USDA ingredient referenceUpdated August 22, 2026

Unsalted dry-roasted sunflower kernels in 5 Feast-indexed USDA foods

Calories, portions and nutrition →Sunflower seeds, plain, unsalted

Within Feast’s 3,850-record USDA FNDDS reference corpus, “Unsalted dry-roasted sunflower kernels” appears as a formulation input in 5 finished-food records. Their calories and nutrients describe those complete foods, not the input label by itself. Use the catalog to choose the closest finished food and open its exact FoodData Central citation.

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Exact nutrition reference, complete food catalog and source methodology

For calories, macros, portions, and household measures, use Sunflower seeds, plain, unsalted, the exact cited complete FNDDS profile. This page answers the separate formulation question: where USDA lists input code 12037 across Feast’s reference corpus.

What the code means

One exact source label across 5 complete records.

Every occurrence collected here uses ingredient code 12037 and the source description “Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted, without salt.” The code is preserved exactly as it appears in the FNDDS input-food rows. It is not a FoodData Central FDC ID, so this page does not invent a standalone ingredient-record URL.

The strongest concentrations of linked records are currently Nuts and seeds (4), Yeast breads (1). These are category counts within Feast’s selected 3,850-record corpus. They do not estimate how often the ingredient is eaten, how common it is in recipes generally, or its prevalence across every FNDDS release.

Collection-level interpretation

Grounded ways to understand this source label

These summaries describe the linked FNDDS records in this exact corpus. They do not estimate consumer frequency, market share, or the composition of a meal. This is a very small set of 5 records: each observation can move the percentages, buckets, and interpolated quartiles substantially, so read the complete catalog rather than treating the summaries as stable population estimates.

Typical listed-weight range

75%–98.8%

The middle half of linked records spans 23.8 percentage points from the 25th to the 75th percentile. This is more resistant to a single extreme record than the full minimum-to-maximum range.

Largest linked category

Nuts and seeds

4 of 5 linked records (80%) sit in this USDA category. The remainder span 1 other category.

Most populated share band

60% to 100%

4 records (80%) fall in this band after repeated rows for code 12037 are combined within each food.

Most frequent eligible co-input

Salt, table

It appears alongside code 12037 in 3 linked records (60%). Co-occurrence describes database structure, not a required recipe.

Where USDA uses this input

Linked records by source-food category

Each record is counted once even if ingredient code 12037 appears on more than one input row inside that formulation. The category grouping describes the complete linked foods, not a culinary rule about the ingredient.

USDA survey-food categories

Source-formulation evidence

How the share of listed input weight changes

Repeated rows for code 12037 inside one food are combined before the percentage is calculated. The denominator is the sum of all positive-weight inputs listed for that USDA formulation.

All linked records, not just the extremes

Where the listed-weight shares fall

Each bar counts complete food records after repeated rows for ingredient code 12037 have been combined.

Under 1%0 records
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1% to under 5%0 records
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5% to under 15%1 record
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15% to under 30%0 records
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30% to under 60%0 records
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60% to 100%4 records
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The role changes by food type

Median listed share in the largest USDA categories

Category medians summarize source-formulation shares, not nutrient content or consumption frequency.

Listed-weight share distribution across the largest complete-food categories
Complete-food category	Records	Median	Middle 50%	Observed span
Nuts and seeds	4	97.1%	90.4%–99.1%	75%–100%

What the spread can tell you

In this collection, “Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted, without salt” ranges from 9.5% to 100% of listed source-input weight, with a median of 95.5%. That variation can help distinguish a food where the input is a small supporting component from a record where it makes up much more of the standardized source formulation.

The spread remains descriptive. It does not show uncertainty around a single recipe, and a high source-weight share does not automatically mean the food supplies more of any particular nutrient. To compare nutrients, use the complete linked records below.

Verified consumer reference

Household measures and per-100-gram nutrition for Sunflower seeds, plain, unsalted

The values here come from Sunflower seeds, plain, unsalted, the exact complete FNDDS food cited as USDA FoodData Central record 2707582. Household totals are calculated only from gram weights USDA lists for that same record.

They are not an average of this ingredient collection, and they do not transfer automatically to a different product, recipe, preparation, or portion.

A reviewed identity map connects source-input code 12037 to its unique sole-source FNDDS record.

