Re: Cinnamon/blood sugar study

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If anyone has been following the recent news that cinnamon has been
> found to lower blood sugar levels and knows anything about the study
> then i have a question. they keep talking about cinnamon, but mention
> all the foods that people put 'cinnamon' into. 90% of the substance
> known as 'cinnamon' is, in fact, cassus bark, not the bark of the
> 'cinnamon' tree and while somewhat related, it is not the same thing. 

   I think the active ingredient found to mimiic insulin in those 
experiments was the compound that gives it "the cinnamon taste". This 
is a water-soluble polyphenol compound called MHCP.  This is probably 
the compound found in  "cassus bark" if it has the cinnamon taste.

Elmer