What is a sunflower's main purpose?

Answer 1

Answer

The main purpose of a sunflower (Helianthus annuus):

• Home gardener: the sunflower provides a beautiful ornamental summer flower.
• Food: the seed is a healthy snack that keeps you satified longer.
• Cooking ingredient: the sunflower oil is a healthy alternative.
• Spirituality: the full bloom plant is a symbol of God, happiness, wisdom and goodness.

Answer 2

There are many products that come directly from sunflowers.

Some of these include:

• Raw or roasted sunflower whole seed as a snack food with or without seasoning
• Butter - similar to peanut butter, it is called sunflower butter
• German sunflower whole seed breaed
• Bird food - either alone or in combination with other seeds
• Shelled seeds can be used in salads.
• Sunflower oil is used in cooking, margrine, biodiesel and other products
• Native American uses: bread, medical ointments, dyes, body paint
• "Cake" left over from oil processing is fed to livestock
• Ornamental plants for home gardens use also to attract seed-loving birds
• Sunflowers produce latex - may be used to produce nonallergic rubber (gloves)
• They have been used in phytoermediation to extract harmful items from soil

Answer 3

the uses of sunflower can help us : with gas , food for chickens, they are used in soaps, and are even used for special kins of glue & paints.

Answer 4

the function of the seed is the same in all flowers and berries,to make more of that thing(flower or berrie ) .

Answer 5

They give us seeds.

They also are special with there "sun" shaped flower part.

Answer 6

they give us seeds

Answer 7

petal function of a sunflower