Make your own emo health salts.
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- It appears that the classic "health salts" were pre-dated by a simpler fruit-salt remedy. It's very simple since it doesn't use sugar or Epsom salts. It's just bicarbonate of soda and Citric acid. Latterly they seem to have themed it with fruit flavours for marketing purposes, but having tried it I really like the extreme fizz and clean taste.
Since it now seems to be only sold in places like India, here's how you can make your own. It's super simple, and you don't even need to pre-mix the ingredients.
I've also included my own version called Dr Clive's fabulous Emo-salts (For Goths) that simply nudges the ingredient percentages for convenience. (laziness) with a nudge towards a more pleasing citrus flavour.
![เบิ้ล ปทุมราช - อ้ายกินดอง น้องลาบงัว ft. สแน็ก อัจฉรีย์ [Teaser]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/n863TMuA1Ck/mqdefault.jpg)
Dr. Clive's Emo salts
Cutting-edge refreshment
Available at fine retailers down the lane, not across the street.
@Tyler Bang Andy Sixx's salty log
Shit
Emo health salt, it's like a bowl of dead fruit in every glass.
Emo death salts. Because we know the pain you feel inside
Is fruit alive or dead when we eat it? I'm now confused? Beer might have something to do with it.
I dunno if you're interested in this part, but the stoichiometry of this reaction is:
3NaHCO3 + C6H8O7 = Na3C6H5O7 + 3H2O + 3CO2
3 parts sodium bicarb plus one part citric acid results in one part trisodium citrate, three parts water, and three parts carbon dioxide. Trisodium citrate has a few properties. It can act as an anticoagulant, relieves discomfort of urinary tract infections, and also acts as an antacid. I always thought these health salts were snake oil, because I just figured that an acid + base reaction would result in an inert salt, water and CO2. In this case, the salt that's created (trisodium citrate) is actually beneficial. You could just take the trisodium citrate on it's own, but this method of preparation is more entertaining, methinks.
Makes one think about the old Alka-Seltzer adds with "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz"
Now if you could find what is in Alka-Seltzer.
Alka-Seltzer contains three active ingredients; aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) (ASA), sodium bicarbonate, and anhydrous citric acid.
I have a question : Would monohydrate Citric Acid work the same way as well? Or should we compensate the extra water molecule...
Trisodium citrate is actually used in the healthcare industry as well, we use it as a bulk anticoagulant in certain kinds of blood samples, and in blood packs for transfusion. It's quite interesting because unlike most other anticoagulants it does not damage or make blood components inert in any way, and is quickly broken down over time if introduced to a patient's blood.
You missed the formation of Carbonic Acid.
I had no idea "health salts" were even a thing!
Then again, I live in the American south, making the word "health" about as easy to find as an education.
TDUShelby alka seltzer
Am American as well... what is this "health" you speak of? Sounds like some type of communist plot to take away our guns!!!! Why not just take some Fentanyl or Oxycontin and walk it off like a real American?
Big clive is a dealer from way back haha
Maybe it's just the way I look or the fact i used to be a wall-flower at nightclubs, but people used to ask me for drugs all the time.
People are always asking me for drugs - probably as a result of my career choice ("Your Friendly Pharmacist" ;-D)
Dean Saunderson Just try a puff or two.
@@bigclivedotcom It's the combination of the two
Never tried ENO salts, but when I was in my teens, back in the upper palaeolithic, I would drink a tin of Andrews a week. Used to use it to mix with orange squash and Ribena. Very pleasant. Oh, and don't be tempted to take the scales to America - you would possibly have to do some very fast talking if Customs found them in your luggage.
Stuff like that is very popular with drug dealers over here. Sure there are plenty of legitimate uses, but that's what they're known for.
add about 100g icing sugar, and you have sherbert
it's like Christmas with all these videos, I'm in heaven here. thank you.
We're being spoiled tonight with lots of videos!
Thanks.. 👍🏼👍🏼
Cute drinking glasses Clive. Very snazzy.
I was directed here from your Andrew's video. Both are incredibly useful now that Andrew's has ceased production - and Eno is so expensive.
