How to Use Sugar to Cut Acidity

You may want to cut the acidity in foods such as tomato sauce, chili or coffee if you want to avoid acid reflux, heartburn or just to improve the flavor. Sugar can be mixed with baking soda to both reduce the acidity for stomach problems and make a more palatable flavor. Mix a few teaspoons of baking soda in your sugar dish to have an acid reducing sugar pre-made anytime you need it.

Things You'll Need

• Measuring cup
• Bowl
• Measuring spoons
• Baking soda
• Stirring spoon

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Instructions

• 1

  Measure 2 cups of sugar and pour it in the bowl.

• 2

  Measure 2 teaspoons of baking soda and pour it in the bowl with the sugar.

• 3

  Stir the sugar and baking soda together in the bowl and keep covered until use to avoid clumping.

• 4

  Add the sugar mixture to sauces, coffee and in any foods that you need to cut acidity. Add a few teaspoons of sugar to start and taste the food continuing to add the sugar until it is the preferred reduced acidity.