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Areca catechu (betel nut)

Palm whose seed, the areca or betel nut, is chewed as a stimulant across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific, usually with slaked lime in a quid.

Known aliases

areca nut
betel
betel nut

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

science4 publishers

Arecoline in ice-age teeth pushes habitual drug use back before farming on Sulawesi

A Griffith University team found the alkaloid arecoline in two sets of grooved prehistoric teeth from Sulawesi and showed that sucking a whole betel nut releases enough of it to act on human receptors, from a sample of two people.

Publishers:livescience.comnewscientist.comphys.orgsciencedaily.com

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Operator: Operator 36%
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Reality

Evidence62
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+24
Incentives58
Confidence63