{"id":12665,"date":"2026-10-19T06:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/?p=12665"},"modified":"2026-10-19T06:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:35:41","slug":"poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppy Seeds (Khus Khus): Benefits, Nutrition, Uses and Side Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.entry-content a:not([href*=\"medkart.in\"]) > span {\n    vertical-align: super !important;\n    font-size: 85% !important;\n    line-height: 0 !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<style>\n.entry-content h2,\n.entry-content h3,\n.entry-content h4 {\n    white-space: nowrap !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khus khus is the Indian name for poppy seed, the small kidney-shaped seed of the plant Papaver somniferum. The same plant is the opium poppy, which is why this one kitchen ingredient carries a regulatory history that sesame and cumin do not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The seed itself is a food. It is dense in fat, fibre and minerals, and it is used in gravies, sweets and breads. It also sits inside a food-safety question about opium alkaloids that European regulators have assessed in detail, and that question shapes most of what follows.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What Are Poppy Seeds, and What Plant Do They Come From?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poppy seeds are the mature seeds of Papaver somniferum. The United States Department of Agriculture database<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fdc.nal.usda.gov\/portal-data\/external\/171330\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> records them under the description spices, poppy seed, and names that species.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plant is the source of opium, but the part eaten is not. The seeds develop inside the seed capsule and are harvested when mature. By that point the milky latex that carries the alkaloids is no longer present in them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeds sold for food are used whole or milled. A 2022 paper in Foods<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9562219\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> describes them as suitable for consumption whole or milled into foodstuffs. It reports poppy cake, the residue left after oil pressing, as a high-fibre and high-protein ingredient.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What Is the Nutritional Value of Poppy Seeds?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poppy seeds are one of the more mineral-dense seeds recorded. These figures are from the USDA database.<\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Nutrient<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>What 100 g of poppy seeds provides<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Energy<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poppy seed provides 525 kcal per 100 g.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Fat<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Total fat is 41.6 g per 100 g.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Protein<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protein is 18 g per 100 g.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Carbohydrate<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carbohydrate by difference is 28.1 g per 100 g.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Fibre<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Total dietary fibre is 19.5 g per 100 g.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Calcium<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calcium is 1,440 mg per 100 g.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Phosphorus<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phosphorus is 870 mg per 100 g.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Potassium<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Potassium is 719 mg per 100 g.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Magnesium<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Magnesium is 347 mg per 100 g.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Iron<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iron is 9.76 mg per 100 g.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Zinc<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zinc is 7.9 mg per 100 g.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those numbers need reading against a real portion. Poppy seeds are used by the spoonful rather than the bowlful, so a recipe carries a small fraction of every figure above. The Foods paper measured a similar profile, reporting 38.87% fat, 31.82% fibre and 14.62% protein.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What Are the Benefits of Poppy Seeds?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defensible benefits are nutritional. The calcium figure is the striking one, and the iron, magnesium, phosphorus and zinc contents are all substantial for a seed used in small amounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fat is mostly unsaturated. In the Foods analysis the largest fraction by some distance was linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated fat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond composition, the evidence thins sharply. No clinical trial showing a health outcome from eating poppy seeds was retrieved for this article. The benefits described here are the nutrients the seed contains, not effects measured in people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Also Read:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/10-calcium-rich-foods\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 Calcium Rich Foods<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>How Are Poppy Seeds Used?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In food, they are used whole, ground, or pressed for oil. The Foods paper describes both the whole and milled forms, and the European assessment discusses poppy seeds in bakery products as a main dietary route.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Processing matters more here than with most spices. The European Food Safety Authority<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC7009406\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> names washing, soaking, heat treatment and grinding as the steps that matter. It states that those may reduce the alkaloid content of raw poppy seeds by 25% to 100% in the final product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is a description of what the assessment found, not an instruction. It does mean that seeds eaten raw and unwashed are the form carrying the most alkaloid, and baked or cooked preparations the least.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Do Poppy Seeds Contain Opium?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not in themselves. The European Food Safety Authority states that mature poppy seeds do not contain the latex. They can, however, become contaminated with opium alkaloids through pest damage and during harvest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two routes are described. Dust from the capsule wall settles on the seeds during harvesting, and insect damage to immature capsules releases droplets of latex onto them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The assessment covered six alkaloids: morphine, codeine, thebaine and oripavine, together with papaverine and noscapine. It set an acute reference dose of 10 micrograms of morphine per kilogram of body weight. Codeine is converted into morphine equivalents using a factor of 0.2.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What Side Effects Can Poppy Seeds Cause?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The effects that matter are alkaloid effects rather than digestive ones. The European assessment modelled poppy seeds with high alkaloid content. It found that mean and high dietary exposure exceeded its acute reference dose in most age groups by up to 33 times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Positive opiate tests are the second documented consequence, covered in the FAQs below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most serious reported harm comes from preparations that concentrate the alkaloids rather than from culinary use. A 2023 case report in the American Journal of Case Reports<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9887487\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> describes opioid use disorder developing in a man who drank a home-made infusion of unwashed poppy seeds twice daily. Its authors list dependence, accidental overdose, death and neonatal withdrawal among the harms associated with that practice. This article does not describe how such a preparation is made.