Ingredient dictionary
Sunflower seed on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sunflower seed is a kind of seed. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 14,460 products, most often in bread. Per 100 g: about 638 kcal and 21 g protein.
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Does sunflower seed contain an allergen?
Sunflower seed 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 vegan?
Yes. Sunflower seed is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does sunflower seed have on a label?
In English sunflower seed can also read “sunflower seeds” or “sunflower kernels”. On European labels it is “graines de tournesol” in French, “Sonnenblumenkerne” in German and “semillas de girasol” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- graines de tournesol
- German
- Sonnenblumenkerne
- Spanish
- semillas de girasol, pipas de girasol
- Italian
- semi di girasole
- Dutch
- zonnebloempitten, zonnebloempit
- Portuguese
- Semente de girassol
- Polish
- nasiona słonecznika, ziarna słonecznika
- Swedish
- solrosfrön, solrosfrö
- Danish
- Solsikkekerner, solsikkefrø
- Norwegian
- solsikkefrø, solsikkekjerner
- Finnish
- auringonkukansiemen, auringonkukansiemenet
- Czech
- slunecnicová seminka, slunečnicová semínka
- Hungarian
- napraforgómag
- Romanian
- semințe de floarea soarelui
- Croatian
- sjemenke od suncokreta, sjemenke suncokret
- Turkish
- ayçiçeği çekirdeği, ayçiçek çekirdeği
Which foods contain sunflower seed?
Open Food Facts lists sunflower seed or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 14,460 products, most often bread, breakfast cereals and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 5,282 · France 3,090 · Germany 1,982 · United Kingdom 961.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sunflower seed turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in sunflower seed?
Sunflower seed has about 638 kcal per 100 g, with 21 g protein, 10 g carbohydrate and 56 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Sunflower seed” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 2.6 g, saturated fat 6.2 g, fibre 6.4 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 2,640 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 15011. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is sunflower seed?
Sunflower seed is a kind of seed.
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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.
- Open Food Facts: Sunflower seed
- Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
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