive or for cooking tea and cakes. Tapioca flour can be mixed with instant water, and can also be used to cook tea and make pearls and snacks for children.
Tapioca flour can be applied to the face for beauty, tapioca can not,
How to drink tapioca flour?
- Most people often mistakenly think that tapioca flour can be mixed with hot or cold water at will. But this is an extremely harmful habit. Absolutely must cook tapioca flour before using it. Because cassava flour is soldering if consumed raw regularly will cause some health problems, it is best to drink ripe tapioca flour and add a little sugar.
Tapioca flour must be cooked when using
- Do not combine tapioca flour with other foods indiscriminately and unreasonably because it will reduce the effect of tapioca flour. Do not mix tapioca flour with honey. According to research, these two ingredients combine to form a poison.
- Especially, people should not drink more than 1 glass of tapioca powder per day. It’s good, but overdosing can be counterproductive. Drink just enough, every day 1 glass of tapioca flour is the best.
- Besides, there is also a recipe that is marinated with pomelo flowers to increase the flavour, but this method is not effective, and at the same time reduces the effect of tapioca flour. Limit marinating pomelo flowers in tapioca flour because it will cause unwanted side effects.
- At the end of pregnancy, the growth of the fetus presses on internal organs, increasing constipation, the change in hormone levels leads to a decrease in intestinal motility, which also makes the digestive system work poorly. cause bloating, loss of appetite, heat in the body… Therefore, women during pregnancy who are hot or constipated should drink tapioca flour.
However, when pregnant women show signs of miscarriage or see the body showing signs of cold, fatigue or low blood pressure, it is not recommended to drink tapioca flour.
- Tapioca flour has strong soldering properties, so it is recommended for young children to drink ripe tapioca, not to drink raw tapioca flour to avoid cold stomach and diarrhoea.
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