Cinnamon Boosts Brain Activity

The commonly used spice cinnamon could see new applications in functional foods as findings from the US suggest that chewing cinnamon-flavoured gum could help the memory, reports Lindsey Partos. Participants at the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences later this month will learn that cinnamon – as a flavour or fragrance – could boost the brain as scientists at Wheeling Jesuit University in the US, led by Dr P. Zoladz, report on their findings.