Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. Carbohydrates sound so innocent: mere starches, sugar and fiber that the body uses for energy. Yet health-conscious Americans despise them, designing entire diets ...

This post has been updated. There are plenty of situations that require the thickening power of a pantry starch: your pie filling, soup, sauce, gravy. Cornstarch, tapioca starch (also known as tapioca ...

All-purpose flour, cake flour, arrowroot flour, and tapioca starch serve as excellent thickeners. Tapioca starch, wheat flour, and ground flaxseed are ideal substitutes for baking. When frying, the ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have recently created a healthier form of starch in the cassava plant. Published in the scientific journal Plant ...

Tapioca flour has a number of uses in cooking and baking. It works well as a thickener, makes a good gluten-free addition in baking, and is effective for coating ingredients before frying. There are ...

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