I think I might play about with other food-safe acids like malic acid, ascorbic acid and tartaric acid (all derived from different fruit sources, I think) to see if I can make different flavours.
Aside: I think it's marvellous that a Scotsman, in particular, is mixing up remedies for over-indulgence in a Glencairn glass : )
Good heavens, YT is obsessed with the Big Clive back catalogue!
I remember "Sparkling ENO's" in the '60s, and good old "Andrew's Liver Salts". Thinking back on it, my grandparents seemed a bit obsessed these things, and I'm sure there were more in the cupboard.
I distinctly remember a late 70s / early 80s UK ad for Lemon Eno, voiced by, of all people, Kenny Everett...
Red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blurred.. I can puke a rainbow, puke a rainbow, puke a rainbow too..
Anybody in the US remember Bromo Seltzer? (here in Baltimore, the Bromo Seltzer clock tower is a tourist attraction) Think granulated AlkaSeltzer in a big bottle that you scooped out what you needed (they were knocked off by the convenience and portability of the packets of AlkaSeltzer).
Thanks for so many videos in the past few days, really interesting to watch and always learn something new!
Oh my, this video brought back memories. When I was a young lad my mother had stuff in the cupboard called "fruit saline" that she would give me when ever I had an upset stomach. I haven't seen it for years, but it's apparently still available, and is essentially like the Eno salts, just with added sugar, tartaric acid and lemon flavouring. We used to make our own sherbet with the stuff by mixing it with icing sugar.
+Geekery It looks like the word saline (containing salt) was used to mimic the "fruit salt" name.
The ingredients in eno literally just reacting away to create trisodium citrate (which is used as a food additive for tartness), which is actually cheaper to buy than the reactants. I imagine it just makes a nice, medicine-y show. The reason it was acidic when you tried a 50/50 mix is that in the proportions they are in eno, you end up with a bit of bicarb leftover from the reaction, which dulls the tartness.
Does it not also carbonate the water?
"Dr Clive's Acid Lab" - you sure know how to reel 'em in! :-D
I finally got around to giving this a try. For you UK folks, you CAN get Citric Acid in Wilko, it's £1 for a 50g pack, but you DO have to ask the helpdesk for it (my local one had a paper note where it would be on the shelf in the Homebrew section), but they didn't ask me any questions about what I was using it for or anything. I also picked up a couple of those small bottles of super-concentrated juice things that you squirt into water to add some flavouring to my Emo Salts and they tasted rather nice
This is awesome stuff!
Thank you Clive for showing us how to make fruit salts.
Where I live we cannot get this sort of thing, so I have no choice but to make it.
I have been using it for a few years now and it is so much better than any sort of antacid on the market, especially with the recent recall of a major brand that contains a cancer causing chemical.
Here's what I learned since I started using this.
01. You have to wait until the heartburn starts or the eno won't do anything, but if you use the eno once the heartburn has started, it will stop the heartburn in less than 20 seconds and the heartburn will not come back, unless you used too little or really over ate and have a lot of acid.
When I used Tum's or various liquid's I would always have to use more and more and risk having acid reflux when I went to bed. Now I can have pizza pretty much whenever I want and just knock back an eno (with pizza a slightly stronger eno) and when the heartburn kicks in, burp a couple of times and then go to bed!
02. After you have made it a few times you can probably stop weighing everything and just eyeball the amounts or use an 1/8tsp to measure out everything. It's not rocket science, you just have to be careful because of the amount of sodium in the baking soda.
03. I mix the eno as I need it.
I dissolve the sugar and citric acid together in about 150ml of water and then in 50ml of water I dissolve the sodium bicarbonate. When the sugar and citric acid is dissolved I add the flavor and give it a good mix and then add in the mixed sodium bicarbonate and the whole thing fizz's up just like Clive's and becomes like a homemade soda.
It sounds complicated, but it just requires two glasses, a small measuring spoon, and it takes about 2 minutes to wait for everything to dissolve before mixing.
If you mix everything in really cold water it won't fizz as much and this will taste less like a soda, but cold mixes usually produce bigger burps, sometimes that is nice.
