Cinnamon Sweet and Healthy

Cinnamon is a term for plants that produce the sweet bark. Lay people often see it in the form of small pieces of bark, small, brown and curl. Scent of cinnamon bark is made ​​to be excellent as a flavoring cakes and drinks. Cinnamon is another name cinnamon comes from the Greek word meaning sweet wood. This plant is widely grown in Java, has a maximum height of 9 m with the bark of slippery gray. Spear-shaped leaves with a length of approximately 20 cm and 5 cm. Green leaf on top and white on the bottom. This plant has a small connection, white or yellowish forming clusters. According to one farmer in the Central Malaris cinnamon, Loksado, islands of the Upper South River, South Kalimantan, cinnamon harvested viable if it has berusia10 years and the thickness of the skin has reached about 1 - 1.5 cm.

Part of the cinnamon tree is used in the wood a darker-colored due to the inside of the fragrant smell of the skin while the outer part does not smell fragrant. The inside of the bark is dried in the hot sun. The result will be a rolling bark is then cut along the 5-8 cm into small sticks or ground into powder form.


Cinnamon contains various chemicals which astiri oil eugenol, safrole, sinamaldehyde content, tannin, calcium oxalate, manganese, and iron. In the health sector cinnamon used to lower blood sugar, lowering cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, improve memory, relieve muscle and joint pain, gum and teeth problems, relieve headaches, overcome sore throat, stomach problems and relieve menstrual cramps and eliminates the problem of bad breath. Health problems can be solved by drinking boiled or grated cinnamon can also be mixed into food or drink. As for the problems the throat, mouth sores or bad breath simply by rinsing with boiling water with a ratio of half a teaspoon of cinnamon with a glass of water.

Cinnamon powder stored in the form of more precise and durable that can be stored for 6 months. While not as long cinnamon sticks cinnamon in powder form.

Sources: http://tekcomjar.blogspot.com/2012/01/mengenal-kayu-manis-cinnamon-merupakan.html