How Cinnamon Works

was bourbon. It was delicious, Okay, cool, so very smooth. Let me let you in on a little, little little known fact you've told me, but tell everyone else about. Yeah, it's a big deal, man. I think we need to spread the word. So you know, all those little small batch distilleries that make rye, and they all have these crazy back stories and all that stuff all almost across the board lies most of the small batch rye and sold in the United States by craft distilleries is made

in a single factory in Indiana. Josh is using a lot of air quotes then, including on Indiana, which I didn't quite get. And then they sell it to these people who like put a new label on it, mark the price whatever they want, even though it's the same thing you're drinking, whether it's this craft distillery, that Crestility, it's literally the same rye. Put a folksy backstory on and then you're a chump for buying it. That's that's

not truth, bourbon, it's just this rye. But a good giveaway is is the ry you're drinking five year old rye and the distillery has only been around since last year. Probably a pretty good bet that they bought and rebottled it. And that is a true Josh fact. Not like the cigars are supposed to be inhaled when that's yes, that's it's tobacco. What do you think you do with tobacco? Cigar writers right in? Yeah, man, I will forever stand behind You're supposed to inhale cigars. All right, all right?

I mean you're just puffing your mouthful of smoke for no reason. Why Why would you do that? What's the point of that? I don't know? Man. Well, okay, so not only can you do you have to write in and say yes, you're you're just supposed to puff on a cigar, not inhale. You have to explain them what the point of a cigar is. You know, you can read up on this. It's pretty easy. That's fine. Okay.

I don't need to breathe them. I know that. I'm right. Okay, okay, So you sit in your flooded yard and inhale cigars all day long. It's right. We should just have an episode where we do this and just shoot the breeze. I think this is called arguing, not shooting the breeze. Shooting the breeze is talking about football scores and the weather and all that stuff. We could argue about football scores. There is a did the Falcon win or did they lose? Dude?

They lost to the Browns. Yeah, they played the Browns, but it was a close gaming for a while, right. It was a heartbreaker. The terrible, terrible, terrible team. I hate them. See, that's shooting the breeze. Right, So you mentioned cigars, which actually provides a segway. So let's walk it back to it. Okay, there's actually if you think of cinnamon, which is what we're talking about today. Yeah, one of our commodity podcasts. Yeah, which is the original

name for the house stuff works TV show. Yeah, little known, little known fact. Um. But if you think cinnamon, you think of like, you know, you go up to the grocery store and you pick up like that metal cannam ac cormicks and you shake it and it makes that nice hollow tinny sounds. Yeah, okay or yeah. I guess you can think of ground cinnamon too. I forgot about

that stuff. But when you think cinnamon sticks, that's what you think of, right, And you pop the top open and you shake a couple out and you look at them and it's like a it looks like a little stick, and if you look really closely, like curled, right, and then like you um, put it back in the can and put it back on the store shelves and wipe

your hands and go walk away. But what you would probably be surprised, I find, would be if you dumped one of those out into your hand and it looked kind of like a cigar, like rather than hollow and curled. When you're looking down the barrel, it looks stuffed like a cigar. But if you did see that, what you would have just come across is clon cinnamon, also and appropriately known as true cinnamon. Yeah, also known as tree bark yeah, which to me is the fact of the podcast.

I had no idea that cinnamon was tree bark. Yeah, But think about it now that you know that, When you think about what cinnamon sticks look like, it makes sense. It looks like curl up tree bark, which is exactly what it is. Man. We could quit now and people have gotten their zero dollars worth. I know, I know, it's like lightning in their headphones. But we won't because we're gonna tell you more than you ever needed to know about cinnamon. Obviously. The stick form is how you

can buy it. Also, buy the powdered form and sprinkle it on some bread with some butter and sugar. Yes, salmon toast delicious. If you have an orchid that you've ever over watered um, you want to take some scissors and trim off any rotted roots and then dab them in cinnamon and it staves off any infection. I just recently brought an orchid back using cinnamon as an anti

microbial or fungal. I guess Emily has made an all natural flea uh preventative, preventive, preventative preventative for our dogs. It's Uh, it's got cinnamon oil, essential oil, and some other I think eucalyptus and maybe camp for And then you know something that's all distilled or not distill but mixed with olive oil and water and uh it's like all natural. We splayed on a spread on a little bandana and tying around next. Nice. Um. It's also a

