sunflowerseed

plural sunflowerseeds

1. nonstandarduncommonUncommon form of sunflower seed.

   Sunflowerseed is the basic oilseed crop in the Soviet Union.

   1979 August, Judith G. Goldich, Sunflowerseed in the USSR: Production, Processing, and Trade, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, page 1

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

   1992 August, Robert L. Tetrault, “Cotton Production in Mexico and Central America”, in World Agricultural Production, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, page 40

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

   1995 March, M. A. Allman, M. M. Pena, D. Pang, “Supplementation with flaxseed oil versus sunflowerseed oil in healthy young men consuming a low fat diet: effects on platelet composition and function”, in European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, volume 49, number 3, →PMID, pages 169–178

   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.

   2013, Caroline Bain, Guide to Commodities: Producers, Players and Prices, Markets, Consumers and Trends (The Economist), Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 223

   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).

   2014, Food and Nutrition in Numbers 2014, Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, →ISBN, page 244