TABLE 2.

Economic importance of sunflower

Area	Importance	References
Food	Blend of high linoleic and oleic sunflower oil with selected cold‐pressed oils Tocopherols and phytosterols containing antioxidants. Sunflower products as a source of proteins	de Figueiredo, Fernández, and Nolasco (2019) Farahmandfar et al. (2018)
Animal feed	Sunflower products fed to ruminants, birds, and fishes. Protein hydrolysis using proteases. Nutritional value of sunflower on livestock. Livestock feed formulation in South Africa	de Morais Oliveira et al. (2016)
Energy	Source of biofuel (biodiesel). Bioenergy generation. Premium and quality oil production	Azad, Rasul, Khan, Sharma, and Islam (2015)
Health	Health benefits of sunflower seeds. Health benefits of sunflower oil. Low cholesterol levels improving health. Antioxidant potentials of sunflower seeds.	Zoumpoulakis et al. (2017) Cheng et al. (2019)
Sustainability	Economic sustainability of sunflower production. Sunflower cultivation using organic fertilizer. Sustainable sunflower processing. Use of biofertilizer for food safety and security. For production on functional and improved seed varieties.	Amiri, Asgharipour, Campbell, and Armin (2019)
Industry	Production of edible oil with low cholesterol. Production of dyes, paints, surfactants. Formulation of nutritionally cheap livestock feeds	Lai et al. (2017) Martins et al. (2017)