Sunflowers (Helianthus annus) are grown throughout   for production of seed for oil extraction. Sunflower  meal is produced with the oil extraction of the seeds.

 While the type of processing can influence the nutritive  quality of the meal produced, only one type of processing, pre-press solvent extraction, is essentially used .The number of different quality sunflower meals currently   available is related to the amount of hull retained in the  meal after processing