Ingredients · Baking and dry goods

Bicarbonate of soda

How long it keeps

About 24 months unopened

Source: FoodKeeper (USDA), 213 Baking soda, 2–3 Years · https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fsis-foodkeeper-data

What ends it. It takes up water from the air, which is what makes it cake, soften or grow mould. How to make it last longer

Storage

Cool, dry, airtight. Needs an acid to work. Vinegar, lemon juice or marmalade will do it.

The pack

Typical UK size
200 g
Weight packed
225 g
Volume
230 ml

Computed from net weight and standard pack geometry, not weighed. Manufacturers publish net weight and nobody publishes packed weight or displaced volume, so this is an estimate and is labelled as one.

Per 100 g

Deliberately narrow. These are the five things a long-life diet actually gets wrong, plus energy and protein. It is not a general nutrition model and is not meant to be.

Energy
0 kcal
Protein
0 g
Fibre
not measured
Vitamin C
0 mg
Vitamin A
0 µg
Omega-3
not measured
Sodium
27380 mg

Source: CoFID 2021, 17-356 Bicarbonate of soda

1 recipe using bicarbonate of soda