Featured Product
Milk Thistle DandelionBy combining the Milk Thistle extract with pure, freshly powdered, certified organic Milk Thistle seed, this formula blends...
Product Categories
- Bulk Herbs
- Capsules, Non-GMO and Vegetarian
- Children's Herbs
- Culinary Herbs and Organic Spices
- Gluten-Free
- Herbal Extracts with Organic Alcohol
- Herbal Extracts, Alcohol-Free
- Men's Herbs
- Organic Teas
- Specialty Herbal Products
- Supplies: Bottles, Containers, Tea Preparation
- Topical Herb Applications
- Women's Herbs
Conditions
True Cinnamon
Essential Oils in Cinnamon Species. Cinnamaldehyde is a constituent that has been studied in both plant species, but is higher in the true cinnamon. A 2006 study implied that it may be the cinnamaldehyde that is responsible for the activity of Cinnamon.
Both cinnamaldehyde and eugenol are responsible for cinnamon's potent antioxidant abilities. Eugenol is the same constituent found in cloves that accounts for it having the highest Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) of all food-borne substances. Therefore, true cinnamon is a superior antioxidant by this assumption.
Recently, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Germany declared that they are assessing the potential health risk for consumers from coumarin in cassia-containing foods and aspire to establish a Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI). However, true cinnamon naturally has 10 times less coumarin than cassia, regardless of whether it is water-extracted or taken in whole form.
