An overwhelming majority of what we eat is made from plants and animals. This means that composition of our almost entire food is chemicals from the realm of organic chemistry (carbon-based large molecules). Water and salt are two prominent examples of non-organic foodstuffs - which come from the realm of inorganic chemistry. Beside some medicines is there any more non-organic foods? Can we eat rocks, salts, metals, oxides... and I just don't know that?

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Bicarbonate soda, used heavily in baking. Vinegar (acetic acid as opposed to natural fermentation)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    acetic acid is organic, as in, it is an organic compound

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Bicarbonate is also organic.

    Edit: I found a source that says an organic compound must have a carbon-hydrogen bond. I knew CO and CO2 were inorganic, but more as an exception.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    i wouldn't say that bicarbonate or carbonate are organic, as derivatives of carbon dioxide. protonation state shouldn't change if compound is organic or not

    neither is CN-, HCN, HOCN, metal carbonyls, oxalates or oxalic acid. i'd say that phosgene, urea and CCl4 are organic. same goes for higher homologs (HSCN, thiourea, thiophosgene, CS2 and so on)

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