Tapioca seeds Sago, medium, whole, NEAL, 375g

Buttons are starch, which is obtained by washing out the crushed core of the buttons with water. One sago yields 110-150 kg of starch. Sagas is used as flour in puddings, puffs, breads and as thickener. For example, Sepik in the Sepik River region of New Guinea, sago pancakes are a daily staple, often eaten with fish.

Thetrue sago (Latin: Metroxylon sagu; English: true sago palm) is a species of the sago genus in the palm family, native to Indonesia, New Guinea, the Moluccas and Malaysia.

Sagos are multi-trunked, sucker palms, each trunk flowering once in its lifetime and dying when the fruit ripens .

The sago tree is economically very important as it is the main source of sago in the world.

Sagas is a starch obtained by washing it out of the crushed sago pith with water. One sago yields 110-150 kg of starch. Sagas is used as a flour in puddings, puffs, breads and as a thickener. In the Sepik River region of New Guinea, for example, sago pancakes are a daily staple, often eaten with fish.

Nutritional value per 100g:

Energy - 1461 kJ / 344 kcal

Protein - 0,2 g

Carbohydrate - 85,5 g

Fat - 0,2 g