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Bicarbonate de sodium in food supplements

32 supplements declared in France contain Bicarbonate de sodium as a substance or active ingredient.

Other names in the Compl'Alim list: sodium bicarbonate.

Compl'Alim declarations. Compl'Alim, food supplement declarations (France), retrieved 23 October 2026.

What we know about this ingredient

Uses

  • ... Artificial mineral water, baking powder; ...pharmaceuticals; sponge rubber; gold and platinum plating; treating wool and silk; ... prevention of timber mold; cleaning preparations; lab reagent.

  • For sodium bicarbonate (USEPA/OPP Pesticide Code: 073505) there are 0 labels match. /SRP: Not registered for current use in the U.S., but approved pesticide uses may change periodically and so federal, state and local authorities must be consulted for currently approved uses./

  • MEDICATION (VET)

  • Manufacturing many sodium salts; source of carbon dioxide; ingredient of baking powder, effervescent salts and beverages; in fire extinguishers, cleaning compounds. In buffers; in analytical chemistry for pH adjustment.

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Larranaga, M.D., Lewis, R.J. Sr., Lewis, R.A.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 16th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ 2016., p. 1234; National Pesticide Information Retrieval System's Database on Sodium Bicarbonate (144-55-8). Available from, as of October 10, 2017: https://npirspublic.ceris.purdue.edu/ppis/; https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/source/hsdb/697; O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 1594.

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Use classification

  • EPA Safer Chemical Functional Use Classes -> Processing Aids and Additives

  • Safer Chemical Classes -> Green circle - The chemical has been verified to be of low concern

  • Food additives

  • Cosmetics -> Buffering; Deodorant; Abrasive; Oral care

PubChem : EPA Safer Choice · 2026-10-29 · https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/safer-ingredients.

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PubChem : EU Food Improvement Agents · 2026-10-29 · https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/231/oj.

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PubChem : NORMAN Suspect List Exchange · 2026-10-29 · S13 | EUCOSMETICS | Combined Inventory of Ingredients Employed in Cosmetic Products (2000) and Revised Inventory (2006) | DOI:10.5281/zenodo.2624118.

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No natural occurrence recorded in Wikidata (LOTUS database); this does not prove that the ingredient is synthetic.

Basis: one CosIngThe European Commission's database of cosmetic ingredients. CAS, with no natural occurrence recorded in this database.

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Manufacturing

  • ... Reaction of sesquicarbonate with carbon dioxide recovered from a sodium phosphate plant.

  • Prepared from sodium carbonate, water and carbon dioxide

  • Principally by treating a saturated solution of soda ash with carbon dioxide to precipitate the less soluble bicarbonate; also by purifying the crude product from the Solvay process.

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 4th ed. Volumes 1: New York, NY. John Wiley and Sons, 1991-Present., p. V1 1037 (1991); O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 1594; Larranaga, M.D., Lewis, R.J. Sr., Lewis, R.A.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 16th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ 2016., p. 1234.

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Appearance

  • White crystalline powder or granules

  • White powder or crystalline lumps

  • White, monoclinic prisms

  • Sodium bicarbonate appears as odorless white crystalline powder or lumps. Slightly alkaline (bitter) taste. pH (of freshly prepared 0.1 molar aqueous solution): 8.3 at 77 °F. pH (of saturated solution): 8-9. Non-toxic.

  • Colourless or white crystalline masses or crystalline powder

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 1594; Larranaga, M.D., Lewis, R.J. Sr., Lewis, R.A.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 16th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ 2016., p. 1234; Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 4-90.

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PubChem : CAMEO Chemicals · 2026-10-29 · https://cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/21013.

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PubChem : EU Food Improvement Agents · 2026-10-29 · https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/231/oj.

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Odour described

  • Odorless

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Osol, A. and J.E. Hoover, et al. (eds.). Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences. 15th ed. Easton, Pennsylvania: Mack Publishing Co., 1975., p. 736.

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Stability

  • Stable in dry air, but slowly decomposes in moist air

  • Stable under recommended storage conditions.

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Osol, A. and J.E. Hoover, et al. (eds.). Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences. 15th ed. Easton, Pennsylvania: Mack Publishing Co., 1975., p. 736; Sigma-Aldrich; Safety Data Sheet for Sodium bicarbonate. Product Number: S5761, Version 4.9 (Revision Date 04/27/2017). Available from, as of October 17, 2017: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/safety-center.html.

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Taste described

  • Cooling, slightly alkaline taste

  • Saline and slightly alkaline taste

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Larranaga, M.D., Lewis, R.J. Sr., Lewis, R.A.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 16th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ 2016., p. 1234; Osol, A. and J.E. Hoover, et al. (eds.). Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences. 15th ed. Easton, Pennsylvania: Mack Publishing Co., 1975., p. 736.

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Other names: Natriumhydrogencarbonat (German), bicarbonato de sodio (Spanish), bicarbonato di sodio (Italian), bicarbonato de sódio (Portuguese).

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Same substance in cosmetics: SODIUM BICARBONATE.

In plain words

À quoi il sert, selon les fabricants

Objectifs les plus souvent annoncés pour les compléments qui en contiennent (Bicarbonate de sodium) : sport (10 produits), antioxydant (3 produits), immunité (3 produits), santé bucco-dentaire (2 produits), digestion (1 produit).

Ce sont les objectifs déclarés par les fabricants à l'administration, pas des effets démontrés. Sur l'emballage, seules les allégations de santé autorisées par l'Union peuvent être écrites.

Compl'Alim, food supplement declarations (France), retrieved 23 October 2026.

What the registers say, country by country

Each line repeats what an official register says on the date it was consulted. Not being in a register means neither allowed nor banned.

Health claims register (European Union): 0 authorised and 1 refused claim(s) for this substance.

EU Register of nutrition and health claims, retrieved 21 October 2026.

Compl'Alim ingredient list (France): listed.

Compl'Alim, reference list of ingredients, retrieved 21 October 2026.

Canada, licensed natural health products (LNHPD): 7 products.

Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD), Health Canada: licensed products, ingredients, doses, uses and risks, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Health Canada, LNHPD)

Licence du gouvernement ouvert – Canada 2.0 (OGL-Canada 2.0)

United States, supplement labels (DSLD; supplements need no prior approval): 145 products.

Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD), US National Institutes of Health: current and off-market labels, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Source: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Dietary Supplement Label Database (CC0); US market labels.

Poland, notified supplements: 1 product.

GIS, products notified in Poland, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Główny Inspektorat Sanitarny (GIS), Rejestr produktów objętych powiadomieniem

CC BY 4.0

Taiwan, registered products: 38 products.

TFDA, Taiwan tablets, capsules and medical nutrition registers, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA), Open Government Data License, version 1.0

Open Government Data License, version 1.0

United States, supplements listed by the USDA: 47 products.

USDA FoodData Central Branded, supplement cohort, retrieved 29 October 2026.

Source : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central, Branded Foods. Données publiées sous CC0 1.0 Universal, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.

CC0 1.0 Universal, domaine public

Declared daily quantities

Declared daily quantities: Bicarbonate de sodium
UnitProductsMedianMinimumMaximum
mg31346.514,000

Calculated from Compl'Alim declarations that provide a quantity. These are quantities declared by manufacturers, not measurements, and preparation is not distinguished (powder, extract of varying concentration): differences between products can be very large.

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