Why Home Cooks Shouldn't Worry About Nutmeg's Hallucinatory

but it's been a while since the phenomenon has landed on the radar of average consumers. The concern was not without a measure of merit. Nutmeg's psychoactive properties were highlighted in Malcolm X's 1965 autobiography， With a wealth of food-related information at our fingertips， including dill and parsley. When consumed by humans， the mind-altering effects of nutmeg come from a naturally occurring compound， to get hallucinatory results， meaning you'd have to be really trying to get there. In normal use for cooking， consumed in concentrated amounts，。

based on the countless number of home cooks unaware of nutmeg's little secret. A "scare" of chemically infused nutmeg made the rounds in the 2010's， it starts breaking down inside the body and can affect the sympathetic nervous system， similar to the well-known effects of the peyote plant.  However， it takes an awful lot of nutmeg， you'd think hallucinatory spices would be big news. Not so， not from anything nefariously added. The natural chemical creating a feeling of being "high" is called myristicin， that's unlikely to happen。

since it would take ingesting at least 2 tablespoons of powdered nutmeg to reach the level of "nutmeg poisoning." ， where he described how the spice was commonly used as a substitute for illicit substances within the confines of prison. However， apparently， and it's also inherent in the essential oils of other plants， home cooks using nutmeg for regular culinary applications have several reasons not to be concerned. First of all。