Cinnamon is not cinnamon bark, they are not the same material. Cinnamon is the bark of cinnamon sun sweet, mostly used in pastries, while cinnamon is a collective name for the camphor family camphoraceae spice plants such as yinxiang, Sichuan cinnamon, geranium cinnamon and fine-leafed incense cinnamon, but also one of the main raw materials of thirteen spices.

There are many commercial cinnamon ingredients on the market, and it is known that there are more than a dozen of them, which are mostly used in cooking to make the food taste better. Cinnamon is mostly used in bread, cake flavoring, cinnamon powder can also be used to drink, most of the cinnamon is on the frying time, some marinades in the marinade, may also be used.

Cinnamon is used as an aromatic condiment, in addition to the extraction of cinnamon oil, one of the important spices for the food industry, this thing is also known as incense cinnamon, is one of the earliest spices used by mankind.

Cinnamon because it contains volatile oil and fragrant, can make meat dishes to dispel fishy and unctuous, fragrant and delicious, and then people's appetite. Adding cinnamon in moderation to the daily diet may help prevent or delay type II diabetes caused by old age.

Damp and moldy cinnamon should not be consumed. The amount used should not be too much, the aroma is too heavy but will affect the flavor of the dish itself. Cinnamon has a strong aroma and contains safrole, which can cause cancer, so the less you eat, the better, and should not be consumed for a long time.

Cinnamon powder is commonly used in western countries for baking bread, snacks and marinating meat. Cinnamon oil, in addition to the main components of cinnamaldehyde, but also contains benzaldehyde, cinnamyl alcohol, eugenol, coumarin and more than a dozen other ingredients, widely used in beverages, food flavoring, pharmaceutical formulations, flavoring and high-level cosmetics. Such as cola drinks that contain cinnamon oil.

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