Edible alkali: also known as alkaline noodles (soda, soda ash), the scientific chemical formula of sodium carbonate is Na2CO3, and the main component is sodium carbonate, which is coarser than salt.
2. Function
Traditional flour is used to neutralize excess acidity when making dough. This process is called "alkali leaching". The dosage of alkali should be appropriate. Too little alkali is called "small alkali", and your face will die and become sour. If too much alkali is called "big alkali", the flowers will turn yellow. Using commercially available active yeast to make dough basically does not need alkali neutralization. When cooking corn porridge, the consistency of alkaline noodles can be increased. Drinking this kind of corn porridge often is especially good for people with high stomach acid, so you don't have to drink soda. This is like eating more vegetables instead of buying vitamin tablets, which is a good way to replace treatment with food.
After fully understanding its composition and function, we come to a conclusion: if we use it reasonably and properly, its value will be positive; If we use it to season the hot pot and clean the internal organs of animals illegally, the result will be very harmful. Taking alkali addition in hot pot as an example to illustrate its harmfulness. The alkali added in the hot pot will enter the digestive system with food after high temperature, which will continuously neutralize gastric acid to produce carbon dioxide, which may cause the following symptoms: people will burp continuously, causing the expansion reaction of the digestive tract. If you eat this substance for a long time, it will destroy people's digestive system and degenerate its function into a pathological reaction.
As for the amount of hot pot you mentioned, it is actually better not to use it (it is very harmful for black-hearted merchants to add papaverine). Of course, for hot pot mutton and beef, the use of edible alkali can soften the meat quality and taste better.
The edible method is to directly add a proper amount of edible alkali.