Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Freak Out About Lead In Your Cinnamon

Enlarge / Cinnamon buns. (credit: Getty | Christoph Schmidt) Consumer Reports on Thursday reported the concentration of lead it found in 36 ground cinnamon products, leading to a round of startling headlines. The testing is particularly nerve-racking given that it closely follows the tragic poisoning of at least 519 US children, who were exposed to extremely high levels of lead from purposefully tainted cinnamon in applesauce snack pouches. With that horrifying event in mind, parents are likely primed to be alarmed by any other lead findings in cinnamon.