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    This document provides a diet plan to avoid cinnamon and benzoates, which can cause oral symptoms for some individuals. It involves avoiding products containing these ingredients for at least 6 weeks and cooking with fresh, spice-free foods when possible. It then lists many common food items and whether they typically do or do not contain cinnamon and benzoates, noting that manufacturers may change ingredients over time.

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    This document provides a diet plan to avoid cinnamon and benzoates, which can cause oral symptoms for some individuals. It involves avoiding products containing these ingredients for at least 6 weeks and cooking with fresh, spice-free foods when possible. It then lists many common food items and whether they typically do or do not contain cinnamon and benzoates, noting that manufacturers may change ingredients over time.

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    This document provides a diet plan to avoid cinnamon and benzoates, which can cause oral symptoms for some individuals. It involves avoiding products containing these ingredients for at least 6 weeks and cooking with fresh, spice-free foods when possible. It then lists many common food items and whether they typically do or do not contain cinnamon and benzoates, noting that manufacturers may change ingredients over time.

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    The key takeaways are to avoid cinnamon and benzoates which can cause oral symptoms, and to follow a diet without these ingredients carefully for at least 6 weeks to see improvement.

    Foods to avoid according to the diet include toothpaste, mouthwashes, meat in spicy sauces, fish in spicy sauces, jams containing benzoates, cereals with spices/benzoates, tinned baked beans, bread with bleached flour, nuts, pickles, ketchup, soy sauce, cakes and biscuits containing spices.

    Foods that can usually be consumed according to the diet include plain fresh or frozen meat and fish, pure fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, breakfast cereals without spices/benzoates, plain unbleached grain bread, pasta, rice, eggs, milk, cream, cheese, plain nuts, seeds, crisps and natural fruit juices.

    DIET FREE OF CINNAMON AND BENZOATES

    • Cinnamon and benzoates can produce some oral signs and symptoms.
    • Avoiding products containing these may improve your condition.
    • This will take time.
    • You should try to follow this diet carefully for at least 6 weeks.
    • Buy and cook fresh food without spices whenever possible

    The following food ingredients (many are canned, tinned or bottled products) commonly
    cause problems:

    Cinnamon: is a natural substance, often used in very small quantities, and therefore does not
    always have to be stated on food labels. However, look for the word spices, spice extracts,
    ground cinnamon, mixed spice, cinnamon oil or cinnamic aldehyde on labels.

    Benzoates: are chemicals, used to prevent spoilage in a wide range of processed foods but
    high levels may also occur naturally in certain foods.
    Benzoate's includes any of the following permitted preservatives (E numbers 210-219):
    E210 or Benzoic acid
    E211 or Sodium benzoate
    E212 or Potassium benzoate
    E213 or Calcium benzoate
    E214 or Ethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate or Ethyl para-hydroxybenzoate
    E215 or Ethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate, sodium salt or sodium ethyl para-hydroxy-benzoate
    E216 or Propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate or Propyl para-hydroxybenzoate
    E217 or Propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate, sodium salt or sodium propyl parahydroxybenzoate
    E218 or Methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate or Methyl para-hydroxybenzoate
    E219 or Methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate, sodium salt or Sodium methyl parahydroxybenzoate.

    These are foods and other products that commonly do or do not contain
    cinnamon and benzoates. HOWEVER manufacturers may change ingredients from
    time to time, and you should therefore check the list of ingredients on the package label.

    Contain cinnamon or/and Without cinnamon or/and


    benzoates. benzoates.
    TO AVOID CAN USUALLY BE USED
    Toothpaste, mouthwashes Tartar controlled toothpaste All other toothpastes and
    and deodorant and mouthwashes, and mouthwashes
    some sensitive deodorants
    unless ingredients are known
    Meat Meat in a spicy sauce, cold Any plain fresh or frozen
    meat containing spices, meat
    any made up meat dishes/pie Meat dishes without
    and pastry fillings containing spices/benzoates
    spices or benzoates

    Fish Fish in a spicy sauce, Any plain fresh or frozen fish


    any made up fish dishes apart from cod
    containing spices.
    Cod Fish dishes without
    spices/benzoates

    Fruits and vegetables Avocado, berries, nectarines, All pure fresh and frozen
    raspberries, red beans, fruits or vegetables
    prunes, peaches, papaya, Jams, marmalade, Marmite,
    pumpkin, soy beans, honey, lemon curd, peanut
    spinach, strawberries butter,
    Jams containing benzoates Saccharin and other artificial
    sweetners
    Cereals etc Breakfast cereals with Breakfast cereals without
    spices/benzoates. spices/benzoates: see
    Tinned baked beans, ravioli, manufacturer lists,
    spaghetti or hoops Bread with unbleached grain.
    Check labels carefully on Custard powder
    packaged pasta dishes.
    Cornflour
    Flour
    Most nuts (avoid dry roasted
    type)
    Pasta
    Porridge
    Pulses (peas, beans, barley,
    lentils)
    Rice
    Sago
    Tapioca

