Poppy Oil (Oleum papaveris) is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the garden or opium poppy, Papaver Somniferum.
Poppy seeds contain up to 50% of a high quality oil similar to sunflower oil.
Poppy seed oil is a typical semi-drying oil which is used in artists' paints, soaps after dehydrogenation and in oleo-chemical processing as a source of linoleic acid (C18:2).
The oil is largely used in the north of France and in Germany as a salad oil, and is less liable than olive oil to rancidity.
