Baking soda and baking soda are not the same.

The difference between baking soda and baking powder: baking soda is sodium carbonate, baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, in order to keep the noodles from becoming acidic in the pasta you can only use baking soda and not baking powder. Baking soda is alkaline and requires acidic substances to react with it to produce bubbles.

The role of baking soda and baking powder:

Life often use baking powder and yeast, baking powder is a mixture of alkaline and acidic substances, can be used directly to foam, do not need to add another acidic substances.

While yeast is alive and can reproduce, that is, a microorganism, mainly an active probiotic called yeast, during fermentation, yeast absorbs the sugar in the flour and converts it into alcohol and carbon dioxide, so that the noodles are raised. After high temperatures, it provides a rich source of protein and vitamins in the noodles.

Baking soda, besides being used in pasta making, does not ferment the dough, but it has another function, that is, it can play a neutralizing role with acids, that is to say, after the dough is fermented with yeast, when the dough is sour, you can add some baking soda to neutralize the sourness of it.

Baking powder and baking soda are contained and contained relationship, baking powder by baking soda, corn starch, a variety of acidic body mixed into a white powder.