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Fats & oils

Sunflower oil

Sunflower oil is made by pressing sunflower seeds. Cooks use it raw.

  • Plant-based

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Fats & oils
Part used
Seed
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
Italy
Sunflower oil, packaged

Photo: Retired electrician · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use sunflower oil

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Raw

Cooking with it

Refined sunflower oil can be used for high-temperature cooking. Use unrefined sunflower oil in uncooked dishes or at low heat.

Nutrition

What 100 g of sunflower oil holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.
Nutrition per 100 g of sunflower oil
of which saturated9 g

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 171025, 1750349), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

On the table

Dishes made with sunflower oil

1 of the 2 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Zasypana kapusta

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include sunflower oil.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: sunflower oil in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: eggs, fish, milk, molluscs, sulphites, crustaceans.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Alcohol
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
sunflower seed (pressed)

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What sunflower oil is called

Names in 64 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    aceite de girasol · aceite de maravilla

  • French

    huile de tournesol

  • Italian

    olio di semi di girasole · olio di girasole

  • Portuguese

    óleo de girassol

  • German

    Sonnenblumenöl

  • Dutch

    zonnebloemolie

  • Greek

    ηλιέλαιο · Ηλιανθέλαιο

  • Turkish

    ayçiçek yağı · ayçiçeği yağı

  • Russian

    подсолнечное масло

  • Polish

    olej słonecznikowy · słonecznikowy olej · olej ze słonecznika

  • Arabic

    زيت زهرة الشمس · زيت دوار الشمس · زيت تباع الشمس · زيت عباد الشمس

  • Persian

    روغن آفتاب‌گردان · روغن آفتاب گردان · روغن افتاب‌گردان · روغن افتاب گردان

Show all 64 languages

  • Albanian

    vaji i lulediellit

  • Armenian

    արևածաղկի ձեթ

  • Azerbaijani

    günəbaxan yağı

  • Basque

    ekilore olio · ekilore-olio

  • Belarusian

    сланечнікавы алей

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    сланечнікавы алей

  • Bulgarian

    слънчогледово олио

  • Cantonese

    葵花籽油

  • Catalan

    oli de gira-sol

  • Central Kurdish

    ڕۆنی گوڵەبەڕۆژە

  • Chinese

    葵花油 · 葵花籽油

  • Croatian

    suncokretovo ulje

  • Czech

    slunečnicový olej

  • Danish

    solsikkeolie

  • Egyptian Arabic

    زيت عباد شمس

  • Esperanto

    sunflora oleo

  • Estonian

    päevalilleõli

  • Finnish

    auringonkukkaöljy

  • Galician

    aceite de xirasol

  • Georgian

    მზესუმზირის ზეთი

  • Hebrew

    שמן חמניות

  • Hungarian

    napraforgóolaj

  • Icelandic

    sólblómaolía

  • Indonesian

    minyak biji bunga matahari

  • Japanese

    ひまわり油 · ヒマワリ油 · サンフラワー油 · 向日葵の種

  • Javanese

    lenga kembang srengéngé

  • Kannada

    ಸೂರ್ಯಕಾಂತಿ ಎಣ್ಣೆ

  • Kazakh

    күнбағыс майы

  • Korean

    해바라기 기름

  • Latvian

    saulespuķu eļļa

  • Lithuanian

    saulėgrąžų aliejus

  • Macedonian

    сончогледово масло

  • Malay

    minyak bunga matahari

  • Marathi

    सूर्यफूल तेल

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    solsikkeolje

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    solsikkeolje · solvendelolje

  • Odia

    ସୂର୍ଯ୍ୟମୁଖୀ ତେଲ

  • Romanian

    ulei de floarea-soarelui

  • Sanskrit

    सूर्यकान्तितैलम्

  • Scottish Gaelic

    ola an neòinein-ghréine

  • Serbian

    сунцокретово уље

  • Serbian (Latin)

    suncokretovo ulje

  • Slovak

    slnečnicový olej

  • Slovenian

    sončnično olje

  • Swedish

    solrosolja · solrosfröolja

  • Tatar

    көнбагыш мае

  • Tatar (Cyrillic)

    көнбагыш мае

  • Telugu

    పొద్దుతిరుగుడు నూనె

  • Thai

    น้ำมันดอกทานตะวัน

  • Traditional Chinese

    葵花籽油 · 葵花油

  • Tswana

    Sunflower oil

  • Ukrainian

    соняшникова олія · олія соняшникова

  • Uzbek

    Kungaboqar moyi · Kungaboqar Moyi

  • Vietnamese

    dầu hướng dương

  • Yakut

    Подсолнечник арыыта

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q94787

Photos

Photo: Retired electrician · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons