Cinnamon

Cinnamomum verumAlso called canel and canella

Cinnamon is a spice made from bark and sold whole. Cooks use it for pickling and seasoning, and pair it with chicken, lamb, sugar, and apple.

Category: Herbs & spices
Part used: Bark
Family: Lauraceae
Cooked most in: Asia, Africa, Europe
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 33 in the catalogue
Energy: 247 kcal per 100 g

Photo: formulatehealth · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use cinnamon

Typical ways to cook or use it

Pickle
Season

Preparing it

Ceylon cinnamon sticks can be ground in a coffee or spice grinder. Take care grinding Indonesian cinnamon quills; they can damage a grinder.

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing cinnamon

Sold as: Whole

Nutrition

What 100 g of cinnamon holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 5%Fat 1%Carbohydrate 94%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of cinnamon
Energy	247 kcal · 1,035 kJ
Protein	4 g
Fat	1.2 g
of which saturated	0.35 g
Carbohydrate	81 g
of which sugars	2.2 g
Fibre	53 g
Sodium	10 mg
Cholesterol	0 mg

Nutrition per 100 g of cinnamon: minerals and vitamins
Potassium	431 mg
Calcium	1,002 mg
Iron	8.3 mg
Magnesium	60 mg
Zinc	1.8 mg
Vitamin C	3.8 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)	15 µg
Folate	6 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 171320), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where cinnamon is cooked

33 dishes in the catalogue use cinnamon. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list cinnamon among their ingredients.

Origins

1767 · India
A cinnamon estate was established in Kerala, India, in 1767.

On the table

Dishes made with cinnamon

28 of the 33 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Coto makassar
Indonesia
Tarta de Santiago
Spain
Pepernoot
Baklava
Sholezard
Iran
Banana Breakfast Cookies
Africa
Gazelle ankles🇲🇦🇲🇦
Mrouzia
Morocco
Schläsches Himmelreich
Rörost
Sweden
Matang satay
Indonesia
Hojas de parra
Spain
Tfaya
Morocco
Klatak Satay
Indonesia
Kuah beulangong
Indonesia
Kanji rumbi
Indonesia
Soto Betawi
Indonesia
Bir pletok
Indonesia
Sop saudara
Indonesia
Bingka Barandam
Indonesia
Pacri Nanas
Indonesia
Es buah
Indonesia
Roti gambang
Indonesia
Bubur kacang hijau
Indonesia
Gulai Balak
Æbleflæsk
Intxaursaltsa
Seffa

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include cinnamon.

Around the world

What cinnamon is called

Names in 130 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
canela · Te de canela · Canela · Té de canela
French
cannelle
Italian
cannella · Cinnamomum verum · cinnamomo · Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Portuguese
canela · Cinnamomum zeylanicum
German
Zimt · Kaneel
Dutch
kaneel · Cinnamomum aromaticum · Cinnamomum zeylanicum · Cinnamomum verum
Greek
κανέλα · Κινάμωμον · Κιννάμωμον
Turkish
Tarçın
Russian
корица
Polish
cynamon · Cinnamomum zeylanicum · Cinnamomum verum
Arabic
قرفة · الدارصيني على الحقيقة · القرفه · القرفة السيلانية
Persian
دارچین

