10 facts about cinnamon

10 facts about cinnamon

Cinnamon is favourite spice of many housewives. Let's discover some known and not really the facts about this fragrant component.

1. Cinnamon is internal bark of trees of cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum).

2. Cinnamon is spice which can be applied to juicy or sweet dishes.

3. Cinnamon – the oldest known seasoning. It is mentioned in the Bible and used by ancient Egyptians not only for fragrant drinks and as medicine, but also as the embalming agent. It was highly appreciated and from time to time was considered more expensively than gold.

4. Cora of whom cinnamon is made, – the only spice which can be used directly in pure form.

5. There are four kinds of cinnamon. The Ceylon cinnamon and kassi is most widespread. Species of trees differ in texture, color and slightly in taste of the bark.

6. In the Chinese traditional medicine cinnamon was used for treatment of colds, abdominal distension, nausea, at diarrhea and painful menstrual spasms.

7. The Ayurveda orders to treat diabetes and to improve digestion by means of cinnamon.

8. The numerous researches proving advantage for health of cinnamon have been conducted. Some of them have shown that cinnamon regulates sugar level in blood, the smell of cinnamon stimulates activity of brain, it is natural food preservative with antimycotic, bactericidal, anti-parasitic and anti-inflammatory properties.

9. Cinnamon contains magnesium, food fibers, calcium, iron and zinc.

10. Attempts to play bet on cinnamon powder eating * not only silly, but also dangerous.

* If you did not hear about the game Call to Cinnamon yet, consider, you were lucky. Extreme game is so fascinating that forces to forget about safety of the playing.
The call to cinnamon (Cinnamon challenge) has rather simple rules. Playing has to eat spoon of ground cinnamon, without washing down it with anything.
Only at first sight the task seems simple. Actually small motes and particles densely stick to mucous mouth and even nose, and here are not going to be dissolved at all. Slow dissolution of cinnamon in mouth can lead even to vomiting.
Without washing down cinnamon, the person can choke with cinnamon powder, but even it does not stop teenagers and adults from around the world. However, doctors very strictly prohibit such entertainments. Not for long and to get into hospital, after all cinnamon dust not only disturbs breath, but also can cork lungs, having led to suffocation.

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