"Meryl" > wrote in message
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> Hi all,
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> I'm posting for my 7 year old daughter. Hope you can help her! She made
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> lemonade Saturday and added alot of sugar - a whole cup.
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> I seem to remember from high school I can reduce sourness by adding
> baking soda. Did the sugar reduce the acid or hide it?
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> Just cureous.
>
> Meryl

Refined sugar is acidic.

Dimitri