One cannot imagine a festive table without home-baked goods, with the showstopper being the delightful poppy seed roll. Despite seeming relatively simple, baking this cake can get complex.

But had he met less forgiving people on his way, the ending of his anecdote wouldn’t necessarily be a happy one. Sweet rolls containing poppy seeds with a high morphine content instead of comestible ...

White poppy seeds are not widely available, but you will find them in Indian grocers. Because they’re so small and have a tendency to stick together, poppy seeds are often dry-roasted ...

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 ...

Quickly picking up bread rolls on a Sunday morning can be difficult ... But Australians are also enthusiastic about their pretzels and poppy seed buns. But the road to success was sometimes ...

It sounds like a joke: poppy seeds infused with opioids. Indeed, it was a plotline on the sitcom Seinfeld. But for some it has been a tragedy. People have died after drinking tea brewed from ...

It sounds like a joke: poppy seeds infused with opioids. Indeed, it was a plotline on the sitcom “Seinfeld.” But for some it has been a tragedy. People have died after drinking tea brewed from ...

A Taliban spokesman told the BBC they imposed the ban because of the harmful effects of opium - which is taken from the poppy seed capsules - and because it goes against their religious beliefs.