Edible baking soda is mainly used as a generator of carbon dioxide in food, soft drinks and cold drinks, and also used in feed additives, medicine, chemistry, tanning, fire-fighting preparations, biological breeding, detergents, environmental desulfurization, sterilization and detoxification, bathing and health care industries.
Baking soda is made from soda solution or crystal after absorbing carbon dioxide. So baking soda is also called edible alkali (powder) in some places Baking soda is solid, round, white and easily soluble in water.
In the mass production of steamed bread, fried dough sticks and other foods, noodles are often mixed with melted water of baking soda powder, which is decomposed into sodium carbonate, carbon dioxide and water after heating. Carbon dioxide and water vapor overflow, which makes the food more fluffy and sodium carbonate remains in the food. Too much baking soda in steamed bread will taste.
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One of the most widely used loosening agents in food industry is used to produce biscuits, cakes, steamed bread, bread and so on. , is the producer of carbon dioxide in soft drinks; It can be compounded with alum to form alkaline baking powder, or with soda ash to form civil caustic soda; It can also be used as a butter preservative. Fire fighting equipment is used to produce acid-base fire extinguishers and foam extinguisher.
The rubber industry uses it in combination with alum and sodium bicarbonate pore-forming agent to play the role of uniform pore-forming and is used in the production of rubber and sponge. Metallurgical industry is used as flux for casting steel ingots. The machinery industry is used as a molding aid for sand molds of cast steel (sand casting). Printing and dyeing industry is used as fixing agent for printing and dyeing, acid-base buffer and post-treatment agent for fabric dyeing and finishing.
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Baidu encyclopedia-edible baking soda
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Baidu encyclopedia-sodium bicarbonate