# Cinnamon, you cruel cruel mistress
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 18, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272 "2024-01-18T12:01:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/1 "2024-01-18T12:01:23Z")
I’m not awake to be bright, perky, get 'er done early Beck.
Nope.
I sit here contemplating the sad vagaries of my life, sucking down half a bottle of diabetic friendly Pepto stuff, (believe you, me, it’s not half as good as the real pink stuff. In fact it’s yellow).
Wondering if the plop-plop, fizz-fizz stuff is still on the market? Or maybe Tum-ta-tum tum. If I should do my Daddy’s favorite belly-ache remedy, baking soda and water.
I’ve drank lots of water. You know how cinnamon floats on the surface of liquids? That’s inside my tummy.
Yep. Belly ache.
Me and my food fetishes!
This all started with Ivy’s gingerbread over the holidays. I couldn’t have the real stuff. She made me one with fake sugar, cinnamon forward. I liked it. A lot.
So now I’ve been sprinkling cinnamon on everything. Cereal. Bagels. These unsalted crackers with peanut butter. A banana. Yogurt. Butterscotch pudding. Even this lemon tea my daughter made.
I don’t like the powdery foofy kind. I like the more granulated kind. It’s more cinnamon-y.
Yesterday I noticed my hair smelled of cinnamon (yep, Neil Young was singin’ right to my heart). I kinda wanted to lick it.
Now I’m concerned I may have to call the Gastro-doc. “What’s up Doc, I’ve eaten about a pound of cinnamon since December, will I survive?” signed, Spicegirl.
Here I sit, at 5:oh gawd 30. Suffering.
Cinnamon girl, my foot!
What have we learned today Children?
Sometimes too much of a good thing, is a bad, bad, bad thing.
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### Author:  [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/2 "2024-01-18T12:53:09Z")
Beck I’m sad that you’re in distress like that. I didn’t know anyone could eat that much cinnamon - maybe you set a world record.
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### Author:  [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/3 "2024-01-18T13:07:54Z")
Large quantities of [American] cinnamon (aka cassia) can be bad for your liver.
> [@Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across/851674/876):
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> I recently discovered that there are two kinds of cinnamon: [Ceylon, or “true” cinnamon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamomum_verum), and [cassia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamomum_cassia), which comes from a related, but different tree. It turns out that what we in the U.S. know as cinnamon is actually cassia; Ceylon cinnamon is generally not sold in stores. OTOH, in Europe, only Ceylon cinnamon can be sold as “cinnamon.” (I was reminded of this last night when one of the bakers on the Great British Baking Show mentioned she was going to use cassia bark in a recipe.) The taste of C…
If you’ve eaten literally a pound since December, you probably should see your doctor. If you were exaggerating, no worries.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/4 "2024-01-18T13:24:20Z")
Hmm. I sometimes eat cinnamon sticks.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/5 "2024-01-18T17:32:25Z")
I knew the business about cinnamon/cassia thing.
I also knew it’s a homeopathic diabetes treatment. That’s a butt-load of woo-science.
Basically it’s tree bark.
I kept telling myself that as I resisted the urge to sprinkle cinnamon on my toast this morning.
I’m much better now.
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### Author:  [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/6 "2024-01-18T17:39:56Z")
Now that I’m roaring around the bend to old age, I notice my love for some foods is becoming unrequited. Oatmeal? Fifteen minutes of joy, four hours of distress. Cinnamon toast? Mmm, I _like_ that weird fuzzy feeling my tongue has for the rest of the day. Curry? If I take famotidine before and Pepto-Bismol after, it’s _fine_!
I’m realizing that a whole lot of these foods have one spice in common, but I’m choosing to stay in denial. Cinnamon 4 Life!
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/7 "2024-01-19T00:27:04Z")
I think I did too much of the demon-cinnamon in too short of time.
Ivy says if I wait awhile I can eat some in a restrictive manner.
yay.
