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the cinnamon you actually buy, wearing the name of the cinnamon you think you bought
means Cassia is a type of cinnamon harvested from the bark of trees in the Cinnamomum family (chiefly C. cassia), bolder and cheaper than the prized Ceylon variety, and it's what fills most supermarket spice jars.
from The word travels a long road: Greek kasia, borrowed from a Semitic source (compare Hebrew qetsi'ah), itself likely rooted in a verb meaning to strip or scrape off bark — fitting, since cassia is literally peeled tree skin. It appears in the Bible among precious spices and incense, and reached English through Latin cassia, a name that has clung to this aromatic bark for thousands of years.
- fake cinnamon
- Most supermarket cinnamon is really cassia bark
- liver warning
- High coumarin content can damage liver in excess
- bolder bite
- Stronger, spicier, redder than true Ceylon cinnamon
- buddhist legend
- A cassia tree supposedly grows on the moon
- biblical perfume
- Named in Exodus among holy anointing oil spices
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