Fecula Fecula

Fecula - Definition

Fecula is a flavourless starchy ingredient amylaceous and pulverised, extracted from vegetables like tubers, rhizomes, seeds used for cooking as a food thickener.

The word comme the latin one faex (meaning dregs), in low-latin faecula.

Various feculas

  • Arrow-root, based on tropical rhizomes or plants bulbs,
  • Cornstarch
  • Potato starch
  • Maïzena®, industrial fecula
  • Sago, based on the center of various palm trees.
  • Tapioca, based on manioc roots.
  • Toloman fecula

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