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Dictionary: sa·go (sā'gō) pronunciation Home > Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary n., pl., -gos. A powdery starch obtained from the trunks of certain sago palms and used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener.
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sago ---- Top Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Britannica Concise Encyclopedia sago Food starch prepared from carbohydrate material stored in the trunks of several palms, chiefly Metroxylon rumphii and M. sagu, sago palms native to Indonesia. Composed of 88% carbohydrate, sago is a basic food of the South Pacific, where it is used in meal form to prepare soups, cakes, and puddings. Elsewhere its use in cookery is mainly as a pudding and sauce thickener. In industry it is used as a textile stiffener. The thick trunk grows to 30 ft (9 m) tall in low marshy areas. At 15 years the core of the mature trunk is engorged with starchy material. If allowed to form and ripen, the fruit absorbs the starch, leaving the stem hollow and dying. Cultivated plants thus are cut down when the flower spike appears, and the starchy pith is extracted from the stems.
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Starchy grains prepared from the pith of the swamp sago (Metroxylon sagu) and the sugar palm (Arenga pinnuta); almost pure starch and sugars (sucrose, glucose, and fructose), free from protein. Food Lover's Companion:
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SAY-goh A starch extracted from the sago (and other tropical) palms that is processed into flour, meal and pearl sago, which is similar to tapioca. South Pacific cooks frequently use sago for baking and for thickening soups, puddings and other desserts. In the Orient and in India it's used as a flour and in the United States it's occasionally used as a thickener. Archaeology Dictionary:
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Palm (Metroxylon sagu) native to Indonesia and Samoa which stores large amounts of starch in its trunk prior to flowering. The starch can be washed out of the chopped pith of felled trees and then cooked as a kind of porridge or in cakes. The antiquity of its exploitation is unknown, but it was widely used in Indonesia and Melanesia. Columbia Encyclopedia:
sago ---- Top Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Columbia Encyclopediasago (sā'gō) Malay, edible starch extracted from the pithlike center of several E Asian palms (chiefly Metroxylon sagu) or sometimes of cycads. The starch is an important item in the diet in some parts of E Asia and is exported for use in foods (e.g., puddings) and for stiffening textiles. Sago is obtained by grinding the stem content of a filled mature sago palm that is beginning to flower into powder and washing the starch free. For local use it is pulverized, but for the market it is usually sieved and then heated to form granules. The florists' sago palm is not a true palm but a cycad of the American genus Zamia. Z. floridana, called wild sago or coontie, yields Florida arrowroot.
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Sago is a starch extracted from the pith of sago palm stems, Metroxylon sagu. It is a major staple food for the lowland peoples of New Guinea and the Moluccas, where it is called saksak and sagu. It is traditionally cooked and eaten in various forms, such as rolled into balls, mixed with boiling water to form a paste, or as a pancake. Sago looks like many other starches, and both sago and tapioca are produced commercially in the form of "pearls". Sago pearls are similar in appearance to tapioca pearls, and the two may be used interchangeably in some dishes. This similarity causes some confusion in the names of dishes made with the pearls.
Because sago flour made from Metroxylon is the most widely used form, this article discusses sago from Metroxylon unless otherwise specified. Contents
- Preparation
- Nutrition
- Uses
- Botany
- Cycad sago
- References
- External links
Preparation ----------- Sago Palm being harvested for Sago production PNG.jpg Sago starch filter PNG.jpg
Metroxylon sago is made through the following process: 1. The sago palm is felled.
2. The trunk is split lengthwise and the pith is removed. 3. The pith is crushed and kneaded to release the starch.
4. The pith is washed and strained to extract the starch from the fibrous residue. 5. The raw starch suspension is collected in a settling container.
Palms are felled just before flowering, when the stems are richest in starch. One palm yields 150 to 300 kg of starch. Nutrition ---------
Sago flour (from Metroxylon) is nearly pure carbohydrate and has very little protein, vitamins, or minerals. However, as sago palms are typically found in areas unsuited for other forms of agriculture, sago cultivation is often the most ecologically appropriate form of land-use, and the nutritional deficiencies of the food can often be compensated for with other readily available foods. One hundred grams of dry sago yields 355 calories, including an average of 94 grams of carbohydrate, 0.2 grams of protein, 0.5 grams of dietary fiber, 10 mg of calcium, 1.2 mg of iron, and negligible amounts of fat, carotene, thiamine, and ascorbic acid.
Sago can be stored for weeks or months, although it is generally eaten soon after it is processed. Uses ----
Sago pancake Sago starch is either baked (resulting in a product analogous to bread, pancake, or biscuit) or mixed with boiling water to form a paste. Sago can be made into steamed puddings such as sago plum pudding, ground into a powder and used as a thickener for other dishes, or used as a dense flour.
The starch is also used to treat fibre, making it easier to machine.
This process is called sizing and helps to bind the fibre, give it a
predictable slip for running on metal, standardise the level of
hydration of the fibre, and give the textile more body. Most cloth and
clothing has been sized; this leaves a residue which is removed in the
first wash.
