Fact or fiction: Turkey makes you sleepy

  • Fact or fiction: Turkey makes you sleepy
Stillwater — When the last bite of turkey is consumed and the plates are cleared, the next item on the Thanksgiving agenda is a nap. Because turkey makes you sleepy, right? Darren Scott, food scientist at Oklahoma State University’s Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center, debunks this myth. “It’s not really the turkey which makes us sleepy,” Scott said. “It’s reputed to be the…

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