Making Sherbet🍧🍨🥄

Hello everyone. One tuesday we tried to make sherbet. Here is what we did:

Aim: 

I want to find out how to make sherbet.

Research:

How to make sherbet:

Sherbet

Method:

Equipment:

• Citric Acid
• Raro
• Baking Soda
• Tartaric acid
• Paper

Instructions:

1. Wash your hands
2. Get all required equipments
3. Place the paper on your table.
4. In piles, separate the 3 powders
5. Using your popsicle stick, mix some of each powder.
6. Taste the sherbet.
7. IF there is to much baking soda, add more citric acid.
8. If there is too much citric acid, add more baking soda.
9. If the flavour tastes bitter and sour add more Raro to balance the taste.

Results:

It tasted sour at first but i liked it sour. I had more fizz in my sherbet than taste. I liked adding more raro than fizz so it tasted more like Raro than sherbet.

Discussion:

Why did the sherbet not foam on the paper but it did in your mouth? 

Citric acid and baking soda some atoms contained into these powders turn into carbon dioxide. As the gas escapes the sherbet starts to bubble up in water or your mouth.

What was the chemical reaction in the sherbet?

The foam was caused by the liquids in your mouth which reacted to the carbon dioxide mixed into sherbet.

What type of chemical reaction is this?

Neutralization.