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a tree that stores its entire life savings as belly starch
means A starch extracted from the spongy center of certain palm and cycad trunks, used as a food thickener and rolled into the small pearls you find in puddings.
from From Malay 'sagu,' the name for the palm and its pith, which entered European languages through Portuguese traders sailing the spice routes of the East Indies in the 16th century. The word arrived in English much as the starch itself did — by ship, from the islands of Southeast Asia.
- palm fraud
- Sago palm cycads aren't palms at all
- trunk pantry
- Starch is scraped from the felled trunk's pith
- toxic raw
- Cycad sago needs careful washing to remove poison
- pearl form
- Rolled into tiny balls for puddings worldwide
- dinosaur diet
- Cycads predate flowering plants by millions of years
for instance
sago pudding — traditional british dessert made from sago pearls, milk, and sugar, popular in uk school dinners since the 1950s
sago in philippines — staple starch crop in mindanao, processed into pearls for export and domestic consumption