CINNAMON OR TRUE CINNAMON - Intercom Exports
CINNAMON OR TRUE CINNAMON - Intercom Exports
CINNAMON OR TRUE CINNAMON - Intercom Exports
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The major use of cinnamonum and cassia barks, both in whole and ground forms,<br />
on a world- wide basis is for domestic culinary purposes, which in the industrialised<br />
western countries the major outlet is in the flavouring of processed foods. The spices are<br />
traded internationally in the whole form and grinding is carried out in the consuming<br />
centers. The ground spices find application in the flavouring of bakery products, sauces<br />
and pickles, puddlings, curry powder, some beverages and confectionary. The preference<br />
for cinnamon or one of the 3 types of cassia in particular applications varies from country<br />
to country. The 4 sps., are often blended during grinding to prepare a mixed cinnamon/<br />
cassia ground spice.<br />
The oleoresins are prepared mainly by the flavour industries of Western Europe<br />
abd North America; and they have similar applications to the ground spices in the<br />
flavouring of processed foods.<br />
<strong>CINNAMON</strong> BARK OIL IS MAINLY PRODUCED BY DISTILLATION OF<br />
IMP<strong>OR</strong>TED MATERIAL IN western Europe and North America. A little cinnamon bark<br />
oil is distilled in Srilanka but this is considered to be a lower quality product. Cinnamon<br />
bark oil is used in both flavouring and perfumery; in the former application, it is<br />
incorporated into baked goods, sauces and pickles, confectionaries, beverages of the coca<br />
cola types, and in the some dental and pharmaceutical preparations.<br />
In comparision to cinnamon bark oil, the production of cassia bark oil is on a<br />
relatievely small scale with distillation being undertaken in the importing countries.<br />
These oils find a limited use in soaps, perfumes, some spice essence and beverages.<br />
Cinnamonum leaf oil [from C. verum] is distilled in Sri Lanka , the Seychelles<br />
and the Malagasy Republic. The oil is used per se in flavouring and perfumery and, also ,<br />
as a source of its major constituent, eugenol.<br />
Cassia oil of commerce is produced in China. It contains cinnamaldehyde as its<br />
major constituent and is used for similar purposes to cinnamon bark oil in perfumery and<br />
flavouring [after rectification] but its applications are rather more limited.<br />
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