From World Tapioca Conference website
The Tapioca is a plant with a lot of usefulness, especially its “root” or generally called “Tapioca Root” which is the most importance part of tapioca plant. The tapioca root, other than being edible as food, it is also used as the raw materials in agro-based industry, animal feeds and industrial purposes as follows:-
Tapioca Chips/Pellets :
They are used in various industries as follows:-
- Animal Feeds: It is used as the ingredients of animal feeds;
- Alcohol: It is used for producing alcohol for the liquor manufacture and the disinfectant;
- Gasohol: To be used for producing Ethanol and mixed with fuel which is a renewable energy source;
- Citric Acid: To be used for producing the Citric Acid which is the raw material of food industry, cosmetics and medicine;
Tapioca Starch :
It is used in various industries, for instance,
- Food and beverage: The tapioca starch will be used in both its original form and its other modified forms, for instance, the instant noodle, sago, seasoning sauce including beverages;
- Sweeteners: They are glucose and fructose which are used as the sweeteners in the beverage industry;
- Textile Industry: It is used for slipping the thread and to make the thread being without hair during the weaving and to fortify the thread including the cloth printing in order to make the cloth being shining and durable;
- Paper Industry: To mix it with the paper in order that the paper pulp to be tough and thick;
- Glue Industry: To use it for producing glue including any products whose their mixture is the glue;
- Plywood Industry: To use it in form of glue made from tapioca starch in the process of plywood manufacture in order to make the plywood become qualified, tough and durable;
- Medicine Industry: To use it as the diluent of capsule medicine and pill;
- Monosodium Glutamate: To use it for producing the MFG for seasoning food;
- Bio-Degradable Material Products: To use the tapioca starch to be transformed as product by mean of adding the bio-degradable substance to be in place of plastic. Tapioca Leaf
To be raw material of animal feeds in order to increase protein/color substance in egg
Tapioca Leaf
To be raw material of animal feeds in order to increase protein/color substance in egg
Tapioca Root
To burn it to become charcoal generating high heat but without smoke
