How is baking soda and baking powder the same?

Answer 1

No, baking soda is pure sodium bicarbonate, which reacts with acids in other ingredients of a recipe to create CO2 bubbles an lighten the mixture. Baking powder contains sodium bicarbonate and produces CO2 in the same way, but it contains the acid mixed in with it already. Both baking powder and baking soda (which is called bicarbonate of soda in the uk) are used to do the same thing leaven, or lighten up, a recipe. But they are not the same thing.

Answer 2

well baking soda is just baking soda

while baking powder is baking soda plus two dry acids

baking soda reacts with acid ingredient to produce gas or act as a leavening agent

if you don't add baking soda when theres an acid ingredient, the product will be sour

if you don't add an acid ingredient your product will taste both soapy and bitter

baking powder ONLY reacts with the baking soda and two dry acids within itself

it will not react with anything else

it also acts as a leavening agent and produces gas

Answer 3

They are both used as leavening agents which means they are both used in baking to help the bread rise.

Answer 4

They aren't the same thing!

Baking powder and baking soda are both white powders that are used as leavening agents in baked goods, but they are different products.

Answer 5

there both powders