Sunflower seed

Sunflowerseed is the basic oilseed crop in the Soviet Union.

The Government has encouraged a shift of some area, traditionally planted with cotton, to other crops such as sesameseeds, soybeans, peanuts, and sunflowerseeds.

The platelet eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) more than doubled in the group taking flaxseed oil (P < 0.05) but was unchanged in the sunflowerseed group.

Traders and buyers typically consider soybean prices in relation to the prices of other oilseeds or edible oils, particularly sunflowerseed and rapeseed, as these can be effective substitutes. Sunflowerseed oil typically trades at a premium to soybean oil, but the position can be reversed depending on availability.

Vegetable oils and animal fats / Includes soyabean oil, groundnut oil, sunflowerseed oil, rape and mustard oil, cottonseed oil, palmkernel oil, palm oil, coconut oil, sesameseed oil, olive oil, maize germ oil, other oilcrops oil, butter, ghee, cream, raw animal fats, body oil (fish) and liver oil (fish).