Re: Black Oil Sunflower Seed for Sprouting

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NO, you won't want to use those for several reasons. Seed for animal feed is

stored far differently than food for human consumption, and is often invested

with vermin, larvae, or been around chemicals that you wouldn't want in your

diet. They also often " enrich " those seeds with vitamins for birds, and while

they are not likely harmful to humans, they probably aren't a good thing.

Often, the seed is very old too, been laying around possibly going rancid or

been exposed to rats, rodents, etc. I feel quite sure it even states on the bag

" not for human consumption " if you look. That said, there would be little harm

in planting them and growing your own sunflowers from them, although they may be

GMO seeds, so if that is a concern, you wouldn't want to.

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> Hi all... I've done a search through the forum here and couldn't find this

topic addressed...

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> I've been reading that a lot of people like sprouted sunflower seeds. I've

never tried them. I was in my local supermarket the other day and saw that they

had 10lb bags of Black Oil Sunflower seeds for birds for sale for around $5. It

made me wonder if we could use these for sprouting.

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> Would this seed be OK to sprout? I would suspect that if it was for birds,

that there wouldn't be anything wrong with sprouting them for ourselves.

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> Has anyone sprouted these or does anyone know if these can be sprouted and

eaten without us humans growing feathers?.. )

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> Just curious...

> Dennis

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