proven mosquito repelling and killer of mosquito larva and natural pesticide. Right. Plus it's a dynamite name for a pet. Cinnamon, it's pretty much got at all. That's pretty good. Again, we could stop here, but we won't. Uh. So cinnamon the commodity spice. It has a pretty long history actually, Um, I read that it first pops up in writing in b C C b C b C. Yeah, that's a long time ago, in a Chinese text about botanical medicines. Yeah, that makes sense because of all the things we just

mentioned you can do with it. Yeah, and then Moses was messing around with it in the Old Testament. Yeah, he used it in his anointing oil, his uh Moses brand anointing oil right that he got rich off of. And uh, Egyptians supposedly used it for embalming. For so, I looked that up because it stica was kind of like in the weird and um, I think they used it to mask the smell of embalming during embalmment. It

makes a little more sense. Well, that's used in embalming, I guess just as but not as the agent embalming agent, right, but it may have been part of the embalming agent. Okay, Well, they definitely used it to when they would burn, uh with funeral pires when they had burned bodies, they would use cinnamon because it's so aromatic and pungent and dead burning bodies are stinky, right, But it was also extraordinarily expensive. Apparently Pliny mentioned that, um at is there any other uh?

He mentioned that at some point the cost of cinnamon a pound, the equivalent of a pound of cinnamon would have been ten months wages for the average Roman. Um So they I mean they used it, but they used it fairly sparingly, which is to say, um Nero burn Euro who didn't fiddle while Rome burned? By the way, No, no, uh, he burned apparently like a year's supply worth when on his wife's funeral. Higher just basically basically show off, I

would guess. Yeah, I was thinking that while I was reading this about how I thought it was kind of funny how spices used to be so like the trade and so expensive, and then when I go to the store, it was like, spices are still kind of expensive some of them. Yeah, ten months wages worth it. No, but

it's not a lot of slavery associated with it. No. But if you're paying like I guess it's because of the size of the thing you're paying, like sometimes like six dollars for a little no, I know what you mean, a little tiny jar of it, or what's the like compared to affron Man super expensive it is, although Trader Joe's has some for a reasonable price. Yeah, they have a little uh a little mini fistful, a baby's fistful. I think it's the the unit of measurement on the

bottle for like six bucks, that's super cheaper. And I think one of the since spices are still kind of pricey, as many of them, including cinnamon, are still uh not mechanized, are still very labor intensive the harvest. Well, the reason cinnamon came down in price because even even still even I think there was one of the Roman emperors decreed he set maximum prices for the whole Roman Empire, and at the time that basically meant for the whole world, right, um.

And he set the price at about half or a third of what playing he said was the peak basic right for well, yes, um and uh. Even still it was extraordinarily high, like you had to be one of the well the aristocracy basically to afford sentiment. But then it came down in the late I believe the late eighteenth century, by the time the English got into the game. Um. And we'll talk a little more about this right after this. And this is not a message price, so everybody chill out.

But um, it came down in price because original there's just the true clon cinnamon. And then people said, well, there's this other cinnamon in Indonesia and Vietnam. Vietnam hasn't been established as a country yet, but there's still people living here and have been for thousands of years, and they got their own kind of sentiment. Uh. And then

there's another kind of sentiment in China. And all these are types of cashia, but it's so close to cinnamon and even more pungent that everybody in Europe saying, well, accept this as a substitute. So all prices came down because the supply became more widespread. Gotcha. So that brings us to a very good point. There are two types of cinnamon. The clon what you mentioned in the casha, which you mentioned. The salon is Southeast Asian native, but it is not the kind that you're going to find

in the grocery store. Correct. Uh. The ceylon, and I'm really high in grocery store you'd find it, but mostly you I haven't found it because I don't shop at those places. Well you, I mean, you could probably find it at whole Foods. But if you're gonna spend the money for ceylon cinnamon, you're probably gonna want to buy it in stick for him because there's a lot of unscrupulous spice dealers out there, and like they could powder anything and just tell you it is, but you wouldn't

