Socially Responsible Unique Cinnamon for Connoisseurs

Culinary Truth’s Cinnamon

by Capital for the Marginalized Ltd.December, 2010

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Sri Lanka topographical Map, brown high, green jungle or shrub; showing Matara city, capital of Matara District

A Traditional Cinnamon Caste Worker and Family

Traditional worker – child labor

Traditional workers peeling cinnamon – need child labor

Another place – traditional worker peeling off inner bark (permanent ‘V’ observed between toes of older workers)

Traditional workers stuff the cinnamon sticks (semi dried roll with pieces)

Traditional SULFUR Fumigation of rolled cinnamon (closed chamber process continues till all the cinnamon is yellow in color – open air restores original color in about 3 months)

The long & big bundles inside Trader’s store for export (Sizing and Mixing is done outside Sri Lanka)

EU Food standard Factory in Growing Fields that supplies Culinary Truths Solely

University designed tool and workbenches used when removing outer bark

Women factory workers can beat the bark removed branch prior to peeling inner bark using Prof Weerasinghe’s social innovation award winning mechanical invention

Historic FIRST of hygienic healthy factory produced long unstuffed cinnamon peel of still fresh sap-wet inner bark just hours from cutting in field

Drying is done immediately in the factory

Produced by Happy Workers; here having a tea break on company time

Happy Workers wave goodbye to interested visitor team to their factory

Packaging on estate factory early manufacture by Culinary Truths

Early Packaging Culinary Truths on estate site