Cinnamon Sweet and Healthy

Its fragnant smell and distinctive taste that makes cinnamon is used as a complement to the cake or drinks. In addition to fragrant and sweet, cinnamon also useful to health problems by body perceived. Let's get acquainted with these sweet spices. 

• Cinnamon

Name of Cinnamon comes from Greek, this word meaning sweet wood. These plants grow in java island. Included in family Laureceae, cinnamon tree have scientific name zeylanicum, this tree has a max. height of 9 meters with smooth bark gray. The leaves are lance-shaped eye with a lenght of about 20 cm and a width of 5 cm. The Leaves are green on top and white on the bottom. Small flowering with whhite or yellowish forming clusters.

Part of cinnamon tree used is wood inside a darker color because on inside of fragrant smell of the skin while the outer part does not smell nice. The inside of the bark will be dried in the sun. The result, the bark will form a coil which is then cut into 5-8 cm long stalks of small or ground into powder form. Forms like thes that we usually find and used as fragrances and flavor enhancer in foods, beverages or used as aromatheraphy and perfume materilas.

• How to eat Cinnamon

Use cinnamon sticks as stirrers in a small size hot beverages such as chocolate, milk, hot cereal drink or along with the tea brewed. Combine cinnamon powder in a cake or add small pieces of cinnamon to decorate your cake. Used as a condiment in dishes such as make a rice, pasta meat or vegetables.

• Benefits of Cinnamon

In addition as fragrances and flavor enhancer in foods and beverages, cinnamon hame some efficacy to relieve health problem because contains manganese, iron and calcium. The benefits to health problems, among others lower blood sugar, lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, improve memory, relieve muscle and joint pain, gum and teeth problems, ulcers, relieve headaches, migraines, alleviate stomach problems and cramps during menstruation as well as eliminating the problem of bad breath.