poppy seeds are the seeds of a poppy flower—specifically the papaver somniferum. This variety, also known as a breadseed or ...

or Made Into Oil Poppy seeds come from the opium poppy (or breadseed poppy), a flowering plant likely indigenous to lower Mesopotamia (Southwest Asia). These kidney-shaped, speck-sized dried seeds ...

On the United States Anti-Doping Agency website there is a page dedicated to poppy seeds that explains the seeds can be coated with or absorb a small amount of opium that could cause a positive ...

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Eating even a small amount of food containing poppy seed can lead to a false positive on drugs tests. You probably know that poppies sprung up in their thousands on Flanders fields after the ...

To ensure seeds stay moist, cover them with a thin ... They grow effortlessly from seed and are close relatives of opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Be advised that any poppy species, if overly ...

She checked her smartphone to find out the plant is an opium poppy called atsumigeshi ... system and diffuses large numbers of tiny seeds. Tokushima Prefecture conducts an annual campaign to ...

By contrast, most small farmers were forced to turn their opium into cash immediately in order to recoup their outlays on seeds and fertilizer ... took action against poppy cultivation in May ...