Fruit salts

[vlclabbie]

A teacher heard something about making fruit salts but didn't find anything else out about it & asked me hoping I might know....

Please help me look like a brainiac!!!!!! Coz I really know nothing!

Cheers, Kel

[Lyn]

Citric acid and bi-carb soda was the original fruit salts. Better known now as Enos. Check out the ingredients list on the Enos bottle and work out quantities from what is listed.
Lyn.

[RosalieM]

It is a mixture of bicarb soda and citric acid (I just googled it) but didn't find anything about quantities. Sounds like someone came up with a good idea back in the 1800s and it is still selling!!

[fibreweb]

Each 5gm Enos contains
Sodium Bicarbonate 2.32gms
Sodium Carbonate 0.5gms
Citric Acid Anhydrous 2.18gms
I have a bottle that is now about 10 years old that is used for Acids and bases, and other topics and I just refil it from my Chem store when its empty.

For 200 gms
Sodium Bi-carbonate 93 gms
Sodium Carbonate 20gms
Citric Acid 87 gms

Wendy

[RosalieM]

Way to go, Wendy!! Maybe I should get some for our acid/base things... what do you actually do with it?

[kimmy]

Im with Wendy I have been making up my Enos for many years now in the same old bottle - no one has complained yet. This is a heap cheaper way of having this on hand, they willnever know the difference. What they dont know will not harm them.

Kimmy