[sol] Hello Jean, I believe you are confusing baking soda with baking powder. Most baking powders are a mix of ingredients including baking soda, and many do have aluminum, but baking SODA is just baking soda, i.e. sodium bicarbonate (sometimes called bicarbonate of soda) and it has no aluminum.
======================== [Karen] Arm and hammer baking SODA does have aluminum, Bobs red mill baking soda does not. just because it doesn't say so doesn't mean it doesn't. Jean is correct. ======================== There's been a lot of Internet discussion in the past six months about how sodium bicarbonate contains aluminum. My thought, too, was that people were getting confused between pure baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) and baking POWDER (which can contain, and has contained aluminum). It didn't make sense to me that plain bicarbonate of soda would contain aluminum. So about a month ago, I called up Bob's Red Mill company to talk to a rep. I asked her point blank what the scoop was, because Bob's sodium bicarbonate is at least 400% more expensive than good old Arm and Hammer's. She told me that the "baking soda contains aluminum" idea might have been true ten years ago, because of the way baking soda was processed back then. However, she continued, she was pretty positive that Arm and Hammer's baking soda is pure now-and that, given the much higher price of Bob's, she herself would purchase Arm and Hammer. I can only relate the conversation I had with Bob's customer service rep. If people feel better using Bob's than Arm and Hammer's baking soda, that speaks for itself and I would never argue with how someone feels. But I did want to let you all know about my discussion with Bob's rep. Talking chemistry, sodium bicarbonate is sodium bicarbonate is sodium bicarbonate. Nenah Nenah Sylver, PhD author: The Rife Handbook of Frequency Therapy with a Holistic Health Primer & The Holistic Handbook of Sauna Therapy www.nenahsylver.com <http://www.nenahsylver.com/>
