0 small, hard pieces of the dried and crushed root of the cassava plant, usually cooked with milk and sugar to make a sweet food: --
tapioca pudding
These are mainly foods such as tea, coffee, cocoa, potatoes; butter and cooking fat; dried fruits; and a range of farinaceous products such as flour, rice, sago and tapioca.
The increase referred to is due to larger imports of cassava (or tapioca) in the form of flour or starch, other than the foodstuff tapioca, which rose from 205,000 cwts.
Of more importance is the financial dependence of the country on tapioca.
During the occupation the population had to live largely on tapioca, which as a staple foodstuff is unpopular and nutritionally inadequate.
Also, there has been an improvement of even the lazy man's crop, such as manioc (the stuff with which tapioca is made) or cassava.
Ordinary articles of food which are entirely imported are rice, tapioca, sago, sugar, bananas, oranges, cocoa, coffee, and tea.
Take corn and grain—corn and flour, corn fodder and oil cake, malt, rice, sago, tapioca, macaroni, beans, peas, and lentils.
Then there are sago, tapioca, sago flour, and bananas which are enormously important.
