Spanish word for "baking soda" (regional)

Question

I was talking with a friend who lives in the Carribbean and I remember getting stuck on the word "baking soda" as in "Baking soda is a useful thing to have in the house."

Google translate has given me: bicarbonato de sodio. Is there another less technical translation?

I can imagine this being regional. When I lived in Puerto Rico, we often got away with saying the English word, just "Dame el baking soda." Certainly, the box was in English.

Example: What is "baking soda" called in a Mexican grocery store?

Answer 1

In Spain it is sold as bicarbonato sódico:

Usually people just call it bicarbonato because that's the only type of bicarbonate you're ever going to talk about (unless you are a chemist).

Another user wrote a now-deleted answer saying that in Costa Rica they call it bicarbonato too:

As a native Spanish speaker from Costa Rica, when people refer to "baking soda", they just say bicarbonato, and it is inferred that the person is referring to bicarbonato de sodio:

Voy a ir a la tienda a comprar bicarbonato.