know the difference. This the street corner spice dealers, their knockoff nutmegs, the ones who like opened the side of their trench, like what do you want? What do you want? I got baby spitsch to saffron right here, I've got salon cinnamon. I can take care of you. Um, the cashia is cheaper and it's stronger an odor and flavor. And uh, those aren't the only types of cina. Apparently there are more than a hundred wild types of cinnamon

trees all over the world. Yeah, and there's not all over the world, but in many parts of the world. So there's and there's true cinnamon, which is in Sri Lanka, and there's Indonesian casha. Then there's also Vietnamese casha, in Chinese casha, um, and all of those are commercially available. If you're here in the United States or in Canada, you're probably eating um cash right. And when you say true cinnamon, that's just not you being snooty. It's called

true cinnamon. No, no, no, thank you for pointing that. And then if you're in Mexico and Europe you're probably eating clon. Those are the most popular varieties. Oh yeah, nice. So I mentioned earlier on one of what I think is the fact of the podcast is that it's tree bark and how you cultivate it. It's pretty interesting and

we will detail that right after this message break. So if you want to get edible cinnamon, it's pretty neat you basically cut the tree back to a stump, cover it with dirt, and wait a year, and that makes it grow like a bush and these shoots are gonna pop out and it's gonna if if you've ever seen these things online, it looks like it starts to curl already, like off the branch. I mean, it looks like cinnamon

just waiting to happen, because it is. And they strip off that bark and set it out to dry in the sun, and then that's what it curls up like, um, what's the white tree with the real paper like birch. Yeah, it sort of looks like that, not like pine bark. Is it a birch? I know exactly what you're talking about.

I think it is a birch. Birch tree, Yeah, very pretty. Uh. And then once you have it dried out, you're gonna cut it up into your sticks and from there you're gonna package it according to what kind it is and like how good it is, basically how strong it is and um, so that's casha for um ceylon true cinnamon. It's actually the inner bark. So you peel the outer bark off and just like throw it away or light a fire with it or something like that. Then you

go after the inner bark. And for um millennia there was actually one cast in Sri Lanka whose job it was was to harvest cinnamon. No one else could do it either you were too low on the total polar too high on the totem pole. And when the Portuguese came along, because the spice trade had been cut off by the Turks, and about the Portuguese came along, found the source of cinnamon, which is a huge thing chuck before everybody just basically thought they fished it out of

the nile. People thought there were cinnamon birds that made cinnamon sticks, but it was because the traders along the silk route of Silk Road where um, they'd make up these stories and people would believe it. So finally the Portuguese find out to keep them from finding out, yes, yes, and to justify the ridiculously high prices of cinnamon, like that, well we have to go harvest these sticks from a

cinnamon bird's nest and we can get killed, right. So um, the Portuguese come along and they're like, well, we can point to at least one inefficiency. How about we enslave all of you and put you all the work rather than just this one cast of your society to harvest cinnamon and that up cinnamon product. And but what's funny is it took the Dutch to come along in and out the Portuguese and then they themselves can continue to

enslave the Sri lankans um. They they thought maybe we could cultivate these trees elsewhere, like nobody had thought told to take these trees and plant them elsewhere and then expand the supply like that. They just figured, all, we'll just let mother nature do it. They're like Suparu drivers. They're just leaving it up to mother nature rather than cultivating the stuff. It took hundreds of hundreds of years. Now.

I remember there was that stupid commercial where the guy just let his super get dirty when he was like mudding and going camping and hiking and all that stuff. And then he's like, and I don't wash my car. I just leave it up to the universe. And then it starts raining and like gets all the dirt and dust off of his car. That's that's great. Yes, you know, Elvis used to shoot the TV when Robert Goolay came on, when he was really mad. He'd shoot like a toaster,

oven or the dishwasher or whatever. But if he was watching TV and Robert Gooley came on, he would shoot his TV. Did you see that thing I posted on her Facebook page of the day about his drug intake at the end. He was prescribed almost nine thousand pills or injectables in the last three months before he died. That's a lot like that would just take up most of your time in jesting all of those. Yeah. I think I calculated it was something like a thirty thirty