04. Add a flavoring, it totally changes it from a sort of bland soda water to a crisp refreshing drink.
I usually use orange flavoring but root beer is nice too.
Orange is very refreshing and it will probably leave you wanting another.
Root beer was a pleasant surprise, it tastes just like a commercially produced root beer, which could be a good or bad thing, to each their own.
05. One time I made up two batches (one after the other) in one sitting, but I wouldn't recommend doing this.
It's way too much salt and that's not good for you.
The reason I did it was because I was craving a soda and I stupidly though "hey I'll make eno."
Once is good enough!
I suppose if you could find a sodium free base, then you could use that. If you removed the sodium from the recipe I don't see how you couldn't make your own (temporarily fizzy) soda with it.
I am not a chemist so my advice should be taken with a grain of salt...
Use common sense and your better judgement.
You are responsible for you!
This is awesome stuff!
It's really helped me a lot
Thanks Clive!
Probably the ENO is designed to act as a buffer solution so that it raises the pH of your stomach without going far into the alkaline direction. Your pH paper which was put in the ENO probably continued to change as the remaining CO2 escaped from the water, leaving an excess of NaHCO3. Also, coke and pepsi are usually (here in the US anyway) acidified with a combination of citric acid and phosphoric acid. They really are aiming for a very tart taste. However, your pH estimate may have been skewed by the die in the pepsi. The proper way to determine the pH in this case would be to use a pH meter or to dilute some of it, measure that pH, and then infer the original pH from the dilution ratio. This method is a bit iffy if you aren't sure about the content because salts which act as buffers cause less change in pH per dilution than a simple acid dissolved in water would.
I really have enjoyed watching & learning from several of you videos. You reminded me that one day I was telling my mom that I was out of Alka Seltzer. That's when she showed me to take a teaspoon & scoop up some baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) an then simply add little at a time to a small glass of orange juice (citric acid) (any acetic juice works) until it gets to fizzing like a Alka Seltzer. She didn't mention adding Epsom Salts, but it makes sense. If your a bit constipated I hear it helps (please read the directions).
Emo health salts -- a spoonful a day keeps the posers away!
From what I understand, citric acid is actually derived from a black mold they feed molasses to :O
+sinephase Fungus are used to produce many chemicals and drugs not typically correlated with fungi.
That's correct, when chemists managed to extract it from fungi the old Italian plant grown citrate industry went down the pan. Most oxygen respiring organisms produce citric acid internally.
I used to work in a place with a water quality lab attached. *Occasionally* I would need a morning freshener so used to filch some citric acid and bicarb from the lab. A beaker of that, a couple of aspirin and a coffee and Bob's yer. It's also good for acid reflux (heartburn) - the citric buffers the bicarb so has a gentler action on the stomach - bicarb on its own can make the stomach too alkaline and that just stimulates your digestive system to generate more acid.
That reminded me of the worst case of acid reflux I ever had. I'm not sure what was going on with my stomach, but it got very acidic. I drank some bicarbonate in a glass of water, and I was burping what tasted exactly like carbonation.
If the reader is interested in Eno as an antacid, i have a pro tip which doesn't actually involve Eno at all.
See, when you have heartburn what has happened is that stomach juices (acidic) have pushed up into the esophagus and burned the lining there making the tissues extra sensitive to more acid. You don't need to be messing with the stomach's pH. The stomach can take care of itself. And in fact, drinking a carbonated solution might promote burping, which can let more acid up. What you want to be doing is protecting that tissue that's had it's protective coating burned off. And teh best way that i've found of doing that is to eat a fatty or oily thing. Basically, fat-coat the esophagus. Acid has trouble getting through oil. That's why you clean (degrease) a rusty item before you use HCL to eat the rust off - so that the acid can get to the part. Coconut oil, butter, salami, and yogurt have worked for me.
Oh lord look at the sidebar links for this video...
+Echo_Hotel Mine are very frollard-centric for things I've seen before; nothing out of the ordinary here.
