is there such thing as organic baking soda?

Walgreens Drugstores sells a private label line of products that are labelled as "natural" or "organic." They sell an "All Natural Baking Soda." I could not find any info on how it is prepared. It may state on the box or you may have to contact Walgreens corporate office to find out.

http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?id=prod...

"Natural" baking soda is found in certain spring waters, but separating it from the other minerals would be next to impossible and economically unfeasable.

There may be other sources but I couldn't find any.

Be well.

Rick the Pharmacist

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A word of caution: the use of the words "natural" or "organic" can be very misleading. To a chemist an "organic" is anything containing carbon and hydrogen. Therefore gasoline would be "organic." After all, fossil fuels are derrived from previously living organisms. But most people would not consider gasoline "organic."

Being able to put the word "organic" on a food product is a valuable marketing advantage in today's consumer market. Certification is intended to protect consumers from misuse of the term, and make buying organics easy. However, the organic labelling made possible by certification itself usually requires explanation.

In the US, federal organic legislation defines three levels of organics. Products made entirely with certified organic ingredients and methods can be labelled "100% organic". Products with 95% organic ingredients can use the word "organic". Both may also display the USDA organic seal. A third category, containing a minimum of 70% organic ingredients, can be labelled "made with organic ingredients". In addition, products may also display the logo of the certification body that approved them. Products made with less than 70% organic ingredients can not advertise this information to consumers and can only mention this fact in the product's ingredient statement. Similar percentages and labels apply in the EU.

Baking soda the another name for sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3). This white solid is crystalline but often appears as a fine powder. It has a slight alkaline taste resembling that of sodium carbonate. It is a component of the mineral natron and is found dissolved in many mineral springs. It is also produced artificially.

NaHCO3 is mainly prepared by the Solvay process, which entails the reaction of sodium chloride, ammonia, and carbon dioxide in water. It is produced on the scale of 100,000 ton/year.

Commercial quantities of baking soda are also produced by this method: soda ash, mined in the form of the ore trona, is dissolved in water and treated with carbon dioxide. Sodium bicarbonate precipitates as a solid from this solution:

Na2CO3 + CO2 + H2O → 2 NaHCO3.

Organic Baking Soda

Organic Baking Powder

Additional Info: WASTES FROM SOLVAY EXTRACTION PROCESS

The principal byproduct of the Solvay process is calcium chloride (CaCl2) in aqueous solution. The process has other waste and byproducts as well.[9] Not all of the limestone that is calcined is converted to quicklime and carbon dioxide (in reaction II); the residual calcium carbonate and other components of the limestone become wastes. In addition, the salt brine used by the process is usually purified to remove magnesium and calcium ions, typically to form carbonates; otherwise, these impurities would lead to scale in the various reaction vessels and towers. These carbonates are additional waste products.

In inland plants, such as that in Solvay, New York, the byproducts have been deposited in "waste beds"; the weight of material deposited in these waste beds exceeded that of the soda ash produced by about 50%. These waste beds have led to water pollution, principally by calcium and chloride. The waste beds in Solvay, New York substantially increased the salinity in nearby Onondaga Lake, which used to be among the most polluted lakes in the U.S.[11] and is a superfund pollution site.[12] As such waste beds age, they do begin to support plant communities which have been the subject of several scientific studies.

Baking Soda is NaHCO3, and does contain carbon. It is not generally considered an organic product. Perhaps they mean that it was produced under conditions they consider to be more on line with organic products.

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Yes, go to your natural food store. I know people have this big thing about not having aluminum in their baking powder bc they think it causes Alzheimer's. Who am I kidding I bought aluminum free stuff too.

No. Baking soda in not an organic product.

Technically, baking soda is organic. Organic chemistry is chemistry dealing with compounds involving carbon. Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, with the formula NaHCO3.

you'll have to check your local organic food market.

I have looking for too.