Ammonium Bicarbonate

Product Details

Food grade ammonium bicarbonate is a white-crystalline powder used as a raising agent in baking industries to baked goods like biscuits, cookies and cakes that decomposes to carbon dioxide, water and ammonia that makes the baked goods rise.

It has a faint ammonia odor and, it is a mildly inorganic compound. It’s also highly soluble in water and has a strong smell of ammonia that regulates the PH value of the baked products.

Ammonium hydrogen carbonate or powdered baking ammonia is another name for this compound. It has a chemical formula of NH₄HCO₃ and a chemical structure of ammonium cation (NH4+) and bicarbonate anion (HCO3-).

It has chemical properties such as its insolubility in alcohol and has a PH value of 7.8. It dissolves to form a milky alkaline solution; when heated, it decomposes, and ammonia, carbon dioxide, and water are the products. It may burn but does not readily ignite.