Most poppy seeds you'll see have been washed to reduce the amount of opium alkaloids, but they won’t be eliminated entirely.

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. It sounds like a joke: poppy seeds infused with opioids. Indeed, it was a plotline on the sitcom Seinfeld.

Purchasing poppy seeds that have not been washed is currently a nebulous legal category. Buying poppy seeds for cooking or baking is completely legal. However, other parts of opium poppies - from ...

But not all poppy seeds will lead to a positive drug test — it depends on whether the seeds are washed beforehand or not, which removes the outer residue. Dominguez delivered Carter later that ...