Will A Strawberry and Baking Soda Mixture Work for Teeth Whitening?
Mixing strawberry and baking soda is another popular idea for teeth whitening. The mixture is often used to create toothpaste. However, this mixture probably won’t work as well as you might hope, either.
Baking soda is indeed effective to remove plaque from your teeth and has natural whitening properties. But mixing it with strawberries will likely create a messy paste that leaves sugar on your teeth, nullifying the benefits of baking soda. [3]
In 2014, the University of Iowa made a study in an attempt to figure out, once and for all, whether the mixture of baking side and strawberry can form a teeth-whitening superpower. The answer was disappointing.
The study involved using strawberries on 20 recently extracted teeth three times over a span of 10 days and didn’t reveal any visible whitening result. Furthermore, three control groups Using more traditional whitening methods did become visibly whiter, both under a spectroscope and to the naked eye.