America’s Love Affair With The Sunflower Seed

It’s Official! Sunflower seeds are America’s most popular Seed’s and Nuts snack food item, followed by pistachios and peanuts.

Ninety percent of the American population consumes sunflower seeds!

American consumers love Sunflower seeds and eat them because they are tasty and very fun to eat. When they buy sunflower seeds, freshness is their biggest concern. Snackers prefer big, long and artisan roasted sunflower seeds- exactly how Art’s Nuts delicious and one of a kind Tender Salted Sunflower Seeds are!!.

Sunflower seeds are most popular with people who enjoy outdoor activities and consumption typically peaks in the summer months. Most people eat sunflower seeds one at a time holding a single seed in their fingers. Baseball players eat sunflower seeds instead of chewing tobacco. Truckers enjoy eating sunflower seeds as a way to keep busy and alert during long periods of time spent driving. Outdoor enthusiasts and school kids are among the many groups of consumers who derive pleasure and nutrition from popping a handful of sunflower seeds into their mouths and “spit’n” seeds.

Prehistoric Indians in the present-day United States cultivated and consumed sunflower seeds many centuries ago. The seeds were ground into a fine meal or flour for cakes. Sunflowers are a native species to North America and were widely used by American Indians as an important, high-energy food source. Sunflower began as an important agronomic crop in the U.S. in the 1950’s, starting in North Dakota and Minnesota.

Art’s Nuts is the originator of the “Tender Salted” process, eliminating the ’salt burn’ often experienced after consuming roasted and salted snack food seeds and kernels. In the Artisan tradition, Art’s micro-batch roasts their Sunflower seeds and chooses only the plumpest, longest seeds for their one of a kind Tender Salted Sunflower Seeds and produce it one delicious batch at a time at their facility in Northern California. Try some today and Taste the Difference!

Read More at: The National Sunflower Association Website