Health Secret of Arrowroot Powder

For all of you whose living in USA that I believe has familiar with Arrowroot Powder. The powder which comes from the rhizome of herb plant that has the scientist name is Maranta arundinacea. My interested with this herb plant is when I was saw this plant which planting under durian tree at the plantation of my father in law on Kuningan city, West Java provinces, Indonesia. People in West Javahas call Arrowroot with the name of Garut plant. 

Different with arrowrootproducer in other tropical countrys that maybe cultivate arrowroot in a big scale and set as the arrowroot plantation, arrowrootas herb plant still not cultivate in a big scale in Indonesia unless in some part of area. Philippines as a country in South East Asia known as the biggest arrowroot powderproducer in the world. The same conditions about the use of arrowroot powder in Indonesiawhich still a little in amount of people use it that different with the use of wheat flour.

What is arrowroot powder actually? Fact is arrowroot tuberscontain about 23% of starch, in Indonesia words is umbi or rimpang. When arrowroot starch get harvest then dried in the sun or drying house, the arrowroot starch can be made into arrowroot powder. Which one is the best between wheat flour and arrowroot powder? Well, I think the answer will be depend about individual people like in the use between both of them for many thing use, but when we use arrowroot powder in our baking or cooking recipes where there will be many health benefit in the use of arrowroot powder which has know also as herbal remedies.         

Some health benefit of arrowroot that I got from the website of morethanalive.com, arrowroot contains rich of carbohydrates and calcium, the use of arrowroot powder is recommended for soothe an uneasy stomach and alleviate diarrhea or nausea and vomiting. Arrowroot is also can be use as easily digested source of nutrition for infants and people that in recovery from illnesses also on restricted diets. What the next idea after see arrowroot which planting under durian tree at the plantation of my father in law on West Java provinces, Indonesia? Well, as my wife said that it would be great idea to try the recipe of Durian Pancake.