In Indonesia and Malaysia, sago is a main staple of many traditional
communities in New Guinea, Borneo, Maluku, and Sumatra. In Brunei, it
is used for making the popular local cuisine called the ambuyat. It is
also used commercially in making noodles and white bread. Globally,
its principal use is in the form of tapioca-like "pearls" such as
those often found in drinks and smoothies. Pearl sago, a commercial
product, closely resembles pearl tapioca. Both typically are small
(about 2 mm diameter) dry, opaque balls. Both may be white (if very
pure) or colored naturally grey, brown or black, or artificially pink,
yellow, green, etc. When soaked and cooked, both become much larger,
translucent, soft and spongy. Both are widely used in South Asian
cuisine, in a variety of dishes, and around the world, usually in
puddings. In India, pearl sago is called javvarisi, or sabudana
("whole grain") and is used in a variety of dishes such as desserts
boiled with sweetened milk on occasion of religious fasts.Sago starch is not just limited to its uses for the food industry, but can also be used as a key material input in various industries such as paper, plywood, and textile industry. Sago starch is used to make adhesives, paper, ethanol, high fructose glucose syrup, maltodextrin, cyclodextrin and monosodium glutamate. Sago starch can converted further through fermentation to be used for producing biodegradable plastic and ethanol (gasohol). Its residual biomass can similarly be used as a feedstock for the production of power and heat.
Because many traditional peoples rely on sago as their main food staple, and because those supplies of sago are not unlimited, in some areas commercial or industrial harvesting of wild stands of sago can conflict with the food needs of local communities. Pearl sago
Botany ------ The sago palm, Metroxylon sagu, is found in tropical lowland forest and freshwater swamps across Southeast Asia and New Guinea and is the primary source of sago flour. It tolerates a wide variety of soils and may reach 30 meters in height. The palm genus Metroxylon contains several species: two of these, M. salomonense and M. amicarum, are less-important sources of sago in Melanesia and Micronesia.
Sago palms grow very quickly, up to 1.5m of vertical stem growth per year. The stems are thick and either are self-supporting or have a moderate climbing habit. The leaves are pinnate, not palmate. The palms will only reproduce once before dying; they are harvested at the age of 7 to 15 years, just before flowering, when the stems are full of starch stored for use in reproduction. In addition to its use as a food source, the leaves and spathe of the sago palm are used for construction materials and for thatching roofs. The fibre can be made into rope.
Cycad sago ---------- The sago cycad, Cycas revoluta, is a slow-growing wild or ornamental plant. Its common names, "Sago Palm" and "King Sago Palm", are misnomers since it is actually a cycad. Cycads are gymnosperms from the family Cycadaceae; palms are angiosperms (flowering plants) from the Arecaceae. The two taxa are completely unrelated. Interestingly, cycads are also a type of living fossil, having survived since at least the early Permian period.
Processed starch known as sago is made from this and other cycads. It is a less-common food source for some peoples of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. There are large biological and dietary differences between the two types of sago. Unlike Metroxylon palms (discussed above), cycads are highly poisonous: most parts of the plant contain the neurotoxins cycasin1 and BMAA. Consumption of cycad seeds has been implicated in the outbreak of Parkinson's Disease-like neurological disorder in Guam and other locations in the Pacific. Before any part of the plant may safely be eaten, the toxins must be removed through extended processing. First, pith from the trunk, root, and seeds is ground to a coarse flour and washed carefully to leach out natural toxins. It is then dried and cooked, producing a starch similar to tapioca or palm sago. Cycad sago is used for many of the same purposes as palm sago.
References ---------- 1. ^ "Plant toxin-induced liver damage - Cycasin". Health Grades Inc.. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/p/planttoxininducedliverdamagecycasin/intro.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
Flach, M. and F. Rumawas, eds. (1996). Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) No. 9: Plants Yielding Non-Seed Carbohydrates. Leiden: Blackhuys. Lie, Goan-Hong. (1980). "The Comparative Nutritional Roles of Sago and Cassava in Indonesia." In: Stanton, W.R. and M. Flach, eds., Sago: The Equatorial Swamp as a Natural Resource. The Hague, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff.
McClatchey, W., H.I. Manner, and C.R. Elevitch. (2005). Metroxylon amicarum, M. paulcoxii, M. sagu, M. salomonense, M. vitiense, and M. warburgii (sago palm), ver. 1.1. In: Elevitch, C.R. (ed.) Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry. Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR), Holualoa, Hawaii. Pickell, D. (2002). Between the Tides: A Fascinating Journey Among the Kamoro of New Guinea. Singapore: Periplus Press.
Rauwerdink, Jan B. (1986). "An Essay on Metroxylon, the Sago Palm." Principes 30(4): 165-180. Stanton, W.R. and M. Flach, eds., Sago: The Equatorial Swamp as a Natural Resource. The Hague, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff.
External links -------------- Species profile for Metroxylon sagu
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sago ---- Top Home > Library > Literature & Language > Translations Sago
Dansk (Danish) n. - sago, sagogryn Nederlands (Dutch) sago(palm), sagomeel
Français (French) n. - sagou Deutsch (German) n. - Sago
Ελληνική (Greek) n. - (φυτολ.) σαγούτο, σάγονος Italiano (Italian) sago
Português (Portuguese) n. - sagu (m), sagueiro (m) (Bot.) Русский (Russian) саго
Español (Spanish) n. - sagú Svenska (Swedish) n. - sago, sagogryn
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified)) 西米, 西米椰子 中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional)) n. - 西米, 西米椰子
한국어 (Korean) n. - 사고 녹말, 사고 야자 日本語 (Japanese) n. - サゴ
العربيه (Arabic) (الاسم) دقيق نشوي يعد من لب نخل ألساغو, نخل هندي עברית (Hebrew) n. - עמילן מדקל-הסגו
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