# 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:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@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): > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinnamon-you-cruel-cruel-mistress/996272)._