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grown on a large scale in Argentina, Russia and the Ukraine, sunflowers
are possibly the only major domesticated food crop to originate from temperate
North America, where wild sunflowers provided food, fuel and pigment for
centuries. Today the seeds provide protein-rich food, oil for cooking, margarine, racing-car engines and paint manufacture, as well as potential for fuel, medicines, cosmetics and plastic. The remaining seed meal feeds livestock, and the husks and stems can even be used to fuel the oil extraction. Information kindly provided by The Eden Project. Text copyright the Eden Project 2003 |
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