Show all 130 languages

Afrikaans
Kaneel
Albanian
kanellë
Amharic
ቀረፋ
Aragonese
canela
Aramaic
ܩܠܦܬܐ ܕܒܣܡܐ
Armenian
դարչին
Asturian
canela
Azerbaijani
Darçın
Bangla
দারুচিনি
Basque
kanela
Bavarian
Zimt
Belarusian
Карыца
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
карыца
Bosnian
Cimet
Brazilian Portuguese
Canela
Breton
kanell
Bulgarian
канела · Cinnamomum
Burmese
သစ်ကြံပိုးပင်
Cantonese
肉桂
Catalan
canyella
Cebuano
Kanela · Cinnamomum burmannii · Cinnamon · Canela
Central Kurdish
دارچین
Chinese
肉桂 · 香桂 · 官桂 · 川桂
Corsican
cannella
Croatian
Cimet
Czech
skořice
dag
Sinnamɔn
Danish
kanel · Cinnamomum verum · Cinnamomum zeylandicum
Divehi
ފޮނި ތޮށި
Egyptian Arabic
قرفه
Esperanto
cinamo
Estonian
kaneel
Filipino
kaningag
Finnish
kaneli
Galician
canela
gcr
Kannèl (lapo pyébwa)
Georgian
დარიჩინი
Goan Konkani
तिखी
Gujarati
તજ
Hausa
kirfa
Hebrew
קינמון · Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Hindi
दालचीनी
Hungarian
fahéj
Icelandic
Kanill
Ido
Cinamo
Igbo
Cinnamon
Indonesian
kulit kayu manis · Kayu manis · Kulit manis · Cinnamon
Interlingua
Cannella
Irish
cainéal
Japanese
シナモン · ケイヒ · 日桂 · ケイシ
Javanese
Kayu manis
Kannada
ದಾಲ್ಚಿನ್ನಿ
Kashmiri
دال چیٖن · دالچیٖن
Kashubian
Cynamón
Kazakh
Даршын
Korean
계피 · 시나몬
Kurdish
darçîn
Kyrgyz
Дарчин
Latin
Cinnamum · Cinnamomi cortex
Latvian
kanēlis
Limburgish
keniel
Lithuanian
Cinamonas
Lombard
canela
Low German
Kaneel
Lower Sorbian
cymt
Luxembourgish
Kanéil · Cinnamomum zeylanicum · ZImt
Macedonian
цимет
Maithili
दालचिनी
Malagasy
Kanelina
Malay
kayu manis
Malayalam
കറുവപട്ട · ഇലവംഗം · ഇലവർങ്ഗം · കറുവാപ്പട്ട
Maltese
kannella
Marathi
दालचिनी
Mazanderani
دارچین
Min Nan Chinese
Ceylon jio̍k-kùi · Iûⁿ-jio̍k-kùi
Minangkabau
kulik manih · kulik kayu manih · kayu manih
Mongolian
Синнамон
Nepali
दालचिनी
Northern Frisian
Kaneel
Norwegian Bokmål
kanel · Cinnamomum zeylanicum · Cinnamomum · Ceylon-kanel
Norwegian Nynorsk
kanel · Kanelstonga · Kanelstongi · Kanelstenger
nrm
Cannelle
Occitan
canèla
Odia
ଡାଳଚିନି
Old English
Ofersǣwisc rind
Oromo
Qarafaa
Piedmontese
canela
Punjabi
ਦਾਲ ਚੀਨੀ · ਦਾਲਚੀਨੀ
Quechua
Kanila sach'a · Kanila · Canela · Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Romanian
scorțișoară · Scorţişoară · Cinnamomum verum
Samogitian
Cėnemuons
Sanskrit
वराङ्गम्
Scots
cinnamon
Scottish Gaelic
Caineal
Serbian
цимет
Serbian (Latin)
Cimet
Sicilian
cannedda
Sindhi
دالچيني
Sinhala
කුරුඳු
Slovak
škorica
Slovenian
cimet
Sundanese
Ki amis
Swahili
Mdalasini
Swedish
kanel
Swiss German
Zimt
Swiss High German
Zimt
Tamil
கறுவா
Telugu
దాల్చిన చెక్క · దాల్చినచెక్క
Thai
อบเชย · ซินนามอน · ชินเนมอน · Cinnamon
Traditional Chinese
肉桂
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
肉桂
Tunisian Arabic (Arabic)
قرفة
Ukrainian
Кориця · Цинамон · Коричне дерево · Cinnamomum verum
Upper Sorbian
Skoričnik
Urdu
دارچینی · دار چینی
Vietnamese
quế · Cinnamomum zeylanicum · Cinnamomum verum
Volapük
kirfat
Welsh
sinamon · Sinamon · canel · Canel
West Flemish
Kanêel · Kanêle · Kaneel
Western Frisian
kaniel
Western Panjabi
دال چینی · دالچینی
Wu Chinese
桂皮
Yiddish
צימערינג · צימרינג

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q28165

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