Poppy as a food

The oily, pleasant and nutty smelling of opium poppy seeds are used as food especially sweets and pastries. The most popular recipes such as poppy seed, poppy seeds, or Mohnpielen Germknödel come from Poland. From there they came to Austria, is considered a classic poppy growing areas. The Austrian cuisine is particularly rich in Mohnrezepten. In the modern Austrian cuisine is poppy and creative use in food and cheese.

Poppy seed delivers a fat content of 40-50% by cold pressing the high-quality poppy. In Japan, poppy is also used in spice blends. It also is used as feed and in the pharmacy.

There are white, gray and blue to blue-black poppy seed available. The white varieties are mainly those from India who come to us traded blue varieties mostly from Turkey, Czech Republic, Hungary and Australia. Every year in Germany around 8000 tons of processed poppy seed. For poppy seed extraction is used only because other poppy varieties are considered ineffectual or unwholesome.

With a calcium content of 2.475% belongs to the poppy seed calciumreichsten food. Poppy is also rich in B vitamins. The morphine content of poppy seeds is usually very low (0.005%) and health risk, but can lead to the consumption of food mohnreichen to positive results for drug tests. In a study by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) found that more contaminated poppy varieties are (traded up to 0.06%). The reason is apparently new harvest methods, where the poppy capsules are crushed and thus latex escaping. It is expected that soon set limits for morphine, which determine the transport capacity.


Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlafmohn
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