Argentina is a very important producer of sunflower and is one of the principal exporters worldwide.
We grow oilseeds, (linoleic and high oleic), and confectionary sunflower kernels. The confectionary type is different from the oil type used for oil extraction for being lower in oil content, which makes its digestion easier, and it also has bigger protein content.
Under a nutritional point of view sunflower seeds contents more than double iron than peanuts and are equal in its protein content, (about 24%). Regarding its fatty content, it has no cholesterol, and the poli-unsaturated fat that contains are essential fat that the body needs to metabolism the cholesterol.
Sunflowers require a shorter growing season and tolerate fall frosts better than soybeans or grain sorghum.
Sunflower seeds are harvested at the beginning of the Argentinean fall, which is spring time in the north hemisphere.
View our organic sunflower growing in the fields