Ammonium Bicarbonate

Ammonium Bicarbonate food grade 99% min

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What is Ammonium Bicarbonate?

Ammonium Bicarbonate is uniquely suited to the leavening of low finished product moisture baked goods like crackers and cookies. It is highly efficient, converting completely to leavening gases.

As a leavning agent, it’s widely used in various applications. For example, biscuit just like baking powder. Furthermore, it stabilizes properties by preserving food, retaining its color, and regulating the acid capacity. You can use baking powder, baking soda, or a combination of the two as a substitute, depending on your requirement.

Ammonium Bicarbonate is uniquely suited to the leavening of low finished product moisture baked goods like crackers and cookies. It is highly efficient, converting completely to leavening gases.

What's the Composition & Synthesis of Ammonium Bicarbonate?

Its preparation involves the reaction of carbon dioxide and ammonia in a cold condition, with ammonium bicarbonate forming as a solid white precipitate. It is represented by the following equation [4]:

NH3 + CO2+ H2O → (NH4)HCO3

The structure of ammonium bicarbonate

Where is ammonium bicarbonate used?

It’s widely used in various applications. For example:

Food industry
It is widely used in the food industry for baking purposes, mainly as a raising or leavening agent to make cookies, bread, cake and crackers soft, light and moist. In the baking industry, ammonium bicarbonate preferred due to the thin, fluffy and crisp texture it gives baked products like crackers.
●  By expanding the walls of baked goods, bicarbonate raises them, making them tender, moist, fluffy, and lighter in texture.
●  It helps to adjust the PH of the dough by controlling the color of baked products by darkening the color, whitening bread crumbs, or retaining them.
●  It speeds up the baking process, saves time, and preserves foods by modifying the taste, aroma, and flavor of biscuits, cakes, crackers, and other baked products.

Chemical field:
1.Producing ceramics, porous plastics, dyes, and pigments
2.For scale removal in boilers and as a foaming agent for rubber

Agriculture:
Added to compost heaps for accelerating the rate of decomposition and using them as fertilizers.

Pharmaceutical industry:
It is a good buffer (because of its volatile nature) in pharmaceutical applications like lyophilization (freeze-drying) for producing injectable and oral dosage forms

Medicine:
Used as a component of human and vet medications.

Ammonium Bicarbonate VS Sodium Bicarbonate

The similar of Ammonia bicarbonate and sodium bicarbonate:

Ammonia bicarbonate and sodium bicarbonate are chemical leavening agents. They act mainly in an acidic environment. The action of both is similar. This makes them interchangeable.

Which type of leavening agent to use is a matter of taste and depends of the type of recipe itself. There are no strict rules.
In cooking, it is accepted that with ammonia bicarbonate cookies are prepared and with sodium bicarbonate, along with acid or baking powder, mostly sponge cakes are prepared.

The different of Ammonium Bicarbonate&Sodium Bicarbonate：

Ammonium bicarbonate will also decompose during baking and release ammonia and carbon dioxide leavening gases without reacting with a leavening acid. Ammonium bicarbonate leaves no residue when it decomposes by heat. It, therefore, has no effect on the pH of the baked product.

Sodium Bicarbonate(baking soda): In cooking, baking soda is primarily used in baking as a leavening agent. When it reacts with acid, carbon dioxide is released, which causes expansion of the batter and forms the characteristic texture and grain in cakes, quick breads, soda bread, and other baked and fried foods.
Additionally, in the absence of acid, thermal decomposition of sodium bicarbonate also produces sodium carbonate, which is strongly alkaline and gives the baked product a bitter, "soapy" taste and a yellow color.

What's the advantage of food grade ammonium bicarbonate?
*They are various ways you can benefit from using food grade ammonium bicarbonate like:

● It is a mineral salt that is primarily used as a leavening in flat-baked goods such as cakes, cookies, bakery products, and bread. It raises these baked goods that make them tender, moist, makes their texture lighter.
● It is used to stabilize properties by preserving food such as cold food and beverages.
● It helps to retain its color and aroma.
● It regulates the acid capacity.
● When baking, it can be used as a substitute for baking powder and baking soda or as a mixture of the two.
● It has a component useful in food preservation.

What's the defect of food grade ammonium bicarbonate?

● If not stored properly,maby the ammonium will spill， makes it unsuitable for raising the dough in baking.
● Most of the time, it doesn't cause health problem, but swallowing or inhale  too much ammonium bicarbonate at one time or contact with skin, it also leading health problem, such as an irritation to the eyes, skin and respiratory system.

Is ammonium bicarbonate a safety food additive?

Yes.

Ammonium bicarbonate is a safety food additive, and it has been guaranteed by Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the food industry, It is used as a leavening agent for baked goods, ensuring that carbon dioxide bubbles are introduced into the dough. The leavening action with the aid of food-grade ammonium bicarbonate ensures the baked products are made tender, moist and fluffy. Furthermore, it makes their texture lighter.

Properties and Characteristics of Ammonium Bicarbonate:

Color and Appearance:	White Crystalline powder or granular with slight ammoniacal odour.
Properties:	Non-toxic, Ammonia smell. Soluble in water, aqueous solution alkaline, insoluble in ethanol.
Melting Point:	41.9 °C, 107.4 °F (decomposes)
Melting Point :	1.586 g/cm³
PH:	7.8
State of matter at room:	Crystalline solid
Solubility:	Soluble in water, insoluble in acetone, benzene, methanol, and ethanol.
Solubility in Water:	22 g/100 cc at 20 °C

Specification for your reference:

Item	Standard	Result
Assay(As NH4HCO3)	99.0~100.5% min	99.79%
Chloride(As Cl)	0.003% max	＜0.003%
Sulfide(As SO4)	0.007% max	＜0.005%
Nonvolatile Matter	0.05% max	0.02%
Arsenic(As As)	0.0002% max	＜0.0002%
Lead(As Pb)	0.0002% max	＜0.0002%
Sulfonate(As Sdbs)	0.001% max	0.00024%
Moisture%	<0.4%	<0.4%
Salmonella	Not available	Not available

Packing & Loading:

Packing details: 25kg plastic inside with the weave outside.
Loading: 27 tons/20’FCL

Storage:

Store in cool and dry place, moisture-proof, rain-proof and sun-proof.

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