Urgent for Holiday Bakers! FDA is Recalling Hazardous Cinnamon!

This certainly isn't very good. Just as the holiday baking season is upon us, the FDA is recalling ground cinnamon.

What is happening here?

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The FDA, Food and Drug Administration says they have found a higher amount of lead in certain cinnamon powder making them totally unsafe. Being exposed to higher levels of lead is certainly not very good for our health.

Finding so many unsafe cinnamon powders is alarming and we all should be checking our pantries and either return them to the store for a refund, or simply get rid of them.

WHAT ARE THE UNSAFE BRANDS?

USA Today reported a Consumers Report list of the unsafe cinnamon powders. They are:

• Paras cinnamon powder (3.52 ppm)
• EGN cinnamon powder (2.91 ppm)
• Mimi's Products ground cinnamon (2.03 ppm)
• Bowl & Basket ground cinnamon (1.82 ppm)
• Rani Brand ground cinnamon (1.39 ppm)
• Zara Foods cinnamon powder (1.27 ppm)
• Three Rivers cinnamon stick powder (1.26 ppm)
• Yu Yee Brand five spice powder (1.25 ppm)
• BaiLiFeng five spice powder (1.15 ppm)
• Spicy King five spices powder (1.05 ppm)
• Badia cinnamon powder (1.03 ppm)
• Deep cinnamon powder (1.02 ppm)

ARE THERE ANY SAFE BRANDS?

That said, you don't have to stop using cinnamon in your baking because there are other cinnamon powder brands that are deemed safe according to Consumer Reports.

"McCormick cinnamon (0.23 ppm), Kirkland Signature organic Saigon cinnamon (0.80 ppm), Great Value ground cinnamon (0.79 ppm), Trader Joe's organic ground cinnamon (0.69 ppm), Good & Gather ground cinnamon (0.56 ppm), Simply Organic cinnamon (0.28 ppm), 365 Whole Foods Market ground cinnamon (0.12 ppm), 365 Whole Foods Market organic ground cinnamon (0.02 ppm) and Sadaf cinnamon powder (0.04 ppm)."

There you go holiday bakers. Happy safe baking!