how does baking soda help to make cakes and bread soft and spongy?

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Corine answered this

it is because of the chemicals and sodium which makes the cakes spongy

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Height Lucky answered this

Baking soda is otherwise called sodium hydrogencarbonate? During the reaction of NaHCO3 with any acid the products for,ed are carbondioxide , water and sodium salt of the acid u used. Here the CO2 produced during the reaction causes the bread or cake to rise making it soft and spongy.

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Bhumika Chauhan answered this

Baking powder is a mixture composed of baking soda, tartaric acid and starch. It is used in making cakes, breads and other baked food items. While preparing the dough, baking powder is added to the flour. When baking powder mixes with water, then the sodium hydrogencarbonate reacts with tartaric acid to evolve carbon dioxide gas which gets trapped in the wet dough and bubbles out slowly making the cake to rise and hence 'soft and spongy'. This gas is also released when the dough is heated due to the decomposition of sodium hydrogencarbonate. The involved equations can be shown as follows:

NaHCO₃+ H⁺ →Na⁺ + CO₂+ H₂O

$n n 2 n n N n a n H n C n n_{n O n n n 3 n n} n \overset{n \to n}{n} n N n n_{n a n n n 2 n n} n C n n_{n O n n n 3 n n} n + n n_{n H n n n 2 n n} n O n n + n C n n_{n O n n n 2 n n} n (n ↑ n) n n$

Priya Khurana answered this

due to action of fungi on it

Krishna answered this

by the reaction of bacteria {fungus} with baking powder.

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Kanchan Singh answered this

thanks you for answering me

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Sanjana answered this

Tartaric acid helps in making cake or bread soft and spongy. Explain why.

Prince Jaiswal answered this

Ans.?Baking powder?is mixed with the flour. When water is added to this flour to?make?dough,?baking powder?undergoes a chemical reaction during which carbon dioxide gas is produced. This carbon dioxide gas gets trapped into the dough and bubbles out which causes the?cake?to risemaking?it?soft and spongy

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Ridvita Navaneeth answered this

When the cake is baked, the baking soda present in the product reacts with heat and it begins to break down, formimg sodium carbonate, water and carbon dioxide gas (thermal decomposition reaction). When this CO2 is evolved, it bubbles out slowly making the cake rise and becomes soft and spongy.

Amaan Ahmed answered this

it makes cake and bread soft and spongy as the sodium hydrogencarbonate reacts with tartaric acid and creates carbon dioxide which gets trapped in the wet dough which makes cakes and bread soft and spongy making the cake rise to become soft and spongy

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