[LRoggy]

What idiots! Raw cinnamon has tremendous health benefits:

http://www.naturalnews.com/041216_cinnamon_ginger_healthy_spices.html#

[boop]

I remember an Alton Brown Good Eats special where he mentioned that what we think is "cinnamon" is not the bark of the real cinnamon tree. The "real thing" is unbelievably expensive.

Kind of like how virtually nobody has had "real" wasabi. Usually it's just colored horseradish. The "real thing" is, again, ridiculously expensive (and rare).

[Pining_4_TX]

Sorry, but really large doses of cinnamon, at least from those found in supplements, are unhealthy.

“If you decide to use a lot of cinnamon, “you do need to use Ceylon because it will lower your risk of liver damage,” says Ms. Ginn, who is an education coordinator at the University of Maryland Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology in Baltimore.”

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303376904579135502891970942

This is why there is (so its claimed) there is a safer cinnamon supplement, Cinnulin PF, that does not have coumarin.

If you use a lot of cinnamon, as I do, it’s probably better to use Ceylon cinnamom. I haven’t noticed a difference in the taste, but some say the Ceylon cinnamon is bitter.