Sodium carbonates

How it’s made and used

• Shrimp cooking yield³

  In shrimp, soaking in sodium carbonates increased weight and cooking yield and reduced cooking loss as pH rose.

• Mouth feel of food⁴

  In lab studies, sodium carbonates reduced how green tea flavanols stick to salivary proteins.

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