Tapioca comes in many forms—pearls, starch, flour, syrup, granules, etc. It’s naturally gluten-free, so it’s a popular wheat-free alternative to make gluten-free flours and products.

Tapioca flour, or tapioca starch, is gluten-free and often used in baking and cooking. If you find you don’t have any tapioca flour but a recipe calls for it, you can use any of these 6 substitutes.

Right: Tapioca and baking powder cupcake. Credit: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann 2. Tapioca flour and baking powder. This easy to make mixture produced a good quality final product as well. Points were ...

Tapioca, which comes from the cassava root, makes for an excellent ingredient for numerous vegetarian preparations ...