We use the "Ceylon" strain of cinnamon because we understand it to be better for kidney health, over time, than the other strains of cinnamon available, including other strains from Frontier. The Frontier brand actually provides two "Ceylon" cinnamon powder products at the 16 oz size and the only difference in the iHerb product listing is the word "Powder" - which is present in this one and missing from the iHerb listing title for the other one. But if you look at the product packaging, the word "Powder" is on *both* packages. The actual difference is that this one is "Fair Trade Certified" and the other is not - which we think is good to know. The other difference is incidentally that this one costs you $2.22 more than the other - which we find is worth paying, with the hope that "Fair Trade Certified" is letting us know that this money is actually going to help out the ultimate suppliers, the farmers - who are responsible for any of the quality and health-giving attributes actually in the food. (A small stand against the craziness of our world in which the far, far greater portion of the amount we pay goes to middle-men, rather than the ones responsible for the actual food and medicinal value of the cinnamon, and who arguably work the hardest for their dollar. And by "farmers" we mean those doing the actual labour, on the land, directly and physically looking after the trees, the water, the soil, etc., on a daily basis. God bless them. Hopefully they've got it together as a co-operative, their families are well, etc....)
_ _ _ P.S. _ We did try Frontier's other Ceylon powder product, out of curiosity and for research purposes, and regardless of any of this discussion about labels and economics, etc., we did in fact like this one better.
