Cinnamon

Let's start with our gratitudes today.

I'm grateful for cinnamon.

Cinnamon.

I love cinnamon.

I have been trying to create the perfect breakfast.

but including the

pottery ones so so you know what i haven't been eating because a lot of spice you know in my in my day-to-day so they're not i'm going to introduce cinnamon to my porridge.

Cinnamon's wonderful for

It's so good.

Cinnamon?

Hell of cinnamon, bro.

Yeah,

dude.

Cinnamon, a little nutmeg, um, white sugar and brown sugar, uh, And yeah, I pour them in like thirds.

I put like a third of the apples in the thing and then like a tablespoon or a tablespoon and a half worth of like butter chunks sprinkled out and then repeat that until all the apples are in.

Right,

The plantation has its own rhythm, and it has already begun.

Around you are the cinnamon trees, their branches and leaves forming dark shapes in the dimness, their foliage still holding beads of moisture from the night.

Cinnamon is not a towering forest giant.

but neither does it look delicate.

The trees grow in thick green clusters, and their smooth young branches contain the fragrance in a bark that has made Ceylon cinnamon valuable far beyond the island itself.

The bark feels smooth beneath your fingers, cool from the night.

You know that this tree is not harvested by simply cutting down the whole plant.

Cinnamon demands patience.

That's true.

All of our favorite stores and vendors are Deep in Chocolate and Peppermint, Pine and Holly, Ginger, Cinnamon, and Clove.

Many of these products are designed to be enjoyed immediately, whether they are Little Debbie Christmas tree cakes, just ask Scotty about their shelf life, yeah, that's true, or holiday candles.

We've already talked about this.

There's Mr.

Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Paprika, Cinnamon, Sage, and Ginger.

They're

all...

Now Here are some of the most powerful natural antibiotics that do not cause additional harm and kill off bacteria even more effectively than prescribed drugs.

Cinnamon oil.

Actually, when cinnamon oil was tested against drug-resistant bacteria, including E. coli, Cinnamon oil had greater potency than three commonly prescribed antibiotics.

Three commonly prescribed drugs.

Now, when combined with antibiotics, you can combine them.

So I take cinnamon every day.

I put it in at least one of my shakes or some of my food each and every day.

Cinnamon's unique healing abilities comes from three basic types of components in essential oils that are found in the bark.

So essential oils are hot right now.

You probably hear about it.

Under normal circumstances, though, cinnamaldehyde in cinnamon helps to prevent unwanted clumping of the blood.

So a lot of the antimicrobial activity, too.

Cinnamon's essential oils qualifies in antimicrobial food.

Ah, spicy, sweet smell of cinnamon.

Everyone recognizes the familiar aroma of this common kitchen spice.

But did you know that cinnamon is an exotic plant bark with a long history of medicinal use in many countries throughout the world? Cinnamon was listed as an herb with medicinal properties in Chinese literature as early as 2700 BC.

It is described in the Chinese medical text, the Tang Materia Medica, written in 659 AD.

Cinnamon also enjoys traditional use in Ayurvedic medicine, the ancient healing art of India.

It is mentioned in the Book of Moses and has been cultivated in Ceylon and Sri Lanka since 1200 AD, where much of the world's supply is still grown.

In Europe, cinnamon was regarded as a rare and precious spice.

It was also used as an incense and in perfumes.