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2011

Author

Gevenkiriş, Ali

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Turkey is important major licid opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum) producer for medicinal and scientific purposes in the world and one of the two traditional producer country. The poppy seeds which are unique part of the opium poppy are used for food purpose. About 25.000 ton/year poppy seeds were produced for food purpose. Recent years morphine content of commercially available poppy seeds were speculated. Some studies have been reported that poppy seeds from different origins contain a wide variation of morphine (2 – 294) μg/g content. They have been used also different sample preparation method (extraction and derivatization) and different instruments (GC-MS) during analyses. In this study morphine content was determined in Turkish origin which were white, yellow and blue poppy seeds colors by using high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). Different sample preparation method (without derivatization) was used. Morphine was eluted from poppy seeds by acidic water through stationary phase activated aluminum oxide. Poppy seed samples were collected from 13 provinces and 35 different sowing fields of Turkey. The determined morphine contents in poppy seeds were ranged between (9.73 to 37.46) μg/g. Any study was not found in the literatures on determination of total phenolic in poppy seed. In this study, the optimum condition for extraction of polyphenols in poppy seeds was determined and then, total phenolic values were obtained in three different colours seeds by spectrophotometric method. At the end of experiments the total phenolic contents in white, yellow and blue colours poppy seed were found to be 4.44, 3.05 and 3.67 mg/g respectively.

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Opium poppy, Seed poppy

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613052/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20392

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis