Nutrients in Poppy Seeds

• These poppy seed rolls are delicious and nutritious.small loaf with poppy-seed image by AGphotographer from Fotolia.com
  
  Despite being so small, poppy seeds pack a big nutritional punch. If you are looking for an easy way to add fiber, minerals, and the wonder fat, omega-3, to your diet, 1 tbsp. of poppy seeds is the way to go. Add poppy seeds to your morning pancakes, cereal or muffins, to your lunchtime green or fruit salads and to the rice you cook for dinner. One simple tablespoon contains quite a bit of nutrition and the 46 calories that a tablespoon of poppy seeds contains is well worth it for the nutritional value added.
  
  

Omege-3 Fatty Acid

• Salmon is one of the best sources of Omega-3.salmon image by cherie from Fotolia.com
  
  One tablespoon of poppy seeds contains 23.9 mg of omega-3 fatty acid, which is rare in the diets of most people in the United States. and is not produced naturally in the body. Also found in abundance in fatty, cold-water fish, Omega-3 provides the basis for hormones that help our body's immune systems, that assist with blood clotting and that contribute to healthy cell and cell membrane growth. Nutritionalists promote increasing omega-3 in the diet as one of the healthiest changes people can make to their diets.
  
  

Fiber

• Fiber, found in what bread, bran and poppy seeds is essential for a healthy diet.bread image by AGphotographer from Fotolia.com
  
  Poppy seeds contain 1.7 grams of fiber, or 7 percent of the recommended daily value. Tablespoon for tablespoon, poppy seeds far exceed the amount of fiber in a popular oat cereals, which has 1 gram of fiber per each 3/4 cup serving and 4 percent of the daily value for fiber. Besides helping with digestive regularity, fiber can also fill you up without adding a lot of calories. Scientists at the Mayo Clinic cite other benefits of fiber as well, such as its ability to lower the risk of both diabetes and heart disease.
  
  

Minerals

• You can get minerals from vitamin pills and from poppy seeds.Daily Vitamins and Minerals image by LynWatanabe.com from Fotolia.com
  
  With 5 percent of the daily value for thiamin, 13 percent for calcium, 5 percent iron, 8 percent phosphorus, 2 percent potassium, 5 percent zinc and 29 percent manganese, poppy seeds go a long way in helping people get essential minerals. Minerals are critical in helping the cells function. One study cited by the U.S. Senate found that 99 percent of people were lacking in some minerals.