five pills a day or something or injectables. It's a lot. But my grandmother still says, God rest her soul. You know, Elvis's doctors killed him. Yeah, And I didn't have the heart to tell her that Elvis was a big fat junkie. You know. She was from Memphis, and they like still were like, oh no, his doctors they just had him going every which way. Oh yeah, yeah, No, I was really love taking those pills. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, it's sort of like the Michael Jackson thing. Yeah, he

liked his milk. Alright, So back to cinnamon. Oh yeah. They have a grading system called the Freelankan grading system, and that divides it into these quills into sizes, the Alba, which is point two inches or less in diameter, the Continental, which is point six Mexican almost point eight inches, and then Zahambug, which is one point three inches around. That's that's some serious quill. It's like a cigar. Yeah, and some of these things they use like circular sauce to

cut these in production sometimes. Really Yeah, that's pretty impressive. That's super impressive. Um, the the clon is sold and quill form and it's uh gonna have that crumbling texture. It's really easy to grind up in the Cashia is the ground cinnamon that you're going to find in your grocery store, but it's too hard to grind your Yeah, it's the entirely true. I ground them up the other day, Jean Recipe. I tried probably not powdery though, was it

still pretty chunky? It was? Yeah, I mean got it, broke it down pretty well. After reading this, I was like, well, I explains why I didn't get at all. But I'm glad I didn't mess up my coffee grinder. Oh yeah, you know, you really can't believe me. What what'd you make? Uh, all of them preserved lemon ten It was pretty good.

It was hotter than I expected. Um, and I think they should have mentioned that in the rusty, like this is very hot because the preserved lemons I used were hot in and of themselves, and so the whole thing was really hot. So you mean and I are eating and our noses are running. Is so good? But I can't feel my face anymore? Yeah, but it was. It was good. That was used to shoot his cook when she made things too hot. Right, that's not true. He'd

also inject preserved lemons. He probably did. I know he injected peanut butter and banana fluff. Yeah. Um, so well that brings just cooking with slemons what you were just talking about. Um, it's a lot a lot of time. It's used in baking here in the States or the quote West unquote right, like as a baking like sugary desserts and stuff like that, or maybe in a drink like a toddy but like anything at Starbucks. Yeah, that's true. They've got that shaker cinnamon out for a reason. Use it.

But like you were saying, uh, in the East, like an Eastern dish, like that. It's used a lot to like flavor meat and and curries and stuff. Yeah, which is kind of a in the idea that the West only uses it to sweeten or for desserts or that kind of thing is um relatively new because during the Middle Ages in Europe, uh, the the elite again, we use cinnamon especially to um cover up preserved meat, and it maybe even to preserve meat. But they used it

on like meat and savory dishes back back when. Then at some point it made the transition to dessert. I get it. It's nice on an apple pie. Yeah. And uh sportast like I mentioned, and horg chatta that's good stuff with cinnamon horche out of regular right, Jerry thumbs up. Uh. If you buy centiment in the store and you want to preserve it, you store it in a glass air tight container would be the best deal. It's gonna keep

it nice and fresh and flavorful. Uh. And it can stay fresh those sticks for about a year if you store it right, which is awesome. If it's ground, it's uh last about half of that that long. Yeah, it's I've had centiment in my cupboard for a long time. Ancient sticks. It's like that in the bay leaves. You know. The thing is is the difference I think between like fresh bay leaves and and dry bay leaves or is significant. I know. But why did they sell you thirty bay

leaves when you need to for any given dish? I know, I don't know. I always want to like post on social media like I'm cooking with bay leaves, so please come by and get some bay leaves because they're just gonna end up in the trash right now. I know, anytime I've ever gone to your house, you've always given me bai leaves. Stay all Bailey kind of what you're now for. Um. I put a little cinnamon in the in our chili recipe too. Yeah. I think the Cincinnati

chili is famous for that. Oh yeahs and curries. It's really good in curries too, uh and um, just basically any Indian dish or Bangladeshi dish. Yeah, A little goes a long way though, by the way, like just a pinch or so in some of these dishes, you can really taste the flavor. If you overdo it, you're you're gonna be tasting nothing but cinnamon, right if you use casha. That's another big distinction. I think you already said it, but it's worth touching upon again. Salon cinnamon is known

