is widely used in desserts, cakes, sweets, etc. and whole is used to decorate and season some dishes. In Mexico it is used in the famous cinnamon tea, which is to put a few sticks of cinnamon to boil in water until the tea, adding sugar to taste.
Use Cinnamon Tea, is widespread in Mexico and Mexican hinterland, including the southern United States and Central America, to the extent that competes in use with hot beverages like coffee and chocolate. It should be emphasized that the tea is prepared with a variety of Ceylon.
is also an ingredient in many curries and other dishes from the east where they use varieties of Ceylon and China, as well as dust-tree leaves. In a sensory tasting
could say that cinnamon has an astringent taste.
has been used previously in rural Spain to induce sleepiness in children, both in tea and smoking, was a relaxing rural mothers used the children sleeping at the time of going to the countryside to work. It is also common in women when they delayed menstruation. Also one of the medical benefits provided by Canela is that when there are abrasions on the language level by eating or drinking anything hot cinnamon bar sucks or licks to sedate the pain and heal the taste buds. I must add, moreover, that the cinnamon has beneficial effects against diabetes and hypercholesterolemia (according to researchers from the Department of Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland): first, the intake of cinnamon helps to reduce the numbers blood sugar in diabetics, and second, just half a teaspoon can also help lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels blood. One way to icorporar this spice, pordría be added to foods such as coffee, tea, juice, cereal or toast.