A new study reveals that adding cinnamon to your daily diet could help cool your body and promote general improvement of overall health.

The study, published in the journal Scientific Results, showed that cinnamon has the ability to help maintain the integrity of the stomach wall. Furthermore, animal models who consumed cinnamon as part of their daily diet cooled their body down by up to two degrees Celsius.

"No wonder cinnamon is so popular in warm regions as taking it makes people feel better and gives them a feeling of cooling down," said Dr Jian Zhen Ou, one of the researchers of the study, in a statement.

For the study, the researchers used four female crossbred pigs. The pigs were kept in four different conditions and were fed with a commercial ration supplemented with 0 or 1.5 percent cinnamon. The pigs were housed under either thermoneutral or heat-stress conditions.

The researchers observed that carbon dioxide inside the pigs' stomach increases when they were fed at room temperature. When given cinnamon supplement, the pigs stomach cools down during ingestion. The cooling effect of the cinnamon is the result of reduced carbon dioxide concentration in the pigs' stomach. The cinnamon decreases the secretion of gastric acid and pepsin from the stomach walls, causing the reduction of carbon dioxide.

Furthermore, the researchers noted that the production of carbon dioxide also reduces when the pigs are hot and hyperventilating. This natural cooling response of the pig, paired by the cooling effects of cinnamon, decrease carbon dioxide production even further.

The study is part of a bigger study at RMIT University in Australia. With their findings, the researchers hope to revolutionize food science by showing how ingestible gas sensor capsules can provide valuable insights into the functioning and health of the gut.

"Our experiments with pigs and cinnamon show how swallowable gas sensor capsules can help provide new physiological information that will improve our understanding of diet or medicine," said Professor Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, from RMIT University's School of Engineering in Melbourne, Australia and leader of the study, in a press release.