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I wanted to create a video on tapioca because I've gotten this question over and over and

over again.

It is tapioca keto friendly.

Let's take a look at it.

Where does tapioca come from?

Well, it's a starch that comes from the cassava plant.

And if you think about how many carbohydrates it has, it's quite high.

In fact, the carbohydrates from cassava flour is 25% more than white wheat flour.

Now if we compare tapioca flour, not fiber, which we're going to get to in a second, with

almond flour, and we compare a fourth of a cup, with tapioca, you're getting 27 net carbs,

but with almond flour, you're only getting three net carbs.

So you could see that tapioca can get out of control very, very fast.

But now I want to show you something that's very, very interesting because recently you'll

see this ingredient in a lot of so-called keto-friendly products or snacks or bars or powders

or recipes, soluble tapioca fiber.

It sounds pretty safe, right?

And soluble tapioca fiber is the same exact thing as prebiotic tapioca fiber, which is

the same thing as organic non-GMO tapioca fiber.

Well this may not be organic, but it's usually not GMO because they don't grow cassava GMO.

But all of these are very, very similar if not the same.

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