Vietnamese Cinnamon - 2.45 oz. Simply Organic

Simply Organic - Vietnamese Cinnamon - 2.45 oz. (69 g)

Nothing but pure, Simply Organic Vietnamese Cinnamon (Cinnamomum loureirii) - that most popular of spices - comes from the bark of an evergreen tree. Warm and radiant aroma. Simply Organic Vietnamese Cinnamon's sweet, spicy and warm fragrance adds pungent sweetness to your favorite baked goodies. You can also use Simply Organic Vietnamese Cinnamon to add a depth of flavor to savory dishes as well. This is what real Vietnamese cinnamon tastes like. (Also known as Saigon cinnamon, if you’re wondering.)

• True & Vibrant Color
• Intense, Sweet, Hot-Cinnamon Candy-Like Flavor! 
• No GMOs
• No ETO (considered carcinogenic by the EPA)
• Not irradiated
• Certified Organic by QA
• Kosher Certified by KSA

Botanical name: Vietnamese (Cinnamomum loureirri) Formally known as Saigon cinnamon, this special variety is rebounding in popularity in the U.S., following a more than 20-year absence. Compared to Indonesian types, Vietnamese cinnamon has a distinctly sweet flavor and an exceptionally high volatile oil content. Gourmet cooks rate it as the highest quality cinnamon in the world.

To harvest cinnamon, the inside pulp of the evergreen is scraped out, then ground, and the quill pieces (cinnamon sticks) are selected for drying and grading according to size, color and quality. Trimmings and waste pieces are sold as cinnamon chips or used to distill the essential oil. The cinnamon is then graded according to quality. Grade A cinnamon has the highest oil content and the most intense flavor and aroma. In addition, quills harvested for Grade A cinnamon must be one meter long and taken from the main trunk of the tree.

Cinnamon is valued today for its carminative, antiseptic and astringent quality, and its medicinal significance is still being explored. Dr. Richard Anderson, Ph.D., lead scientist at the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsvil:" ": of cinnamon is laced with legend, exotic trade routes and struggles for monopoly. The ancient Chinese believed that the cassia tree--which flourished in the Garden of Paradise on the Yellow River--was the "Tree of Life." Eating its fruit, they said, led to immortality. Ancient Egyptians used cinnamon for medicinal purposes and embalming, and the ancient Romans enjoyed it in wines and as a fragrance, beauty-salve and aphrodisiac. When Nero killed his wife, Poppaea Sabina, he had all the cinnamon in Rome (a year's supply of imports) burned in homage at her funeral.

Columbus sought this exotic spice, and in 1505 it was "discovered," in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) by the Portuguese explorer Lorenzo da Almeida. Control of the cinnamon trade meant power; in 1760, all of Holland was scented when Amsterdam's cinnamon supplies were burned in an effort to keep prices up. At the same time, the penalty for the illegal sale of a single stick of cinnamon during Dutch control was death!

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