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How to Eat Sunflower

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Lynn Hetzler

Natives cultivated sunflowers in North America for centuries before Europeans arrived, according to Jill MacKenzie of the University of Minnesota. You can eat almost the entire sunflower plant and you can enjoy this nutritious food in all its stages of life: from supple seedling to mature and dry.