Aside from the beauty that we appreciate from them, they are also important to our diet and environment. Their benefits can be traced from its history as the American Indians use them for medicinal purposes. Today, there are a lot of uses sunflowers, we can use them for decorations, or we can eat their seeds and we can also use the oil extracted from them as an ingredient for our menu.
Sunflower Seeds as Snacks
Sunflower seeds are the fruits of sunflowers that we can use to produce other sunflower plants or we can eat them. Remember that we can’t eat the whole seed though. There are two parts of seeds, the hull and the kernel. The hull or the husk is the dry outer covering of a seed. The only edible part of the seed is the seed kernel or the inside part of the seed. The seeds can also be classified by their patterns. The outer covers of seeds with plain black color are called black oil sunflower seeds, whereas the striped seeds are usually used for food purposes and often, they are called confectionary sunflower seeds.