+Fuzzy192006 I have paint on my nails and makeup on my face I'm almost emo enough to start shaving my legs
+Fuzzy192006 Ah well my sidebar was full of emotional health seminars and self help gurus, things I actively avoid so I figured it was keyword matching and placing recommendations in that category for everyone...
+Echo_Hotel Sidebar recommendations are fully customisable, by the algorithm, for every user individually. It takes into account your search and watch history, adds some of the current channel videos; and finishes it off with some text based queues from the title, the description, and the tags from the video. This massive blend of information creates these and other video suggestions. Basically, it's mind reading robots. 😄
What happened I guess was I clicked on a youtube link my grandmother sent me of some vitamin health guru thing once uppon a time and youtube contextually decided this was similar and bombarded me.
Back in the skool-daze I made non-proportionate mixes like this, and a mate said it would be good for drinking the "rapids-ear". (rough translation of our iconic booze of number 013)
most commercial soft drinks are made by carbonating water and then mixing them with syrup in specific quantities. I believe a by product of the carbonation process is carbonic acid which would account for the high acidity.
+Wayne D'Arcy
Yes, as soon as you dissolve carbon dioxide in water you get carbonic acid. But it's gone almost as fast as it is put into the water (when a soda is stale after 10 minutes most of the CO2 is gone). Most of the acidity in soft drinks comes from phosphoric and citric acid, the phosphoric kind being especially bad for your teeth.
Btw. comparing acidity is quite meaningless when dealing with different acids. It does in now way tell you what an acid is actually going to do.
My father used to use Bromoseltzer to treat his dyspepsia fairly regularly when I was a kid. Upon learning from the label that the active ingredient was sodium citrate, I made my own by adding lemon juice from concentrate to dissolved baking soda. No need to add flavour that way.
Oh! Clive! You're a complete nutter but I love your videos. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
You mix sodium hydrogen carbonate with hydrogen citrate, and get sodium citrate and dihydrogen carbonate (=carbonic acid). Carbonic acid then decomposes to CO2 and water. The decomposition is an equilibrium reaction, but CO2 slowly bubbles out, allowing more carbonic acid to decompose, until all is gone.
At first, both the undecomposed carbonic acid and any leftover hydrogen citrate contribute to acidity, while leftover bicarbonate is basic, and pulls the solution towards the alkaline end of the scale. Sodium citrate is also probably somewhat alkaline. As the carbonic acid decomposes, the solution slowly shifts from acidic to alkaline - proof that redox reactions (like the decomposition of carbonic acid) don't preserve pH. Thus, because human metabolism is almost entirely based on redox reactions (which, as we've just seen, can create acidity or alkalinity "out of the blue"), so-called "alkaline diets" are meaningless. Indeed, this reaction is primarily how the body actually controls blood pH, by retaining or expelling CO2 in the lungs to shift the balance between neutral CO2 and acidic H2CO3
I love Eno! When in the bundu, it makes muddy river water taste so much better, and of course, after abusing your stomach with too much spice and garlic, what a relief!! But as a drink in the middle of the night, it beats beer, and squashes that after dinner wine thirst...
Have had many glasses of this when I was a wee lad ( 50 + years ago ) for stomachitis as my mother called it ! 👅
I think pretty much all the colas there are contain mainly phosphoric acid. That's why they work so well as rust removers ;) .
I wanted to try this, but I don't have any citric acid handy. I discovered that, if you add a little bicarbonate to fake lemon juice (Real Lemon, in my case), it cuts the acidity down enough to make it palatable, and makes it all fresh and fizzy, too. Now to find some citric acid.
Be sure your water isn't skewing your results. My water turns out to be slightly acidic, for example, and tainted soil acidity tests until I figured this out.
+Dosbomber I did test the water and it was PH neutral.
That makes sense that eno starts neutral and turns alkaline, you may not want to put too much alkaline in your mouth, but in an acidic stomach it would neutralise it.
PLUS IT COURES CANCER!!111
Eno or Emo?
+zaprodk I put emo deliberately.
+bigclivedotcom LOL!
+bigclivedotcom If it's Emo, why isn't it black?