Little yay. 😑
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/8 "2024-01-19T00:34:45Z")
Penzey’s sells all different kinds of cinnamon, encompassing both true cinnamon and cassia. I used to be able to identify three or four different types in a blind sniff test. That was 10 years ago - I’m not sure whether I could do that now, and I’m not going to buy all different kinds just to find out. I have settled on Vietnamese as the most delicious, and that’s all I buy.
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/9 "2024-01-19T00:49:34Z")
Ginger is my mistress. So cruel a root
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/10 "2024-01-19T00:59:13Z")
I liked the Ceylon stuff. Last week I said I’d possibly be agreeable to meeting a scary dealer in a sketchy dark alley to buy it if it was not available online.
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/11 "2024-01-19T01:23:22Z")
Penzey’s cinnamon, my demon lovers. We have four varieties in the house.
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/12 "2024-01-19T01:39:49Z")
Cinnamon is chock full of healthy polyphenols. You can overdo it. For example, you should never smoke cinnamon sticks.
The cruel mistress of which you speak is perhaps _Cinnabon_. Lord of Hosts and Perfumer to the Wicked.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/13 "2024-01-19T01:42:35Z")
I beg to differ. You can ingest it by eating and have too much. My stomach begs to differ, as well.
😊
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/14 "2024-01-19T02:26:23Z")
All this:
> **[Safety of Cinnamon: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses and Systematic...](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8804376/)**
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> Purpose: Many evidence-based studies have indicated that cinnamon has therapeutic effects. However, it may not be entirely safe and its adverse effects may be ignored. The present umbrella review was conducted to elucidate the safety of...
Just to say that:
_This study summarized existing evidence on the safety of cinnamon, showing that cinnamon dose not cause obviously increased adverse effects when used on a large scale. It also has benefits in the treatment of a variety of diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and cancer. In other words, while cinnamon is effective for many of its benefits, it does not increase the risk of injury or mortality. The results of this study implied that cinnamon can be used as an adjunctive drug in the clinic field in future years, and **its safety can be guaranteed.** _
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/15 "2024-01-19T04:09:16Z")
Oh I believe they did that study. I believe there may be nutritive value in Cinnamon.
As a diabetic I’m almost completely convinced it will not help me. Ever.
I don’t think it would kill me very fast.
I can flatly state, with all truthfulness, the fact it can and does cause some stomach distress. (Not just smoking cinnamon sticks, my god, do people do that?)
I’m proof.
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/16 "2024-01-19T04:23:16Z")
Yeah, the coumarin in Cassia cinnamon can be a hazard. More than 1 teaspoon per day and you may start to harm your liver.
But Ceylon cinnamon, which has a near-negligible amount of coumarin, can be consumed with impunity.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/17 "2024-01-19T05:19:28Z")
Not if you wanna sleep with out a bellyache.
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/18 "2024-01-19T06:53:53Z")
I’ll bet that that study was funded by Big Cinnamon.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/19 "2024-01-19T13:19:02Z")
Thomas Cinnamon raisin bread 🍞 is my weakness.
I remember buying the cinnamon & sugar mix years ago. Sprinkled it on buttered toast. Homemade cinnamon toast 😋. I need to see if they still sell that stuff. Nah, I don’t need the temptation.
I can’t eat Red Hots, Atomic Fireballs, or cinnamon Altoids anymore. My tummy can’t tolerate 😫 the abuse. Too bad, because I loved them for many years.
I have to be careful with cinnamon bread too. Only 2 slices every few days. Otherwise heartburn will get me.
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272/20 "2024-01-19T13:28:12Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> What have we learned today Children?
> Sometimes too much of a good thing, is a bad, bad, bad thing.
Yeah, I love cinnamon, too! My SiL has been bugging me to get a spice rack because my storage area for spices is a jumbled mess of bottles. She said, “See?! You have THREE bottles of cinnamon because you can never find one.” I’d have three, anyway. LOL
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