What is Baking soda?
Known as baking soda, sodium bicarbonate is a component that first appeared 4 million years ago when salt lakes all over the world started to evaporate and produce trona deposits. Trona is the rock that is used to manufacture the naturally occurring mineral soda ash (sodium carbonate). Baking soda can then be produced by processing soda ash. Wyoming is home to the largest trona deposit in the world. In 2015, 17 million tons of the material were produced in the region and exported around the world. It is generally known as a baking ingredient giving certain foods such as bread and muffins a fluffy texture.