+Maxx B It's to try and bring some fizzy light into their dark world.
LOL
Woe , this took me back to when i was a kid and we made flavoured fizzy drinks . please , dont ask how long ago , Ha hahaha
I have a lemon tree out the backyard, I might try diluting freshly squeezed lemon in some water and putting a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate in that (little less, little more until the right ratio is found) and see how that goes :)
you're feckin awesome Clive! love your vids. REALLY love your random non leckie vids. keep it up man!
Don't quote me on this, but sodium carbonate is also know as washing soda. It is often recommended for use in electrolysis de-rusting. And I've heard it's possible to bake sodium bicarbonate to get sodium carbonate.
emo salts lol love im going to need to make some.
This used to be called Andrews Liver Salts in England when I was a kid.Once you drunk a glass it was "Brown Rain" within a couple of hours
You can get a similar effect by drinking 700ml of vodka daily for a week. It's good for the vapours too. Oo
Eno, the ambient drink for airports
I use the same EMO salt recipe as a baking powder substitute. Citric acid and bicarbonate 1:1 by volume. Works fine every time.
The thumbnail is great
Eno is an over-the-counter antacid brand produced by Haleon. Its main ingredients are sodium carbonate, Sodium bicarbonate and citric acid.
Isn't the Eno formulation actually a Buffer Solution?
Brilliant stuff if you're feeling a bit ambient. 👍
Add a tot of lime juice and you've got a tremendous thurst quenching properties indeed. Mmmmmm ! Add some sea salt and honey and you have a sports drink too.
The measuring device you refer to, the shot glass is called the "Boat" which sits on the "Pan" and depending on your scales, the pan can be detached, if not, then its a weighing platform.
Morrisons Supermarket sell 'Original Andrews Salts' - " Effervescent Powder containing magnesium sulphate 17.4% w/w, Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate Ph Eur 22.6% w/w and Citric Acid (anhydrous) Ph Eur 19.5% w/w. " Also has a bit of sucrose, to make it less tart.
The main downside I can think of for something like this is the high sodium content; 1g of sodium bicarbonate has about 265mg of sodium. I don't know what the UK recommendation is, but here it's to consume no more than 2400mg of sodium per day. So one serving of "EMO" would consume about 1/3 of the USA's recommended daily maximum intake of sodium.
It's a matter of taste, but I can think of plenty other things I'd rather "spend" my "sodium budget" on. ;)
If one were to crush up two Aspirin and add it to the mix it would be home made Alka-Seltzer, though the proportions are closer to 2-1 sodium bicarbonate to citric acid in that product. I believe the idea is that a more alkaline solution would help with heartburn.
Yes, if you heat sodium bicarbonate (to a pretty high temperature - I think about 200C) you will cause it to give off water and CO2 and become sodium carbonate. However, sodium carbonate has a habit of absorbing water from the air and turning into the decahydrate (10 molecules of water per molecule of Na2CO3 in the crystal lattice). Anhydrous in this case refers to pure Na2CO3 without the water trapped in the crystals, as opposed to Na2CO3*10H2O (the decahydrate). It doesn't refer to the process used to make it from bicarb. Compared to Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Carbonate is more effective at neutralizing acid on a per mass basis and it gives off less CO2 per mole of acid neutralized. It is a more ideal lab acid neutralizing agent for these reasons, although it has the down side that it has a higher pH when dissolved in water so getting it in your eye, for example, could cause damage whereas that is unlikely with the Bicarbonate.
Also I believe you could make proper headache relief (like alka-seltzer) by adding powdered aspirin to this mixture. You apparently can buy 1lb bags of powdered aspirin for about $20. May have to try it some time.
Sodium carbonate is also known as "soda ash".
I believe that the "original Eno recipe" turns green on the litmus paper after some time as a result of oxidation of the citric acid by air.
holy shit I've been trying to figure out what this was since I was a kid. you could buy lemontozu (transliteration of the Bulgarian word) and I've had a craving for it since I moved to the states.
1:39 that's true. Convert in your oven at 400 degrees for a half hour or so depending on the volume.