to be much subtler and less pungent than cautious cinnamon. Um, and it's it's kind of more it has. It offers a more subtle flavor. So um, you actually might want to use casha for a dish where it's gonna it could fade into the background and then you just ceylon for like a t Yeah, you know, because it'll melt

right into your your teacup there on it. Plus, it may or may not aid in digestion, which is a pretty great segue to this next part, the health benefits the cinnamon, which we'll talk about all right after this. All right, Josh, health benefits. Um. Now, a lot of this in the article says some believe may or may not. But didn't you find some pretty good hard evidence of some of the stuff. There's been a lot of peer reviewed studies done on cinnamon that have turned up some

pretty awesome things about it. Yeah, so let's talk about them. Antioxidants for one, fighting free radicals that damage cells. Yeah, we should do an episode on that. There's a whole so the whole idea that why we age and why we die eventually is because we we get bombarded with like ions and free radicals like adams that are unstable and are bouncing around our bodies and just wearing down cells. That's why we age and that's why we die. Apparently

that's been coming under attack lately. So yeah, so I think we should we should do an episode on on free radicals and the free I think it's called the free radical theory of aging. Yeah, that's great because, um, people, everyone says antioxidants, but nobody knows what that means. Well, supposedly those stabilized unstable atoms, and so they therefore go after the free radicals and clump onto them or stabilize them,

and then your cell is saved, you know. But whether or not that's actually does anything or is real, the jury is still out apparently to look for that. And right, yeah, um, it is definitely known as an anti microbial and antifungal. Yeah, antiseptic as well, antibiotic, a stringent. It's got lots of neat properties. But you don't want to like take pure cinnamon essential oil and put it on your skin because you want to elude it. Some Yeah, it also can

like blister. I mean it's pretty severe Emily has in her shop. And just the smell of it, it doesn't It's one of those things that it's like it didn't even smell like cinnamon and concentrated. Yeah. Um, it doesn't take much essential oil actually, uh to have an antiseptic effect. Apparently the one study found a ten percent concentration of cinnamon oil and the active ingredient. Know if we said

is cinamalde hyde. Yeah we did not. Um, so it's not the only the only ingredient in there, but cinamalde hydes the big boss active ingredient and cinnamon's antiseptic properties and I think what gives it its taste. Um. But the cinamalde hyde or the ten percent cinnamon oil uh concentration has been shown to kill staff E Coli mersa strep. Those are some big time players and making you sick mersa. It's apparently been found a ten percent dilution can kill

um other kinds of abiotic resistant bacteria. It's like the real deal. And apparently did you see that thing on thieves oil that I sent you from the New York Times? Uh? I did not read that one. It was pretty cool. Um. There's this thing called thieves oil from the Middle Ages. Apparently people used to steal jewelry off of dead bodies. Keeps themselves from getting sick from having to stick their hands literally neck deep into a corpse to get a

necklace off. Um, they would use this stuff called thieves oil was like basically a hand sanitizer that consisted of a cinnamon, lemon oil, and eucalyptus and it really worked and they would not get sick after they looted bodies. Yes, because they'd have a glove of that stuff on. We should have saved that for our Christmas episode does the season? Um. It Also, cinnamon has something called calmera cameron c O U M A r I N which is toxic. Though.

So while cinnamon has a lot of great helpful properties, you can overdo it and it can cause liver damage, kidney damage. In dust form, you can cause asthma. Um. There was a study done by workers, not by workers on cinnamon workers, and I think they studied forty workers with an average of four year service, and eighty seven point five percent had some sort of negative symptom like liver kidney. No. Nine of them uh, had asthma, irritation to skin, thirty seven percent loss of hair, um, smarting

of the eyes, and loss of weight. That was the most common finding. So that's the jury is still out on that and whether or not cinnamon can help you actually lose weight. It help them, um, but I don't think in a good way, right Yeah. Well, I mean some people like I believe you should take tape worms, um, but they're not. Cinnamon actually helps is kind of Um, I don't know. The science is still out on it,

but there's a little more science too. Cinnamon being helpful for type two diabetes because apparently taking I think a gram or something of or six grams of cinnamon, which is a decent amount with a meal, um, prevents your food from being digested quickly, so you'll still feel full, but your food doesn't enter it doesn't hit your bloodstream in a big spike, which means that your blood sugar levels don't spike either. It's just kind of like it all.

