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the starch so gentle it babysits your stomach and your sauces alike
means A fine, easily digestible starch extracted from the tubers of certain tropical plants, used to thicken sauces and puddings and to soothe upset stomachs.
from From 'arrow' + 'root' — the popular story is that the plant's roots were used to draw out the poison from arrow wounds. There may be truth in this, but many scholars suspect the name is really a folk reshaping of an Indigenous Arawak word (something like 'aru-aru,' meaning 'meal of meals'), reshaped by English ears into the more familiar 'arrowroot.'
- name origin
- Possibly named for treating poison-arrow wounds
- digestion
- Eaten by invalids and infants for centuries
- clear gels
- Thickens sauces glossy where flour turns cloudy
- low heat
- Breaks down if boiled too hard or long
- gluten-free
- Pure starch with zero protein or grain
for instance
arrowroot starch — extracted from maranta arundinacea rhizomes, primary starch source since 17th century caribbean cultivation