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Who Should Be Careful with Poppy Seeds?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The European assessment names specific groups, and the reasons differ between them.<\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Situation<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>What to do<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Pregnancy<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The European Food Safety Authority names pregnant women among the groups vulnerable to opium alkaloid exposure from poppy seeds.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Infants and young children<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same assessment names infants among the vulnerable groups, and body weight is what the reference dose is calculated against.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>People over 75<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The assessment names people above 75 years of age among those more vulnerable to the effects.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Impaired breathing<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It names people with health conditions involving impaired respiratory function, which is the system opioids depress.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Anyone facing a drug test<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poppy seed ingestion has been shown to produce urine morphine concentrations above standard testing cut-offs.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Anyone on opioid substitution treatment<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raise poppy seed intake with the treating clinician, because an unexpected positive result can affect a treatment programme.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><b>How Are Poppy Seeds Regulated in India?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poppy seed is not an ordinary grocery import. The Central Bureau of Narcotics<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cbn.gov.in\/en\/exim\/overview\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which sits under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance, regulates it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Importers must apply to the Narcotics Commissioner in a prescribed format and register the contract before importing. The bureau lists the documents required, including the original sales or export-import contract and a prescribed fee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First-time importers face further requirements. The bureau lists an Import-Export Code from the DGFT, Spices Board registration, three years of income tax returns with a PAN, and three years of company balance sheets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That framework applies to import rather than to buying khus khus in a shop. No Indian survey of alkaloid levels in retail poppy seed could be retrieved for this article.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Where Can You Buy Nutritional Supplements on Medkart?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medkart does not sell poppy seeds, which are a grocery item rather than a pharmacy one. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medkart<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does sell the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/categories\/nutritional-supplements\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nutritional supplements<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that cover the same minerals, alongside its wider range of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/order-medicine\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">medicines<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listed calcium products include <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/order-medicine\/calcimax-250mg-tablet-30s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calcimax<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/order-medicine\/calcimax-total-tablet-15s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calcimax Total<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Meyer Organics. Iron preparations include <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/order-medicine\/ferrotem-xt-tablet-10s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ferrotem XT<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/order-medicine\/haemaday-plus-tablet-15s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haemaday Plus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/composition\/ayurvedic\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ayurvedic preparations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are listed separately. Availability, pack size and price differ between products and can change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A supplement is not a substitute for a varied diet, and Medkart lists these products without testing or approving them. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/compare-medicines\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medkart&#8217;s medicine comparison tools<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can be used to compare listed options on:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Active ingredient<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strength<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dosage form<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manufacturer<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pack size<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current price<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone already taking a prescribed medicine should discuss a new supplement with a doctor or pharmacist.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Key takeaways\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khus khus is the seed of Papaver somniferum, the same plant that produces opium.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mature seeds do not contain opium latex, but can be contaminated during harvest or by pest damage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poppy seed provides 525 kcal and 1,440 mg of calcium per 100 g, though it is eaten by the spoonful.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fat is mostly unsaturated, with linoleic acid the largest fraction of the pressed oil.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No clinical trial showing a health outcome from eating poppy seeds was retrieved for this article.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">European regulators set an acute reference dose of 10 micrograms of morphine per kilogram of body weight.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washing, soaking, heating and grinding were found to cut alkaloid content by 25% to 100%.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poppy seed import into India is regulated by the Central Bureau of Narcotics.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>FAQs\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3><b>Q. Can eating poppy seeds make a drug test positive?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, and it has been measured. A 2014 study in Forensic Science International<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC4127332\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gave 19 volunteers two 45 g doses of poppy seeds containing 15.7 mg of morphine and 3 mg of codeine each. Median peak urine morphine reached 5,239 micrograms per litre, and 83.4% of specimens were above the 300 micrograms per litre cut-off.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Q. Does washing or heating poppy seeds remove the opium alkaloids?