Tapioca is a starch extracted from cassava root (Manihot esculenta). This species is native to the northeast region of Brazil, but its use spread throughout South America.
Tapioca is a food consisting of white grains, rather like rice, which come from the cassava plant. It is small, hard pieces of the dried and crushed root of the cassava plant, usually cooked...
Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca..Tapioca pearls contain mostly carbohydrates from starch and have little nutritional value.. .