    Fats and oils All fats and oils with Pure butter, cream and
    hydrolysed lecithin shortening
    Pure vegetable oils lard and
    dripping.
    Margarine Olive oil
    Prepared salad dressings Homemade salad dressings

    Cakes and biscuits Manufactured cakes Any pure unbleached Grain


    containing spices.
    Apple strudel, carrot cake, Any plain fresh bread, buns,
    fruit cake, garibaldi, ginger pizza dough
    biscuits or gingerbread Any home-made or
    Mince pies manufactured cake/biscuit
    Products made with with allowed ingredients
    bleached flour

    Eggs and dairy produce Any containing All types of milk, cream, sour
    spices/benzoates e.g. some cream, yoghurt and fromage
    yoghurt, custard style frais, cheese, cream,
    yoghurts and cheeses with ice -cream made with allowed
    spices. ingredients
    Blue cheese, gorgonzola Eggs

    Miscellaneous Pickles, ketchup, soy sauce Pickles/ketchup with


    Most commercial salad allowed ingredients
    dressings lemon curd, peanut butter,
    artificial sweeteners
    Soup: homemade or tinned or
    packet soup not containing
    spices or tomato

    Crisps and nuts Dry roasted nuts, Bombay Plain nuts, seeds and crisps
    mix, spicey nuts/crisps with out spices.

    Drinks Tea if perfumed Most tea and coffee


    Carbonated drinks e.g. Coca- Red wine or White wine,
    cola/Pepsi, Dr. Peppers,
    Fanta, Irn-Bru, Sprite, Vimto
    Some beer and cider Plain or carbonated or soda
    water
    Cocktails Bournvita, Cocoa, Drinking
    Chocolate, Horlicks.
    Flavoured milks and fruit Natural fruit juices
    drinks
    Gin, Martini and Cinzano Most cider, lager, beer
    Perfumed drinks like Vodka
    Dubonnet, Malibu, Dark Whisky
    Rum, Tia Maria etc
    Mulled wine Lemonade, Appletise
    Oxo, Bovril

    Sweets and chocolate Cake decorations All sweets, chewing gum


    Cinnamon sticks with allowed ingredients,
    Chewing gum (if containing sugar, honey, molasses,
    cinnamon/benzoates) maple syrup, corn syrup,
    Chocolate and icing sugar. Plain
    Cola cubes or chewits artificial sweeteners, pure
    Flavoured syrups cocoa
    Prepared dessert fillings

    Spices Mixed spice, cinnamon Salt, pepper, herbs, spices


    powder, allspice, curry not on the avoid list
    ginger, chilli powder
    powder, cloves, aniseed

    Manufacturers lists:
    Most customer service departments of major supermarkets and manufacturers will be able to help you with individual
    food enquiries. Most also have websites which can be very useful.
    Asda: No specific information but please contact customer services on freephone: 0500 100055 for specific
    information.
    Cadbury: Old Jamaica and chocolate cream are the only products to contain cinnamon but most contain benzoate
    so chocolate products are best avoided.
    Co-op: Cinnamon free list available.
    Heinz: Cinnamon free list available.
    Marks & Spencer: No information on cinnamon free products but please contact customer services on 0207 268
    1234 for specific enquires.
    Nestle: None of the range of nestles confectionery products contain cinnamon. However Nesquick ready to drink
    chocolate flavour, Nestle cappuccino, Crosse and Blackwell Waistline reduced fat dressing and Mr Men fruit lolly
    does contain cinnamon.
    Safeway: No inforniation on cinnamon free products but please contact customer services on 0 1622 712546 for
    specific enquiries.
    Sainsburys: No specific information on cinnamon free products but please contact customer services on free phone:
    0800 636262 for specific enquiries.
    Somerfield: No specific information on cinnamon free products but contact customer services on 0 117 93593 59 for
    specific enquiries
    Tesco: No specific information on cinnamon free products but please contact free phone: 0800 505555 for specific
    enquiries
    Waitrose: Cinnamon free list available.

    Professor Crispian Scully CBE


    Eastman Dental Institute for Oral Health Care Sciences
    and International Centres for Excellence in Dentistry
    University of London
    256, Gray’s Inn Road
    London WC1X 8LD
    February2005

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