Eden Kuzu Root Starch, Organic, 3.5 Ounce

Description

Eden Organic Kuzu Root Starch is a flexible thickener that dissolves quickly in any cold liquid and has no perceptible taste. It is rather low in calories and comprises no fat. Kuzu binds more strongly than arrowroot. Unlike corn and potato starches (industrially processed) Eden Kuzu is handcrafted, natural, and uniquely nourishing. Organically certified, wild roots are hand harvested from December to March when the sap gathers in the root, carried down from the mountains on backpacks and cleaned. Each and every root is hand-cut into chunks that are crushed into fibers, soaked and rinsed, creating a thick paste. The paste is time and again washed and filtered in cold mountain spring water until it becomes a pure white starch. The kuzu starch is then allowed to dry naturally for 90 days, crushed into small chunks and packed. The kuzu Pueraia lobata plant is a prolific, tough, fibrous vine with heart-shaped leaves that used to be used as a food in China for more than 2,000 years, and praised in Japanese poetry and legend as a bracing health food and ideal thickener for over one thousand years. Its roots are some of the largest on the planet, ranging in length from three to seven feet and weighing between 200 to over 400 pounds. Traditionally the leaves, seeds, flowers and roots were used in making vegetable dishes, noodles, dumplings, beverages, desserts and pickles. The vines were used to weave baskets and in making clothing, fishing line, and paper.

A macrobiotic staple.
All the time dissolve it in a cold liquid before adding it to anything hot. Stir repeatedly when heating until the milky white becomes clear. Fat and sodium free.