Cassia By Spicemart

Holding one of the top positions, connected in Exporting, Distributing, Trading and Supplying of Cassia in Guwahati, Assam, India. Cassia, also called Chinese cinnamon, consists of the aromatic bark of the Cinnamomum cassia plant of the family Lauraceae. Similar to true cinnamon, cassia bark has a more pungent, less delicate flavour and is thicker than cinnamon bark. It contains from 1 to 2 percent oil of cassia, a volatile oil, the principal component of which is cinnamic aldehyde. Cassia bark is used as a flavouring in cooking and particularly in liqueurs and chocolate. Often confused with cinnamon, cassia has a very sweet, pungent aroma and almost bitter taste when used to excess. Southern Europeans prefer it to cinnamon, but, in North America, ground cinnamon is sold without distinction as to the species from which the bark is obtained.