Edible baking soda is mainly used as the 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.
Edible baking soda NaHCO_. Properties: white powder or fine crystal, odorless, salty, soluble in water, but less soluble than sodium carbonate in water, slightly soluble in ethanol, and slightly alkaline in aqueous solution. It decomposes easily when heated. Slowly decompose in humid air.