Cinnamon for health benefits

Cinnamon is the dried inner bark of trees in the tropical Asian genus Cinnamomum, a distant relative of the bay laurel.

The uses of cinnamon in cooking are without number and it is use equally in savory dishes and desserts.

It is important for pickling and it is difficult to imagine rice pudding without it.

Cinnamon is often used as an antidote for diarrhea and stomach upset as well as a metabolism booster.

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Compound in cinnamon found to improve the function of insulin, function as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory agents and may be neuroprotective.

The essential oil in cinnamon also act as an anti-coagulant and preventing blood from forming heart attack-causing clots

Other effects of cinnamon are as a sedative for smooth muscle, circulatory stimulant, carminative, digestant, anti-convulsion, diaphoretic, diuretic antibiotic, and anti-ulcerative.

The typical hot, spicy cinnamon aroma comes from a phenolic compound, cinnamaldehyde.  It gives the cinnamon its characteristics odor and spicy, fragrant flavor.
Cinnamon for health benefit