In the West, sunflowers traditionally only eligible for the ornamental or nutritional value. However, further research and experiments discovered a surprisingly wide range of potential applications. In reality, sunflowers harvested for a variety of reasons for thousands of years. It is widely believed that American Indians sunflowers harvested long before they harvested grain.
While people from previous generations could not imagine the ways sunflowers would one day be used, they found their own uses for the plant. Their creativity and ingenuity imply that they understood the plant was out of the potential purposes that were merely decorative or diet. In this article we introduce a brief overview of how sunflowers are used today.
