Metroxylon

The greatest diversity of uses of tapioca starch is in the food industry (see Chapter 20). As an ingredient in foods, native and modified tapioca starch has been widely utilized. Tapioca pearls (previously called sago pearls since they were made from sago [Metroxylon spp.] starch) are also familiar to many. The pearls formed in spherical shape are a mixture of gelatinized and ungelatinized starch produced by heat-moisture treatment. To produce tapioca pearls the starch is wetted to equilibrium of 50%... 

Other foodstuffs whose tannins have been studied in some detail, but not already considered include the cereal Lens culinaris (159) and sago starch (163) (Metroxylon sagu) in which proanthocyanidins are implicated in the post-harvest browning of both crops Manihot esculenta (M utilissima) where proanthocyanidins limit its use as a forage crop (206). 

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