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Poppy Seeds, Anyone?

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Changing4Best

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I love to eat crackers with poppy seeds in them. I am told that if I ever had to take a drug test, that my results would be positive, because of these crackers with their poppy seeds in them. They are addictive for me, I love eating them and they seem to make me feel good, same as chocolate does. Do any of you have a thing for poppy seeds?
 
Very much so. I wish I could get this where I'm temporarily living outside the U.S. But I use to love poppy seed bagels, then switched to poppy seed crackers for healthier option. Thinking back I think they did make me feel good, or maybe just brought down anxiety level.
 
The tests are sensitive enough to pick up the trace amounts of opiates in them... But the poppy seeds that are used in cooking/food/etc., aren't opiated poppy seeds. So no worries! You can't become dependent/addicted to these kinds of poppy seeds.:)

It's like hemp comes from a species of marijuana that doesn't have more than trace amounts of cannibinoids.

Asiatic Poppies are the opiated ones. While generally illegal in the US you'll still find them in churches/parks/private properties that planted them before sale became illegal / they're grandfathered in (and almost impossible to get rid of... Many public parks have tried... But weeds are weeds, they're durn good at surviving!). Even Asiatic Poppies, though, the seeds contain very low amounts of opioids / aren't a good source for making opium or other derivatives. The concentration in that plant aren't in the flowers/buds/seeds (unlike marijuana)... But in the sap, the poppy "milk". To make opium/heroin/morphine/codeine/etc. you take a razor blade and make thin slices to let the sap/milk ooze out, and collect that (or more waste fully, boil the whole plant). The seeds are essentially worthless / you'd have to consume almost a kilogram of them to get the same effect as less than a gram of poppy milk. Even in nations which grow poppies for opiate production? Don't bother with the seeds / they get used in cooking or to mark roadside bombs / etc. But poppy milk? Super opioid rich poppy milk? Still has to be refined & go through a couple steps to produce opium, much less the even more refined versions (heroin, morphine, codeine, etc.).

<grin> Poppyseed bagels & muffins are my favorite!

Eta... Now I wanna bagel! :P
 
I eat crackers with them in them every day. I just love the taste of them I guess. I'm addicted to food in general, so I have to be careful or I gain weight a lot and it sure is harder to lose than it is to gain weight!
 
I eat crackers with them in them every day. I just love the taste of them I guess. I'm addicted to f...

<grin> Okay... You just made me super curious, esp. since I love them too, so I went and looked up the nutritional value! Come to find (big WOW coming) :

Low Glycemic Index, Low Fat (yet an oil based seed)...Are also a good source of Dietary Fiber, Thiamin, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus and Copper, and a very good source of Calcium and Manganese!!!

1 tablespoon of poppy seeds (about 1 bagel, 1/5th of a muffin, IDK crackers?)

46 calories

1% Potassium
4% Iron
7% Magnesium
12% Calcium
And those awesome trace minerals!

Plus

1.6 grams of protein
1.7 grams of fiber

Yah! Go Poppy Seed Goodness! :D:smug::inlove:

I'm going to start adding them to more things :) Dietary vitamin & mineral sources are soooo much easier to digest & absorb than pills! We only get roughly 10% of the vitamins and minerals that are in vitamin pills. And fresh sources are often super expensive and go bad quickly. Im so glad you posted this!
 
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