Effervescent powder
Effervescent powder is a powder used to make fizzy effervescent . In Germany, such a powder is z. B. sold under the brand name Ahoj in stores. In Switzerland, effervescent powder is best known as an effervescent tablet with the brand name Tiki . The same principle as with effervescent powder is also used for fizzy soluble vitamin tablets and similar products. Industrially manufactured effervescent powders can also contain food coloring and other additives.
If a mixture of baking soda (sodium hydrogen carbonate, NaHCO 3 ) and tartaric acid or citric acid is added to water , baking soda and acid react with each other, resulting in sodium tartrate or sodium citrate and carbonic acid , which further breaks down into water and carbon dioxide , which makes the drink fizzy.
Citric acid (C 6 H 8 O 7 ) triggers the following endothermic reaction :
history
Effervescent powder was already being produced in the 19th century . Brause was drunk at the end of the 19th century as follows: “To use, you pour a heaping teaspoon full of effervescent powder into a glass half full of water, stir it once and drink it as quickly as possible while you drink it. (...) Since a lot of carbonic acid is always lost here and the B. is mainly enjoyed for the sake of the carbonic acid effect, it is by far more practical to put the powder dry in your mouth and wash it down with water. ”In England was called the effervescent powder at that time soda powder , 2 g of sodium hydrogen carbonate and 1.5 g of tartaric acid were sold separately in colored sachets and only put together in water immediately before drinking. At the end of the 19th century there were also flavored variants that tasted like ginger or peppermint . It was even used as a powder for medicines to make the taste more pleasant, for example in a sulfur powder.
The first industrially produced shower in powder form was made by the Stollwerck company in Cologne in the 19th century . The powder consisted of evaporated fruit juices, cane sugar, citric acid and sodium hydrogen carbonate.
In 1925 Theodor Beltle from Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt and his brother-in-law Robert Friedel founded Robert Friedel GmbH (Frigeo) , which produced Friedel-Brause as "fizzy lemonade powder for all walks of life". Initially, the shower came on the market in triangular sachets containing two separate tablets with soda and tartaric acid that had to be put into water together. Only orange and lemon were offered as flavors .
In 1951 the SADEX shower sticks came onto the German market. The name was made up of the surname of the company owner Fritz Sattler and the dextrose used .
After the Second World War , ready-made lemonades became increasingly popular, and the effervescent powder, which was now also available with woodruff and raspberry flavor, hardly played a role in drinks. Today, young people sometimes consume effervescent powder together with alcohol, especially with grain or vodka , whereby the powder is mixed with the alcohol in the mouth.
Art, media & literature
Scherbert Lemon is a candy that Albus Dumbledore likes to eat in the Harry Potter novels by JK Rowling . It is the translation for Sherbet lemon , an English lemon drop with an effervescent powder filling. It was also the password to access Dumbledore's office in Volume 2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets .
In Günter Grass' novel The Tin Drum , Oskar Matzerath, who remained small, stirs fizzy powder with spit and lets his lover Maria Truczinski suck this mixture out of her hand. Later they repeat this from Maria's navel. Here the first sexual feelings of the two for each other become apparent.
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- ↑ a b c Article effervescent powder in Meyers Konversationslexikon approx. 1895
- ^ Robert Habs / Leopold Rosner, Appetit-Lexikon, Badenweiler 1997 (EA Vienna 1894)
