Nuts

Papaver somniferum

S tier

Papaver somniferum is the opium poppy species that also yields culinary poppy seeds—tiny kidney-shaped seeds with nutty oil richness and no opium content in the mature seed when properly produced. Blue and white seed colours are trade forms of this species. Toast lightly for bagels, cakes, and Indian milk sweets. Food-grade seed is the only appropriate kitchen product. Species clarity separates culinary seed from illicit contexts around other plant parts.