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

• Arrow-root, 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