Dr Clives innocuous refreshment for Emo's sounds okay, but, if you want to stay alluringly beautiful, do regard his comment about purchasing ingredients from reputable souces.
Well well and i have some lemon extract. Thanks
I remember Eno! I had a glass bottle version of it - should have kept it and sold it on ebay. :D
You'd not have gotten very much for it.. I can buy it at any store here. Eno, Salvital, alka seltzer... weird how it's not available in some countries.. lol
Clive how did you do this without refrence to Emo Twinks?
do i guess i cave DR. Clive's EMO Salts a try and i have to say i love it i usually add root beer extract
the ph shift as it sat is expected.. the acid in soft drinks is carbonic acid... as the Carbon dioxide leaves the water, it will shift towards neutral or whatever the ph was before addition of other chemicals.
I think the law has tightened up nowadays on making spurious claims about products having an effect on health. Which is probably, mostly a good thing; otherwise everybody would be making fantastic bit totally bogus claims about the health benefits of everything they sold.
Also, in Ye Olde Days, it was fair to assume if a product merely claimed to be good for your health but without elaborating further, the unspoken claim was that it was supposed to be a laxative; "healthy" without additional qualification was understood asa euphemism for "regular".
Well it's mainly used here for reflux and gas. Plain bicarb works best for that, in a glass of water, but too much sodium is not good, and it tastes not pleasant without the citric acid.
You can use lemon juice also, strangely enough.. Or vinegar... Oo
Funny. I did made that drink quite a few times becaus i like citric acide and bicarbonate. I didn't know it was famous.
Just squeeze some lemon juice into sodiumbicarbonated water, you get the same fizzy drink with fruity bits. I do it regularly instead of drinking sugary drinks like fanta, sweppes, cokes etc.
As per Google you were spot on. Diet Pepsi is 3.03
The Pepsi is more acidic because they inject the CO2 gas into the water directly in the bottle. The gas pressure build-up made the bottle very rigid, maybe 100psi? maybe more. They could use thinner bottle wall and less plastic to reduce cost. Yay environment?
yeah you're right about baking soda (NaHCO3) to get to sodium carbonate (Na2CO3). it is easier to buy a box of arm and hammer super washing soda
you could mix these up into a big 1.25l bottle so you dont have to mix every day. those are built to handle a much higher pressure than soft-drinks make anyway. im not sure if it would handle the equivalent of 1.25l of this reaction but it probably would. and if it doesn't then fun ensues.
would the dark pepsi make the outcome look dark?
@5:30 The drug scale goes off just as the tap does... spooky !!
Probably richer in bicarb so that it can be used as a mild ant-acid for indigestion.
Were I making my own version of this, I'd keep the Epsom salt, since, in moderation, it adds a pleasing grapefruit-type bitterness.
emo Clive... can't imagine it
Basic chemistry that, acid reacting with an alkali to basically form water, with some leftovers that adds the flavour and tartness... :)
But I prefer full-fat Pepsi, the diet stuff contains aspartame which really doesn't agree with me and incapacitates me for a couple of days with excessive use of the throne... :S
As far as I know the predominant acid in Coca-Cola, and possibly Pepsi, is phosphoric acid making it a good rust remover and lavatory cleaner; both better uses for the foul concoction than as a drink
+Silver Legend - Most Colas have slightly different recipes depending on which part of the world they're made / bottled in. Some places use citric acid, some use phosphoric acid, some use a mix of both. Either way, the amount is extremely small; sodas are basically just carbonated water and sugar.
If you're looking for an acidic cleaner, just use a lemon or a lime. It's far more concentrated and generally cheaper.
+Silver Legend Thanks for the correction; however as far as I am aware soda water is simply 'carbonic acid', i.e.carbon dioxide dissolved in water, there is no sugar.
Silver Legend - "Soda water" is indeed the term used when they have no other flavourings, but I didn't write "soda water" anywhere. "Soda" on its own is a generic term for carbonated drinks.
+Silver Legend Again thanks for the info; soda is not a term that I associate with drinks.
