The name of bark spice cinnamon is a different as its barks are used as spices. It barks picked up from cinnamon sticks and dried for spices as cinnamon rolls for use. Below is the different name of Cinnamon with two pictures.
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- Spices Name: Cinnamon
- Family Name: Lauraceae
- Botanical name: Cinnamomum Zeylanicum Breyn
Cinnamon is native to India and Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). It is cultivating the Malabar coast of India, Myanmar, South America, West Indies and many other countries.
Cinnamon tree is an evergreen tree. The tree has thick reddish bark. The bark is the main spice of cinnamon. The tree grows twenty to sixty feet high. Its flowers are beautiful and smell. Since four thousand years ago the Egyptians have used Cinnamon. The spice (bark) color is golden yellow.
Essential spices cinnamon nutrition value is good. It contains energy, carbohydrates, fat, protein, minerals and vitamin A, B, C, E and K. We can avail health benefits from cinnamon by using the spice. Cinnamon has a long history as its bark is one of the popular traditional medicines for digestion. It has also history as an anti diabetic spice. Cinnamon is used in food and curry for better flavor and taste. By grinding we can get cinnamon powder as spices also.