I knew I should have deep fried that Thanksgiving turkey in sunflower oil. Then I would have been lowering my cholesterol while chowing down. I wonder if you can use it as a dipping oil for bread with a little balsamic vinegar. Something to check on. Anyway, the American Dietetic Association has certainly made sunflower growers and seed companies happy. You can read more about it on the National Sunflower Association website.

BTW, the Mycogen Seeds sunflower lineup has five new NuSun hybrids for growers that are available for the 2006 growing season.

Sunflower growers have one more reason to be excited about growing NuSun™ sunflower hybrids from Mycogen Seeds, a retail seed company of Dow AgroSciences. Diets with NuSun sunflower oil have been demonstrated to lower cholesterol, according to a recent Penn State University health study published in the July 2005 Journal of the American Dietetic Association. “We have known about and believed in the benefits of NuSun oil for some time,” says Larry Kleingartner, President, National Sunflower Association. “We are pleased that this research has now been published. This finding establishes that NuSun is a healthy, viable alternative to other types of oils.”