Sunflower Seeds
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Sunflower Seeds 
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Details
Type
Source
Weight
1 kg
Storage
Satisfies
Sunflower seeds are food that satisfy hunger and Sunflower Seed need.
Production chain
Efficient Farmhouse plants 
Sunflower (Crop) and harvests 
Sunflower Seeds.
Behaviour
Sunflowers take 5 days to grow, and harvesting destroys them. Sunflowers will be harvested even if they are not selected for replanting. Alternatively builders can destroy sunflowers, but this will not yield any sunflower seeds.
Nutrition
Sunflower seeds increases Nutrition: Sunflower Seeds by 50, where most foods increase their Nutrition by 20. This means that despite the poor yields of the crop, you do not need a lot of sunflowers to satisfy all your population in this particular need.
However, their 
hunger satisfaction is the same than other foods, so sunflowers aren't optimal if you do not have enough food.
Trivia
- What we call a sunflower seed is actually the fruit of the sunflower — known botanically as an achene. The true seed is inside that shell (the hull).
- Sunflower seeds are loaded with vitamin E, magnesium, selenium, and healthy fats.
- Sunflower seeds contain phytosterols, plant compounds that help lower cholesterol.
- 30g of seeds has around 6 grams of protein — nearly as much as an egg
- A study (by researchers at University of Adelaide) for “space-salad” included sunflower seeds as one of the ingredients that could be grown in space (with an astronaut diet in mind).
Goods
Common
