Leavening agent
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A leavening agent is an organism or substance that when added to a dough of flour and water causes it to "rise" by evolving carbon dioxide or other gasses that become trapped as bubbles within the dough.
Commonly used leavening agents include:
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- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Leavening_agent" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavening_agent, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
