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Sunflower seed flour on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Sunflower seed flour is a kind of flour. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 120 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.

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Does sunflower seed flour contain an allergen?

Sunflower seed flour is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.

Is sunflower seed flour vegan?

Yes. Sunflower seed flour is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names does sunflower seed flour have on a label?

On European labels it is “farine de graines de tournesol” in French, “Sonnenblumenkernmehl” in German and “harina de semillas de girasol” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.

French
farine de graines de tournesol
German
Sonnenblumenkernmehl
Spanish
harina de semillas de girasol
Italian
farina di semi di girasole
Swedish
solrosfrömjöl
Finnish
auringonkukansiemenjauho
Croatian
brašno sjemenki suncokreta

Which foods contain sunflower seed flour?

Open Food Facts lists sunflower seed flour or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 120 products, most often biscuits and cakes, bread and sweets. Most of them are sold in Germany, the United States and France.

  • Biscuits and cakes21
  • Bread8
  • Sweets7
  • Savoury snacks6
  • Pasta, rice and flour6
  • Dressings and sauces4

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 61 · United States 24 · France 21 · United Kingdom 11.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sunflower seed flour turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is sunflower seed flour?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, sunflower seed flour sits under flour and sunflower seed.

Kinds of sunflower seed flourReduced-fat sunflower seed flour

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An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.

  1. Open Food Facts: Sunflower seed flour
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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