Benefit of Sunflower Seeds

IndaMerit-Amun

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Sunflower seeds
Looking for a health-promoting snack? Enjoy a handful of mild nutty tasting sunflower seeds with their firm but tender texture to take care of your hunger and get a wealth of nutrition at the same time. Sunflower seeds are available at your local market throughout the year.

Sunflower seeds are the gift of the beautiful sunflower that has rays of petals emanating from its bright yellow, seed-studded center. The flower produces grayish-green or black seeds encased in tear-dropped shaped gray or black shells that oftentimes feature black and white stripes. Since these seeds have a very high oil content, they are one of the main sources of polyunsaturated oil.

Sunflower seeds contain vitamin E, B1, manganese, copper, tryptophan, selenium, phosphorus, vit.B5, folate.

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12/5/061:26 PM

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Sue 1Member

Thank you for this topic.

Sunflower seeds are the best whole-food source of Vitamin E. They provide an ideal heart-healthy profile, are high in protein, and naturally low in carbohydrate.

12/5/061:30 PM

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Vicky2Member

Thank you everyone for this topic.
Enjoy sunflowers and the seeds.

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Vicky

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IndaMerit-Amun

Thank you for your replies girls.

Sprinkle the seeds on your breakfast cereal of soaked oats and diced fruits.

Enhance a salad with a touch of crunch from a handful or two of sunflower seeds.

Add a handful to a fruit smoothie for added nutrition.

Garnish a raw soup with a sprinkle of sunflower seeds over the top just before serving.

Add them to your homemade trail mix of raw nuts, seeds, and diced dried fruits.

Enjoy sunflowers for their beauty.

12/7/065:43 PM

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yokoMember

Thank you for the interesting post

Sunflower "whole seed" (fruit) is sold as snacks and can be processed into a delicious peanut butter alternative, Sun Butter, especially in China, the United States, the Middle East and Europe. It is also sold as food for birds and can be used directly in cooking and salads.

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TeoAvatar State

quote:
from:
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2001-02/982689431.Bt.r.html

Re: Why and how the sunflower can follow the movement of the sun?

This type of response is known as solar tracking and occurs in sunflower as well as many other types of plants. It does not have to involve the flower; in many types of plants the leaves are involved. Solar tracking is a type of tropism. Tropisms are responses plants have to an environmental signal.

The response depends upon the direction of the stimulus. The orientation of the sunflower to the sun is a direct result of the direction of light. The actual movement of the flower occurs as a result of motor cells in a structure called the pulvinus. The pulvinus is a region that is located where the flower head is connected to the stem. The motor cells get bigger
or smaller depending on how much water they absorb or lose. Potassium is involved in all this. If the motor cell has a lot of potassium more water will go into the cell and the cell will inflate. With less potassium, the cell loses water and deflates. Which cells inflate and deflate causes the flower head to move as the sun moves. At night when the sun sets the flower head will move and face the direction the sun should rise in the next morning. This happens because of the amount of water contained in the motor cells of the pulvinus.

Source
Salisbury and Ross. 1992. Plant Physiology, 4th edition. Wadsworth

OK, basically, the Sunflower magically follows the sun.