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  • How is sunflower oil made?
  • Sunflower oils are cold-pressed. This method, which entails minimal processing, produces a light, flavourful oil suitable for some cooking needs. Sunflower oil manufacture involves cleaning the seeds, grinding them, pressing and extracting the crude oil from them, and further refining.
  • How much oil is produced from sunflower seeds?
  • For every 100 kg of seed, about 40 kg of oil, 35 kg of high-protein meal and 20-25 kg of by-products are produced. More than 90% of the sunflower seeds produced are processed into edible oil.
  • What products are made from sunflower seeds?
  • Sunflowers are used to make oil, meal and confectionary products. Oil and meal are processed from the same sunflower seed varieties. The seed variety used foe confectionary products has a lower percentage of oil.
  • How many tons of sunflower seed oil are there in the world?
  • The world supply of sunflower seed oil for 2008/2009 is estimated at 11.7 million tons (+18% compared with the previous marketing year). The 2008/2009 crop translates into record sunflower seed oil production (in contrast with a decline in soybean oil production).
  • What does sunflower oil look like?
  • The seed is usually black with white stripes and is larger than the seed cultivated for oil extraction; the hull is heavier and less firmly attached to the kernel, and its oil content rarely exceeds 35%. Sunflower oil is extracted mainly from oil-type sunflower seed varieties and hybrids.
  • What percentage of the world eats sunflower oil?
  • Sunflower oil accounts for 8% of the world consumption of vegetable oils, and 10% of global food consumption of vegetable oils. From 1999 to 2008, the world production of sunflower increased by 20%, whereas the production and consumption of sunflower oil increased by 25%, or 2.2 million tons per year.