It turns your food into like slow release nutrition. Interesting. Yeah, so that's it could actually be very helpful for people with type two diabetes because it basically arrests the spike in the glycemic index that comes from eating foods. Are they recommending that at this point or is it like they look into it. They're looking into it still. I mean, depending on the website you go to, it recommends it or else. I don't. It doesn't seem like anybody's not

recommending it. I think if anything, they're they're including a warning, like, if you're gonna do this, use true cinnamon, because cash is the stuff that has the more kumaran in it, Like salon cinnamon has point zero one seven grams per kilogram of kumar in. But if you get the Saigon cinnamon, which is fairly um widespread, which is a type of cash, it's got seven grams per kilogram of kumaran and that's

the stuff that can hurt your liver and kidneys. So I guess if you're going to add that to your diet as a diabetic, you should probably definitely use the cylon cinnamon. Yeah, and one thing he definitely don't want to do is the cinnamon challenge, like these morons on YouTube, including the governor of Illinois who took the challenge, Robovich broad name, Yeah, I remember it was a few years back. He was um he got him for corruption. Yeah, I'm

not sure if that was him or not. He was trying to sell Barack Obama's old seat when he became president. Oh yeah, I remember that guy, I don't know or not. Wow, it's almost like you're vomiting the name out, Peter Badanovitch. No, that's easier to say. Don't do the cinnamon challenge. That is a stupid thing on YouTube where I think you're tasked with. Is it a tablespoon of swallowing a tablespoon of cinnamon in a minute, which is uh, not good

for you at all and harder than it sounds. Uh. In two thousand and twelve, just the first six months, there were a hundred and seventy eight emergency calls UH to poison control centers around because of the cinnamon challenge. And that is because it contains cellulose and it can

lodge in your lungs. Because you're not your body is not gonna break down that cellulose and UH Dr lip Schultz, who was consulted in this article there read said it's code with a caustic cinnamon oil, and it's gonna lead to chronic inflammation and eventual scarring of your lungs pulmonary fibrosis, and he basically says it's equivalent to emphysema, and it can trigger an asthma attack and if you have bad asthma can kill you even plus also, um, consuming cinnamon

and excess can cause nausea, vomiting, redness of the face, lip swelling. Yeah, you know want that and it's tree bark. Yeah, it tastes lovely in a pinch, but um, don't don't do that. That's that's stupid. Don't do what the governor of Illinois does. Yeah, if it was that same guy, then we can recommend that how many levels because he did a lot of dumb stuff. Cinnamon. That's it. I got nothing else. Uh. If you want to know more about cinnamon, type that word into the search bar at

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She's like, I don't need to shout out or thanks or anything. I'm just doing this as part of art for generosity. Yeah, I think she does. It's like one thing a week. Or wasn't there like some rules to it. There were rules, but I didn't memorize there's something like that. And she yeah, she specifically said not to say thank you, but we're saying thank you, thank you. Did she specifically say not to her say she didn't need one, because if she said not to, we really shouldn't thank her. No,

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us feel good that he listens to our show. Yeah, because he's a big shots podcasting So thank you very much for that, Brian. I've got another one too. Garrett Nice just sent us some um homie brownies. Yes, Garrett is uh. I think he's like eleven or twelve years old. Garret is very nice and I think he begged him himself. He also had some other things to offer. I can't remember, but it was like brownies or his own pancake batter

or something weird like that. That is nice. Yeah, and my final one is thanks as always two Little Bit Sweets handmade candy in Brooklyn, New York. They've been friends and supporters for years and they are growing and they're awesome. You can visit them at Chelsea Market. Yeah, I got to Chelsea Market, or just go to look up a Little Bit Sweets on the internet and buy some of their delicious, delicious candy and candy bars. Yeah. Man, their honeycomb candy is as addictive as it kids. Yeah, and

I've said it a million times. The King Bar to me is the best candy bar on the planet Earth. So good all right? Uh So that's it for administrative details. We're cleared out. No one send us anything unless they're Christmas cookies. I guess for the rest of the year, Mona. So we can start over again fresh in two thousand and fifteen. Okay, anyway, if you want to get in touch with this, you can tweet to us at s Y s K podcast. You can join us on Facebook

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