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Alkaloid

Level 3ContestedIn Winter's Dictionary

Alkaloid is a other — Group of nitrogenous compounds from plants

What it does

Group of nitrogenous compounds from plants

Where you'll see it

Plants - tropine, morphine, nicotine, quinine, codeine, caffeine, cocaine, strychnine

What the research says

Alkaloids are potent and include the hallucinogen mescaline and the deadly poison brucine.

Sources

  • A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives (Winter): The alkaloids are potent and include the hallucinogen mescaline and the deadly poison brucine