The farmers selectively bred the plants until they almost doubled the oil content of the seeds. Today, sunflower oil is a food, a medicine, and a skin treatment.

Sunflower oil is extracted from the seeds of the sunflower plant. There are many varieties of sunflowers. Most sunflower oil comes from the common sunflower ( Helianthus annuus ).

Sunflower oil is made by pressing the seeds of the Helianthus annuus plant. It’s often touted as a healthy oil, as it contains unsaturated fats that may benefit heart health.

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Ultraprocessed foods now make up approximately 70% of the food supply in the U.S, with many prepared with seed oils — oils from the seeds of plants that contain high amounts of omega-6 fatty acids.

Black oil sunflower seeds are a staple of bird feeders around the world, but humans mainly snack on striped seeds. Find out ...

Researchers created burgers from sunflower flour that offer a tasty, nutritious, and eco-friendly meat alternative.

Every kind of birdseed will yield a plant, whether it is the black-oil sunflower or many others, including milo, safflower, sorghum and niger. Maureen Gilmer is a horticulturist.

An idled Cargill sunflower-oil plant in Ukraine has been taken over “by a small number of armed individuals whose intentions are not clear to us,” the Wayzata-based agribusiness confirmed Friday.