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The sago cycad, Cycas revoluta, is a slow-growing wild or ornamental plant. Its common names "sago palm" and "king sago palm" are misnomers as cycads are not palms. Processed starch known as sago is made from this and other cycads. It is a less-common food source for some peoples of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Cycas revoluta (Sotetsu [Japanese ソテツ], sago palm, king sago, sago cycad, Japanese sago palm) is a species of gymnosperm in the family Cycadaceae, native to southern Japan including the Ryukyu Islands. It is one of several species used for the production of sago, as well as an ornamental plant. The sago cycad can be distinguished by a ...
Sago was noted by the Chinese historian Zhao Rukuo (1170–1231) during the Song dynasty. In his Zhu Fan Zhi (1225), a collection of descriptions of foreign countries, he writes that the "kingdom of Boni (i.e. Brunei) ... produces no wheat, but hemp and rice, and they use sha-hu (sago) for grain". [7]
It is made in many cultures with varying styles, and may be produced in a variety of ways. Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia and Malaysia, produces the majority of sago. In Malaysia, sago gula melaka is a sago pudding made by boiling pearl sago in water and serving it with syrup of palm sugar (gula melaka) and coconut milk. [1]
In Brazil, tapioca pearls are still known as sagu, despite being made from the native South American cassava, and not sago palms. [2] These pearls are used in this traditional dish, known as sagu de vinho ("wine sago"), or just sagu , created in the Serra Gaúcha region, in the northeastern part of Rio Grande do Sul, [ 3 ] but consumed in all ...
Sago palm. Sago palm is a common name for several plants which are used to produce a starchy food known as sago. Sago palms may be "true palms" in the family Arecaceae, or cycads with a palm-like appearance. Sago produced from cycads must be detoxified before consumption. Plants called sago palm include:
Raw sago "pearls" Tahô (Tagalog:) is a Philippine snack food made of fresh soft/silken tofu, arnibal (sweetener and flavoring), and sago pearl (similar to tapioca pearls). [2] This staple comfort food is a signature sweet and tahô peddlers can be found all over the country.
Sago is a starch extracted from the stems of metroxylon sagu palms. ... Sago pudding, a sweet pudding made from pearl sago or tapioca; Sap Sago, ...