Is Erythritol acid or alkaline and what is it's pH compared to brown sugar?

In many baking recipes, baking soda is added together with acidic ingredients, such as brown sugar.

Also, this way, the possibly metallic taste of baking soda is neutralized.

Does this applies to Erythritol ? Edit: Sugar alcohols generally are not measured with pH directly, but with pKa indirectly. So in a nutshell, I'd like to know if it would behave more like an acid or as alkaline. For example 180g pure Erythritol (pka 13.903@18degreeC), in 100 ml H2O with 1.2g baking soda.

Some people bake with it and baking soda, some with baking powder (with the rest of ingredients being about the same). In the end it's hard to know which one will give better cooking yield and flavor(based on how it reacts with baking soda) without wasting ingredients... please help!

Best Answer

As a 4 carbon sugar alcohol, erythritol lacks both strongly acid and strongly basic groups. pH of a 1 molar solution will run around 7. It is not going to affect the pH of a solution when you add erythritol. It will affect osmolarity, and water activity but those are different properties.

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What is the pH of erythritol?

Erythritol is a reduced-calorie sugar alcohol that is 60 to 70 percent as sweet as sucrose....Other resources.formatsPowder and granularappearanceWhite crystal granular powderpH level5.0 \u2013 7.05 more rows

What is the pH of brown sugar?

The pH values of the cookie ingredients sucrose, dark brown sugar with high acrylamide (908 ppb), dark brown sugar with low acrylamide (140 ppb), calcium carbonate, chitosan, and chitooligosaccharide were 5.83, 5.77, 6.21, 9.75, 3.62, and 6.26, respectively.

Is erythritol acid forming?

3.5 Erythritol Production Its sweetness level is \u223c70% that of sucrose and it is safe for diabetics because it does not affect blood glucose levels after oral ingestion. Erythritol and other polyols are not fermented by oral bacteria and therefore they do not contribute to acid production that leads to tooth decay.

Is sugar alkaline or acid?

So it's important to take into account which foods are acidic versus alkaline after they are metabolised, as that's what matters to the body. Sugar and artificial sweeteners are highly acidic foods, which is one of the reasons the consumption of sweets has recently been linked to so many health ailments.

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