[Sca-cooks] Cinnamon question

[Daniel Myers]

On Mar 18, 2005, at 1:17 PM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> On another historical food list i'm on, someone claimed that 
> commercial ground cinnamon from major vendors contains cornstarch. 
> It's certainly a possibility, but I'm skeptical. I welcome being 
> enlightened.
>
> I'm not asking this person directly where he got this info because 
> many of his posts have been a bit, well, dubious.

While the US does allow cassia to be labeled as cinnamon, I'm pretty 
sure that the FDA wouldn't allow corn starch to be added without it 
being on the ingredients list.

If this were true, wouldn't it keep commercial cinnamon from being 
marked as kosher?

- Doc


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