Sunflower seeds are not only tasty to snack on and toss into salads, but they are healthy for you too. Sunflower seeds contain a wide variety of nutrients that can help support the immune system and body while also keeping the nervous system calm and strong. The nutrients in sunflower seeds can even help improve brittle fingernails, weak hair and poor skin.
What Are Sunflower Seeds?
Sunflower seeds come from sunflowers. Each sunflower can produce over one thousand seeds at one time depending on the size of the sunflower. Each seed comes from the tiny flowers that make up one sunflower head. In order to see the sunflower seeds and harvest them you need to gently scrape away the little flowers from the center of the sunflower and expose the seeds. However, the seeds will not be black or grayish colored like the ones in the grocery store because they …