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Check Your Baking Powder!

check your baking powder

 

I always thought baking powder was just an innocuous addition to pancakes, muffins etc… I admit, I never really gave it much thought. I always bought it from my local health food store and made sure to buy the aluminum free package. I just thought that was good enough. WRONG! After further inspection here’s what I found:

baking pwder-001

Corn Starch: high probability it’s GMO

Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate: a buffering and chelating agent that may be very hazardous upon skin or eye contact, inhalation or ingestion, causing severe inflammation

Mono Calcium Phosphates: a leavening agent that softens dough and creates fluffiness. Used extensively in the fertilizer industry. No known side effects (huh?).

Calcium Sulphate (aka calcium sulfate): used as a dough conditioner, to extend shelf life,  a preservative

VERDICT: Baking Powder (with questionable ingredients)…meet trash! Adios!

 

Enter Baking Powder #2

After trashing my first baking powder, I zeroed in on another seemingly cleaner one from my local health food store. Let’s check it out:

 

 Ingredients: baking powder-001

Tapioca Starch: the starch extracted from the root of the cassava plant, used as a thickening agent.

Potassium Bitartrate (cream of tartar): a stabilizer and allows for a smooth texture in baking and stiffness in meringues. Forms at the bottom of barrels when making wine and is a naturally occurring substance in grapes and some other tart fruit.

Sodium Bicarbonate (baking soda): leavening agent

VERDICT: OK

 

I have since done my own bit of research and have learned that there’s really no secret to making your own baking powder.

Home Made Baking Powder

1 tsp baking soda

2 tsp cream of tartar

Mix and voila! I make only as much as I need each time.

 

Also shared on Food Renegade, Designs By Gollum, Real Food Whole Health, Tidy Mom, Ann Kroeker, Nourishing Treasures, This Chick Cooks, Intoxicated on Life, Musings of a Housewife, My Sweet and Savory, Natural Living Mamma, Miz Helen’s Country Cottage

 

Filed Under: Eat Tagged With: baking powder, baking soda, calcium sulphate, corn starch, cream of tartar, mono calcium phosphates, tapioca starch

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