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It reduces them rather than removing them reliably. The European assessment puts the reduction from washing, soaking, heat treatment and grinding at anywhere between a quarter and all of the alkaloid content. That range is wide because the starting level and the treatment both vary, so no single step can be relied on.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Q. Is poppy seed oil the same as eating the seeds?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No, and the composition differs. The Foods analysis reports the cold-pressed oil as 62.8% linoleic acid, 22.5% oleic acid and 11% palmitic acid. The pressing residue is left richer in fibre and protein than the whole seed. Oil, whole seed and cake are three different ingredients.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Q. Why do alkaloid levels vary so much between batches?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because contamination is incidental rather than inherent. The case report records morphine at 10 to 105 mg per kg of seeds and codeine at 3.1 to 11.2 mg per kg, a tenfold spread for morphine. Harvest handling and pest damage differ between crops, so one batch is not a guide to another.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Q. Do poppy seeds help with sleep?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No source retrieved for this article supports that. Khus khus is widely described as calming, but no clinical evidence for an effect on sleep was found in the sources opened here. That is a statement about what could be retrieved, not a finding that the seed does nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Q. Do the European figures apply to poppy seeds sold in India?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They describe samples assessed in Europe. The alkaloid content depends on how a particular crop was harvested and handled, and no Indian survey of retail poppy seed was retrieved for this article. The reference dose is a measure of human tolerance rather than of any national supply, so that part carries across.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>References\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fdc.nal.usda.gov\/portal-data\/external\/171330\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/fdc.nal.usda.gov\/portal-data\/external\/171330<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9562219\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9562219\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC7009406\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC7009406\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9887487\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9887487\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cbn.gov.in\/en\/exim\/overview\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/cbn.gov.in\/en\/exim\/overview\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC4127332\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC4127332\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Medical disclaimer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This article gives general information only. It does not replace advice from a doctor or pharmacist. No medicine or supplement should be started, stopped or changed without advice from the prescriber or a qualified pharmacist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khus khus is the Indian name for poppy seed, the small kidney-shaped seed of the plant Papaver somniferum. The same plant is the opium poppy, which is why this one kitchen ingredient carries a regulatory history that sesame and cumin do not. The seed itself is a food. It is dense in fat, fibre and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-wellness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Poppy Seeds (Khus Khus): Benefits, Uses &amp; Side Effects | Medkart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Khus khus is the Indian name for poppy seeds. Learn their nutrition, health benefits, kitchen uses, side effects, and who should be careful with them.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Poppy Seeds (Khus Khus): Benefits, Uses &amp; Side Effects | Medkart\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Khus khus is the Indian name for poppy seeds. Learn their nutrition, health benefits, kitchen uses, side effects, and who should be careful with them.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"www.medkart.in\/blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-10-19T06:35:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-10-19T06:35:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.medkart.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6-1024x576.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dr. Meera Sinha\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dr. Meera Sinha\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"9 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Poppy Seeds (Khus Khus): Benefits, Uses & Side Effects | Medkart","description":"Khus khus is the Indian name for poppy seeds. Learn their nutrition, health benefits, kitchen uses, side effects, and who should be careful with them.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Poppy Seeds (Khus Khus): Benefits, Uses & Side Effects | Medkart","og_description":"Khus khus is the Indian name for poppy seeds. Learn their nutrition, health benefits, kitchen uses, side effects, and who should be careful with them.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/","og_site_name":"www.medkart.in\/blog","article_published_time":"2026-10-19T06:35:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-10-19T06:35:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":576,"url":"https:\/\/blog.medkart.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6-1024x576.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Dr. Meera Sinha","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dr. Meera Sinha","Est. reading time":"9 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/"},"author":{"name":"Dr. Meera Sinha","@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b4dc131f35f2bf45e99c98477140701b"},"headline":"Poppy Seeds (Khus Khus): Benefits, Nutrition, Uses and Side Effects","datePublished":"2026-10-19T06:35:09+00:00","dateModified":"2026-10-19T06:35:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/"},"wordCount":1798,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blog.medkart.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6.png","articleSection":["Health &amp; Wellness"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/","url":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/","name":"Poppy Seeds (Khus Khus): Benefits, Uses & Side Effects | Medkart","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blog.medkart.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6.png","datePublished":"2026-10-19T06:35:09+00:00","dateModified":"2026-10-19T06:35:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b4dc131f35f2bf45e99c98477140701b"},"description":"Khus khus is the Indian name for poppy seeds. Learn their nutrition, health benefits, kitchen uses, side effects, and who should be careful with them.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blog.medkart.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blog.medkart.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6.png","width":1672,"height":941},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/poppy-seeds-khus-khus-benefits\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Poppy Seeds (Khus Khus): Benefits, Nutrition, Uses and Side Effects"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/","name":"www.medkart.in\/blog","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b4dc131f35f2bf45e99c98477140701b","name":"Dr. Meera Sinha","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/69124152840c46e021f37d4f98d277fba1f32b05d84ea0a8e4cd3c77feeb9577?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/69124152840c46e021f37d4f98d277fba1f32b05d84ea0a8e4cd3c77feeb9577?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/69124152840c46e021f37d4f98d277fba1f32b05d84ea0a8e4cd3c77feeb9577?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dr. Meera Sinha"},"url":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/author\/digitalobsession\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12667,"href":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12665\/revisions\/12667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medkart.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}