Sunflower Meal

Sunflower meal is obtained by crushing its seeds for oil and oilcake which is further sent for extraction to obtain remaining oil and its meal. Sunflower seed is popular as bird seeds. But with the growth in consumption of sunflower oil, it is mainly crushed for obtaining edible oil so the production of meal too is good enough to create local and some international demand. Sunflower meal is widely used as protein material for animal feed. Meal contains about 30% crude protein with 30% fibre. It is superior to most vegetable proteins in digestibility. Sunflower seed extractions are widely used as protein material for animal feed. Indian sunflower seed extractions contain about 30% crude protein with 30% fibre. Although sunflower protein is low in lysine, methionime & cystine levels are favourable to meet poultry feed requirements. It is superior to most vegetable proteins in digestibility. Recent development of various enzyme preparations, which can act upon fibre in sunflower meal, making it more digestible, can result in an economical substitute for various protein sources. Thus it can be used at higher levels in the poultry feed. SUNFLOWER MEAL PROTEIN 28% MIN. MOISTURE 10% MAX. FIBER 30% MAX. S & S 2.5% MAX.