Sodium Bicarbonate
NaHCO₃ | CAS: 144-55-8 | HS: 28363000
Product Description
Sodium Bicarbonate is one of the most versatile and widely consumed chemicals across food, pharmaceutical, animal feed, personal care, and industrial applications. Its unique combination of mild alkalinity, safe pH-buffering, CO₂-release on heating, and near-universal regulatory approval makes it indispensable in baked goods (leavening), antacid formulations, effervescent tablets, and flue gas desulphurisation. MITCHEM supplies food, pharma, and feed grades with appropriate documentation including CoA, food additive compliance, and pharmacopeial certification.
Applications by Industry
Used in baking powder and self-raising flour; reacts with acidic ingredients to generate CO₂ bubbles that leaven bread, cakes, biscuits, and other baked goods — one of the largest-volume food additive applications globally.
Active ingredient in antacid tablets, effervescent preparations, and intravenous sodium bicarbonate solutions for metabolic acidosis treatment.
Added to ruminant and poultry feed as a buffering agent to maintain rumen pH and support productivity in high-energy grain diets; an important additive in dairy cattle nutrition.
Injected as a dry sorbent into flue gas streams to remove SO₂ and HCl from combustion gases in industrial boilers, waste-to-energy plants, and power stations.