Do you love homemade tapioca pudding? Then you must pick up some of Bob's Red Mill Small Pearl Tapioca and try the recipe featured on the back. This paleo-friendly tapioca contains no sulfites or other additives. Grown in the tropics, the cassava or tapioca plant produces a fleshy edible root stock. A nutritious starch is extracted from cassava and formed into the "pearls" you are so familiar with.