Cinnamon

True cinnamon, or "Ceylon cinnamon", only comes from Sri Lanka and is known not just for its unique flavour profile but its well-documented health and nutritional properties.

 

  • Cinnamon Grades

    The cinnamon is sold generally as quills (Full tubes). In addition to this, cinnamon is also exported as quislings, featherings and chips. The quills shall be of light brown colour and shall be well formed and well dried. 

    Quills are graded on the basis of the diameter of the quill and the level of foxing.

    Grade Diameter (max. mm) Min. no. of 42"long quills per kg % rough quills per kg
    Alba 6 45 None
    Continental (C )
    C00000 Sp 6 35 10
    C00000 10 31 10
    C0000 13 24 10
    C000 16 22 15
    C00 17 20 20
    C0 19 18 25
    Mexican (M)
    M00000Sp 16 22 50
    M00000 16 22 60
    M0000 19 18 60
    Hamburg (H)
    H1 23 11 25
    H2 25 9 40
    H3 38 7 60

  • Packaging

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  • Commercial Specifications

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General Information

The Ceylon cinnamon or true cinnamon, is the dried bark of Cinnamomum zealanicum, belongs to the family Lauraceae. It is indigenous to Sri Lanka. Cinnamomum zealanicum is an evergreen perenial plant with spirally arranged, broad laminated dark green leaves having palmate venation.

In Sri Lanka, cinnamon seems to have originated in the central hills where several species of cinnamon occur sporadically in places such as Kandy, Matale, Belihull Oya, Haputale and the Sinharaja forest range. Although cinnamon cultivation is presently concentrated along the coastal belt stretching along from Kaluthara to Mathara, it has also made inroads to the inland of Kalutara, Ambalangoda, Matara and Ratnapura. The extent under cinnamon in Sri Lanka is 25,500ha. Although, the bulk of cinnamon plantations are about 70 - 80 years old, the size of holdings has been diminishing and only about 5-10% of the plantations are of sizeable extent ranging from 8 - 10ha.

Cinnamon Products

Cinnamon Quills (Full tubes)
Scraped peel of the inner bark of mature cinnamon stems first dried in the sun (not direct sun) to curl and join together by overlaps, the hollow of which has been filled with small pieces of peeled cinnamon to form length of 1050 ± 50 mm and thereafter dried in the sun, if necessary after air curing.

Cinnamon Quillings (broken tubes)
Broken pieces below 200 mm in length (other than quills cut in specified short length) and splits of varying sizes of all grades of cinnamon quills which may include quantities of chips and featherings as specified.

Cinnamon Featherings
Pieces of inner bark, obtained by peeling and/ or scraping the bark of small twigs and stalks of cinnamon shoots, which may include a quantity of chips as specified

Cinnamon Chip
Dried bark of unpeelable cinnamon stems, branches and trimmings inclusive of the outer bark, which has been obtained by chipping or scraping.

Ground Cinnamon
Powder obtained by grinding cinnamon of the typed considered in this International Standard, excluding all additives.