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Name | Sunflower | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scientific Name | Helianthus annuus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas. It possesses a large inflorescence (flowering head), and its name is derived from the flower's shape and image, which is often used to depict the sun. The plant has a rough, hairy stem, broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves and circular heads of flowers. The heads consist of many individual flowers which mature into seeds, often in the hundreds, on a receptacle base. From the Americas, sunflower seeds were brought to Europe in the 16th century, where, along with sunflower oil, they became a widespread cooking ingredient. Leaves of the sunflower can be used as cattle feed, while the stems contain a fibre which may be used in paper production. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary ID | FOOD00086 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Group | Herbs and Spices | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sub-Group | Oilseed crops | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kingdom | Viridiplantae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Phylum | Streptophyta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Class | Magnoliopsida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Order | Asterales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Family | Asteraceae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genus | Helianthus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Species | annuus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ITIS ID | 36616 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia ID | Sunflower | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content Reference | — Duke, James. 'Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. United States Department of Agriculture.' Agricultural Research Service, Accessed April 27 (2004). — Saxholt, E., et al. 'Danish food composition databank, revision 7.' Department of Nutrition, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (2008). — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page. — Rothwell JA, Pérez-Jiménez J, Neveu V, Medina-Ramon A, M'Hiri N, Garcia Lobato P, Manach C, Knox K, Eisner R, Wishart D, Scalbert A. (2013) Phenol-Explorer 3.0: a major update of the Phenol-Explorer database to incorporate data on the effects of food processing on polyphenol content. Database, 10.1093/database/bat070. — Shinbo, Y., et al. 'KNApSAcK: a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database.' Plant Metabolomics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 165-181. |