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Clearspring Organic Kuzu is a superior quality starch with a smooth texture and neutral flavour that is naturally extracted from the roots of one of Japans most vigorous mountain plants.

Clearspring Organic Kuzu makes an ideal thickener for soups and stews, sweet and savoury sauces, glazes and pie fillings. To use, crush the chunks and thoroughly dissolve in a small amount of cold water. Add to your cooking liquid and heat, stirring continuously until thick and translucent. A half to one tablespoon of kuzu will thicken one cup of liquid.

Clearsprings kuzu producer has been making kuzu for five generations, and still carefully follows the traditional 120 day process of washing, settling, filtering and drying the pure organic kuzu root starch that it supplies to Clearspring. Located in southern Kyushu, where the volcanic soils produce exceptionally vigorous kuzu plants, they are one of the few remaining producers of pure kuzu starch in Japan.

Kuzu has been valued for centuries as a starch that is soothing and easy to digest. According to Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., director of the Institute for Traditional Medicine and Preventive Health Care in Portland, Oregon, kuzu contains a very high concentration of flavonoids, which are responsible for its strong medicinal effect on the digestive and circulatory systems (1). Flavonoids, which occur naturally in kuzu and other plants, are known to be antioxidants. However, they also have the ability to inhibit the contraction of smooth muscle tissue, thereby increasing blood flow and relieving cramping in the intestines.

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