Fecula
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
- Arrowroot, based on tropical rhizomes or plants bulbs,
- Cornstarch
- Potato starch
- Maïzena®, industrial fecula
- Sago, made from the pith of various cycads, particularly Cycas revoluta.
- Tapioca, based on manioc roots.
- Toloman fecula