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Ingredient notes
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Baking Soda Is Familiar.
The Ritual Calls for a Closer Look.
The Baking Soda Ritual uses a familiar name. These notes separate pantry names from the details on a product label.
Pantry names and product details
One familiar name. Baking soda is the common name for sodium bicarbonate, the familiar pantry ingredient.
Baking powder differs. It combines bicarbonate with an acid ingredient; similar names refer to different contents.
A product has a formula. The Baking Soda Ritual name does not list a commercial product's ingredients.
Product label. Look for named ingredients, listed amounts, and directions on the actual product label.
Names, contents, and labels
Yes. Baking soda is the common name for sodium bicarbonate. Recognizing that ingredient does not identify the contents of a separately branded product.
Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate. Baking powder is a mixture that includes bicarbonate and an acid ingredient; the similar names do not mean identical contents.
The phrase identifies the subject of this introduction. The actual product label is where named ingredients, their amounts, and the product's directions belong.
No equivalence is established here. A familiar name or a similar appearance does not demonstrate matching contents, quantities, or directions between the two.