SC - artificial

[CBlackwill at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/3/00 5:02:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Marian.Deborah.Rosenberg at washcoll.edu writes:

> I was eating a Nestle chocolate product the other day which was labelled in
>  spanish and english.  Mexican chocolate type stuff, the sugar and cocoa 
> powder
>  and cinammon chunks.  Wonderful.  One of the ingredients listed was "
> artificial
>  cinammon" and considering that some places have different laws I was 
> wondering
>  whether this referred to cassia or whether they have an artificial cinammon
>  which looks like cinammon (brown powder) and tastes like cinammon.

I am not aware of an artificial cinnamon, unless they are referring to 
"cinnamon flavor" or "cinnamon oil".  With cinnamon in such abundance 
worldwide, I don't see why they would need to use an artificial version.  
It's not overly expensive.

Balthazar of Blackmoor