Arrowroot

Food starch

Arrowroot is a starch obtained from the rhizomes (rootstock) of several tropical plants, traditionally in particular Maranta arundinacea, but also Florida arrowroot (Zamia integrifolia), as well as tapioca from cassava (Manihot esculenta), which is often labeled arrowroot. In Kenya, "arrowroot" refers to nduma, a plant known elsewhere as taro. Polynesian arrowroot or pia (Tacca leontopetaloides), Guyana arrowroot (Dioscorea alata), Japanese arrowroot or kudzu (Pueraria lobata), and purple arrowroot (Canna indica) are used in similar ways.

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