tara gum

English

Etymology

From Spanish tara, from Quechua.

Noun

tara gum (usually uncountable, plural tara gums)

  1. A white or beige nearly odorless powder used as a thickening agent and stabilizer for food, produced by separating and grinding the endosperm of Tara spinosa seeds.
    • 2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.

Synonyms

  • tara flour

Further reading

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