>I mentioned in the previous thread from an ethnic grocer. The seven American >grocers (many names) have older cinnamon. It loses the volatile >cinnamaldehyde. It may not be cinnamon at all.
What you find in American grocery stores is cassia, Cinnamomum aromaticum (or C. cassia). Where you have large Hispanic populations, as here, the regular grocery stores also carry real cinnamon (C. verum), called canela; dalchini in Indian groceries. Bob
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