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Assessment of Coumarin Levels in Ground Cinnamon Available in the Czech Retail Market

Author(s) -

Jana Blahová,

Zdeňka Svobodová

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

the scientific world journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 2356-6140

pISSN - 1537-744X

DOI - 10.1100/2012/263851

Subject(s) - coumarin , cassia , sri lanka , cinnamomum , czech , traditional medicine , food science , chemistry , medicine , geography , traditional chinese medicine , organic chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , alternative medicine , pathology , environmental planning , tanzania

The objective of this study was to determine the coumarin content of ground cinnamon purchased from retail markets in the Czech Republic. No sample was labelled with information on the botanical source, but, in some cases, the countries of origin were specified. For comparison, a single cinnamon sample imported directly from a plantation in Sri Lanka that came from Cinnamomum verum was analyzed. Results from 60 ground cinnamon samples comprising twelve brands confirmed a high content of coumarin, with mean levels ranging from 2 650 to 7 017 mg · kg −1 . The high coumarin content confirmed that these cinnamon samples obtained from cassia cinnamon were in contrast to the sample from Sri Lanka, which was coumarin-free.

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