1.   Add sugar, pepper, tapioca starch and wine or sherry.

2.   In a shallow dish, combine the tapioca starch and cornstarch.

3.   In yogurt, tapioca starch is used as a fat substitute.

4.   The increase was due to the escalating cost of raw materials especially tapioca starch which was mainly imported from Thailand, he said.

5.   They flick bloated leeches off their ankles as they boil a thick paste of sago palm and tapioca starch.