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Thread: Cinnamon?

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09-11-2007, 01:21 PM

wiseguy

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I am a: Type 2

Join Date: Jan 2007

Location: West Virginia

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Quote:

Originally Posted by xMenace

Household cinnamon is usually the wrong type. You need 'cassia' cinnamon. I've never looked into sources or doses.

Actually, cinnamomum cassia is the type of cinnamon commonly available in the U.S. and is what is found on your grocery store shelves.

From Wikipedia:
"Most of the spice sold as cinnamon in the United States and Canada (where true cinnamon is still generally unknown) is actually cassia."

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