A white flour from the root of the West Indian plant of the same name. It is used as a thickener in recipes. The plant was given the name “Arrowroot” because it was once used to treat those injured with wounds from poison arrows. The Native Caribbean Arawak people made arrowroot a foundation of their diet and valued it for its amazing healing benefits (i.e., it would draw out the poison from wounds). Arrowroot is not another name for Tapioca but often labeled as such. see Tapioca/Arrowroot/Cassava Starch/Flour