Does it taste like alka seltzer? I actually like the taste of alka seltzer weirdly.
do you know anything that you could do with tartaric acid?
And 7 years on, I came back cos I got some bicarb for "rat control", and I already had citric acid for cleaningscaled up stuff with, so, naturally I had to make up some Emo with these ratios... :P
Did you like it?
@@bigclivedotcom Not sure I got the mix right (was winging it, admittedly), so it's a bit too "salty" from the bicarb, and adding sugar made things worse, cos, reminders of an ex who, **ahem**, forgot to clean herself, probably TMI there........ :S
I like to clean the inside of my kettle with citric acid. Descale I should say. Boil then rinse. Cheap.
must be like Sprite or 7-Up without the sugar
Actually since you made the video on the Andrew's Health Salts I've been looking for citric acid to no avail locally. I'm just going to have to buy it online I think. Today my wife and I were at a grocery store we visit about once a month, I told her to be on the look for citric acid, that I wanted to make liver salts, she said, "you want to do WHAT?" I explained your video and me wanting to give it a try, but her initial reaction was great lol.
I wonder if you added a little bicarb to neutralize the soda what that would do to the taste... Either way it looks like the Eno might be the healthiest for you, I've heard that alkaline solutions are good for you and that cancer sells don't like alkaline environments, I'm sure there's no science to back this and it's an excuse for Fiji to sell more bottles of water, though. The Mayo Clinic says this about alkaline water, though: "Because alkaline water has a higher pH level than does plain tap water, proponents say that it can neutralize acid in your bloodstream, boost your metabolism and help your body absorb nutrients more effectively." Could be true, could be false, but it would appear it's quite an old rumor, so there may be some truth to it.
I got my citric acid in the pharmacy ;3
D0senpf4nd I just ordered some from Amazon, I didn't even think about checking the pharmacy. I figured it was more of a food additive than a medical supply heh.
+Jesse Crandle I would read that mayo clinic article again.. I would bet the sentence after that would say how theres no evidence for that. People claiming to sell water filters that change PH of your water to make your body more alkaline claim that nearly all diseases can be cured and are caused by an acidic body. But it's all just pseudoscience.
+Jesse Crandle Pharmacies use it to prepare salves and stuff, but they will happily sell it if one asks nicely ;p
emo health salts title, Mr Clive =D
pour in all the citric acid, i would love to know what happens :D
its amazing what you can find on ebay, couldn't find restriction enzymes though :(
+Carter Cole Even the baddest things get sold under codewords on ebay.
+bigclivedotcom even meter rewinders?
Probably, it's worth using reverse image search and set the limit to eBay. You might find listings using the image.
Add sugar too that & it's pretty much what is sold as Sherbet in Aus.
Seems like the amount of water would be a critical number wrt to taste?
but doesn't the COLOR of the pepsi light have anything to do with the color?
So if you add 250mg of aspirin, you have home made AlkaSeltzer? My grandmother would give us kids a bit of baking soda mixed in water for upset stomach.
so you literally just made green label ENOZ which is sold at all chemist cheap as in Australia and tastes great
On the subject of Bicarb and pH... Bicarb is amphoteric (is it an acid or a base... it's not sure... it one of the floating voters of chemistry)
Eno is still sold in South Africa both in bottles and in sachets.
*edit* Eno is marketed as an antacid for indigestion.
does this work for heartburn? if so I would like to know why if whoever tells me doesn't mind.
half a teaspoon maybe 3/4 at the most of bicarbonate soda in a glass of water & yes my friend it does work for heartburn , indigestion & breaking wind , most times it the only thing that will work for me ....... i take it 2/3 days in a row then 2/3 days off it because it stops working ...........
a small tip beware on how much you take coz it can give you the shits , not being funny but i feel great after that every once in a while lol ......... ( to much info )
you can tare the scales between additions very useful when more than 2 ingredients.
Doesn't the bicarbonate of soda neutralize the citric acid?
You end up with a fairly neutral PH liquid.
Sadly I was around when ENO's was a very popular 'health drink' if you were feeling bilious which was similar to Andrew's liver salts