Oh damn, I didn’t think about the cinnamon for some reason. It DOES make sense, we’ve all probably been reading stuff about spice contamination/adulteration, bu

Oh damn, I didn’t think about the cinnamon for some reason. It DOES make sense, we’ve all probably been reading stuff about spice contamination/adulteration, but I didn’t connect the dots. The spice adulteration I (and probably other HN readers) am familiar with is turmeric, but there’s an obvious motive - make the spice more yellow. Was the cinnamon adulterated deliberately? If so, why? Color, like turmeric? Some trick to make harvesting easier (I know that cinnamon is one of those tricky spices, since you need to shave off curls of bark)? To make worse grade cinnamon seem like higher grade?