What is the Cinamon Challenge?

Answer 1

The Cinnamon Challenge is a dare to any one person that they cannot eat a teaspoon full of cinnamon powder. For the majority of people, it is pretty much impossible to swallow it as it instantaneously dehydrates the inside of the mouth.

Answer 2

People do it different ways I believe. From what I have heard, you take a spoonful of cinnamon, any spoon, and leave it in your mouth for 10 seconds and 10 seconds only, then, you swallow. Hope this helped.

Answer 3

You Get a spoon and fill it with cinnamon and you put it in your mouth and try to swallow it .It will be hard to swallow because cinnamon has a drying effect making it almost impossible swallow

Answer 4

Yes! It is possible to pass the cinnamon challenge, even though it is difficult to do so. The dry texture and spice makes it hard to hold down without spitting or vomiting the cinnamon out, but if you toughen out the first ten seconds, you can force it down, although it is highly recommended to prepare milk and waterbefore you do the challenge.

Water is handy to wash out the cinnamon, although sometimes it doesn't diffuse the spice of the cinnamon and is likely to cause you to vomit or at least expel the spice. Milk diffuses most of the spice and washes out the cinnamon, but due to the high fat content it is possible that one can vomit anyway.

In conclusion, despite the obvious difficulty of the challenge, one can pass the cinnamon challenge. Personally it's an almost horrific experience to just attempt the challenge itself, but I have passed it and I'm sure anyone else could too. Because of its powdery texture, attempting to down Chinese stomach powder medicine is similar to downing cinnamon. If you have experience with such powders, the cinnamon challenge suddenly becomes a breeze. So yes, it is possible to pass the cinnamon challenge

Answer 5

the cinamon challenge is when you try swallow a sppon fulll of cinamon and you end up choking and dying or constant vomiting and diaorea, this can cause heart attacks and for your body to shut down, i say do it, don't drop oi, do it!

Answer 6

The Challenge first of all is meant to be a prank so that all those ‘friends’ watching can “laugh out loud” at you expense. However this prank is actually very dangerous and can cause pneumonia, collapsed lungs, coma, and even death. This is due to the fact that cinnamon is very easy to inhale and is a dangerous internal irritant. The challenge originated around 2001, gained viral popularity around 2007 and peaked in January of 2012. Since then it has still continued but at a deceased rate. If anyone asks you to do the cinnamon challenge absolutely decline. However if you cannot overcome a triple dog dare the challenge is possible to accomplish for some (I’ll leave some tips). The rule is to fill an exact full tablespoon with cinnamon powder found in almost any spice rack and to swallow it completely in under 60 seconds without the aid of any liquid of any kind. If you are going to attempt the challenge make sure you have a full glass of water or preferably milk.

So here is my story... In July 2013 I was living in a house with many roommates. The cost of living in the Bay Area is on another level! One day we were all hanging out around the kitchen and one of my close friends said something like “Hey, have you ever heard of the cinnamon challenge?” I respond “No, what’s that?” He then explains the rules and urges me to give it a try. Well, I actually really like cinnamon so I said “Sure, why not!” He fills a tablespoon with cinnamon and insists that instead of flatting the top that there should be a little mound “just to make sure you do the right amount.” I don’t complain and another ‘friend’ gets his phone out to her ready to start the timer. Okay, here we go! I dump the entire overloaded tablespoon straight into my mouth and the timer starts! Immediately my mouth becomes totally completely dry making it impossible to swallow. Shortly after as I take my short breath, cinnamon flies absolutely everywhere coating everything from both nostrils to my entire throat, mouth and down my esophagus! At this point everyone around me who obviously knew about the prank began to giggle with laughter at my ignorant self. But no matter, I was determined to push on! Just to let you know I have a biochemistry degree with addition of every extra pre-med courses. I believed it helped me quickly figure out the trick to be able to accomplish this challenge. Now first of all I believe it is very important that you actually like cinnamon and all kinds of spices (like spicy chilies high in capsaicin which may give you an advantage). As best I could I shifted the cinnamon powder split to both sides of my cheek in a desperate attempt to immediately produce as much saliva as possible. The first ten seconds are the worst, and which your friends laugh and their is a high risk of you choking, coughing and vomiting and failing the challenge. It is important that you do not breath at all through your mouth where the cinnamon powder is and mange with small slow spaced out breaths only through your nose (you can use your tongue to help block passage of air into your mouth by lifting the back up to the roof of your mouth). So once I got some saliva building back up I could begin to slowly pass the cinnamon down my throat. This is where I had some key advantages that came into play. For one thing I can dry swallow almost any pill, even ‘horse pills.’ Also the crazy ‘guzzling’ consumption of alcohol during parties while in college. I may have had a natural talent as I am half Irish, but I believe it was because back in high school I had a close friend that during every lunch period he would challenge me to compete with him in chugging full cans or bottles of highly Carbonated Beverages of various sodas (pops). Everyone knows that friend who needs to alway challenge everything. So, as if you were to down a entire bottle of vodka as fast as possible, you completely open your throat, close down all other passage way (nose and lungs), and make a wide open clear path from your mouth strait down clear through the expanded esophagus directly to your stomach as best as possible. You will have to effectively use your available saliva and with your tongue lightly lather to wet the powder as much as possible and start shoveling down as fast as possible. At this point I had practically emptied my mouth out completely. Those around me were no longer laughing but now encouraging yelling “you have get it all down!” This was a slight challenge as it’s not easy to wipe all the powder clinging to your mouth down your throat, it requires fast tongue movement. I then opened my mouth to prove there was ZERO cinnamon. Timer stopped, everyone was in complete disbelief; I completed the Cinnamon Challenge in only 47 seconds!

There are two types of cinnamon, Cassia (typical store bought) and Ceylon (True cinnamon). Ceylon in particular has the most health benefits of any spice and arguably better than most western medicines for many conditions due to cinnamaldehyde.

Answer 7

Cinnamon Spoon Full the spoon with cinnamon Put it in your mouth