Platelets, also called thrombocytes (thromb- + -cyte, blood clot cell), are a component of blood whose function (along with the coagulation factors) is to stop bleeding by clumping and clotting blood vessel injuries.
Milk of the poppy is essentially the Westeros version of morphine. Maesters make it from crushed poppy flowers, and morphine and other opiate-based drugs are made from poppy plants. Indeed, the books' descriptions strongly suggest that the poppy is intended to be the real-world opium poppy (Papaver somniferum).
There are rumors all over the internet warning that baby carrots are a danger to your family, that they're made from deformed full-sized carrots, and that they're soaked in chlorine.. They also claim that the white film that forms on them is actually the chlorine coming to the surface..aby carrots come from regular carrots, not deformed ones. The carrots are then cut down to cocktail size and spun in machines that peel and rotate them to give them that nice rounded shape everyone likes.