Comparing EU ban on mild spices with what South Asians ingest

Will the US see the European Union announcement about the imminent ban of the Danish pastry called the kanelsnegler as an evil move to stop the onward roll of its increasingly popular Americanised coffee-mate, the cinnamon bun? The two, after all, are basically the same, except for a few variable transcontinental additions. Unfortunately, the Danes seem to have hastened the binning of their bun by calling it a morning staple; for, its cross-border Swedish avatar has been saved from a similar fate by being deemed a “traditional and seasonal” delicacy.

Inexplicably, Brussels has sprouted differing cinnamon content for the same pastry depending on its prevalence, so merely by deeming it a treat rather than a habit allows for more than three times the amount of cinnamon — the aromatic that gives the pastry its cachet.

However, given that the average cinnamon bun contains negligible levels of coumarin — the toxin naturally found in small quantities in cassia bark, the cheaper commercial cinnamon — habitual consumers are more likely to die of obesity than deadly Danishes. In fact, more south Asians should be more at risk than kanels-loving Scandinavians as cassia and cinnamon are quite ubiquitous in the subcontinental spice mix and, therefore, generously ingested by us. Will EU ban curries next, or perhaps garam masala?