Every year, a topic is mentioned: Hot pot is so attractive and so sweet. Does it have a poppy shell? Can poppy shells really add flavor to food? Can poppy be used as food seasoning?

actually, people's concerns about adding poppy shells to catering companies are not unreasonable. Long-term consumption of food containing poppy shells is very addictive, and may cause damage to people's nervous system and may lead to chronic poisoning. These negative effects are mainly caused by alkaloids in poppy shells, including morphine, codeine, papaverine, thebaine, narcotine and other alkaloids, the most famous of which is morphine. Codeine and papaverine, these three compounds have the highest alkaloid content in poppy shell. These alkaloids in poppy shells have different degrees of addiction. Although the content in poppy shell is not as high as that in poppy juice and leaves, long-term consumption will pose a threat to human health.

Because it contains addictive ingredients, why add poppy shells to food? Can poppy shells really add flavor to food? In fact, this statement has been repeatedly rumored by many experts. The poppy shell itself has no taste, and it is a little sour. Therefore, "the smell of poppy shells" is totally unreasonable.

There is another sentence on the Internet: "Adding poppy shells to food can prevent diarrhea. Because poppy shells have the function of stopping diarrhea, adding poppy shells is mainly hot pot, which is easy to cause diarrhea. " Indeed, poppy shell has the function of relieving cough and preventing diarrhea, and it is also allowed by the country with pharmaceutical ingredients. It contains the ingredients of poppy shell in various antitussive drugs. However, the use of poppy shells requires strict dosage. Food companies that add food cannot meet this requirement. Therefore, the national regulatory authorities explicitly prohibit the addition of poppy shells to food.

Although poppy, as the raw material of opium, has brought heavy memories to our country, it has brought people not only drugs, but also medicine.