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Nutrient span across the linked foods

Every value in this table describes an entire USDA survey-food record per 100 grams. The values are not the nutrient content of ingredient code 12037, and differences cannot be attributed to this one input.

Nutrient span across complete food records linked to this source ingredient code
Whole-record nutrient	Observed minimum	Middle 50%	Median	Observed maximum	Linked records
Caloriesper 100 g of the complete food	306 kcal	567–580 kcal	575 kcal	582 kcal	5
Proteinper 100 g of the complete food	11.2 g	18.4–19.3 g	19.1 g	22 g	5
Carbohydrateper 100 g of the complete food	21.7 g	23.8–25.9 g	24.1 g	48 g	5
Total fatper 100 g of the complete food	8.2 g	47.6–49.6 g	49.2 g	49.8 g	5
Dietary fiberper 100 g of the complete food	2.7 g	10–11 g	10.6 g	11.1 g	5
Sodiumper 100 g of the complete food	3 mg	7–512 mg	462 mg	612 mg	5

The minimum and maximum preserve the complete observed span. The median is the middle linked-record value, not a prediction for a meal and not an ingredient-specific nutrient estimate.

Complete linked catalog

All 5 Feast-indexed food records that list code 12037

This is the complete qualifying-corpus catalog, not a hand-picked sample. Search by food name or USDA category, then open a profile for household portions, Feast’s 21-nutrient panel, formulation details, and its exact FDC citation.

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5 records shown

Complete USDA food-record catalog linked to this source ingredient code
Linked USDA food record	USDA category	Formulation	Listed input weight	Weight share	Calories	Protein	Sodium	Citation
Bread, sunflower meal	Yeast breads	9 input rows	72 g	9.5%	306 kcal	11.2 g	512 mg	FDC 2707792 ↗
Mixed seeds	Nuts and seeds	2 input rows	75 g	75%	580 kcal	22 g	7 mg	FDC 2707589 ↗
Sunflower seeds, flavored	Nuts and seeds	3 input rows	97 g	95.5%	567 kcal	18.4 g	612 mg	FDC 2707584 ↗
Sunflower seeds, plain, salted	Nuts and seeds	2 input rows	100 g	98.8%	575 kcal	19.1 g	462 mg	FDC 2707583 ↗
Sunflower seeds, plain, unsalted	Nuts and seeds	Sole source	100 g	100%	582 kcal	19.3 g	3 mg	FDC 2707582 ↗

Decision support from the exact records on this page

Turn source data into a better next decision

These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 5 exact records behind Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted, without salt (USDA input 12037). Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.

Equal-weight result

Sunflower seeds, flavored is higher in sodium per 100 g

Sunflower seeds, flavored reports 612 mg versus 3 mg for Sunflower seeds, plain, unsalted: a 609 mg difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

These listed servings have equal weights

5 listed servings each weigh 28 g

The 5 records with a listed serving weight on this page each use 28 g. Their serving totals therefore compare equal weights, even if the household labels differ. Match the preparation and adjust the weight to the amount you eat.

Choose the record before reading the number

Sunflower seeds, flavored and Sunflower seeds, plain, salted are not interchangeable

The page keeps both records at the same 100 g denominator and makes Sodium wording (No matching controlled term in the source name versus salted) the explicit record-description contrast. It does not show that the wording difference caused a nutrient difference. Pick the description that matches the food in front of you rather than averaging away the distinction.

Inspect the underlying evidence

Contextual knowledge graph

Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted, without salt (USDA input 12037), each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

Best next guide for this exact record Sunflower seeds

Sunflower seeds, flavored and Sunflower seeds, plain, salted are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path Best next guide for this exact record Bread

Bread, sunflower meal is explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Sunflower seeds, flavored vs Sunflower seeds, plain, salted

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Sodium wording: No matching controlled term in the source name versus salted; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path Compare two records on this page Sunflower seeds, flavored vs Sunflower seeds, plain, unsalted

Both records appear in this page’s evidence set. The explicit record-description contrast is Sodium wording: No matching controlled term in the source name versus unsalted; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Sugars, granulated

USDA input 19335 appears in 2 of 5 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 3–12.5 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Beverages, water, tap, drinking

USDA input 14411 appears in 1 of 5 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 118.5–118.5 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path 4 context records in this source topic Nuts and seeds

Sunflower seeds, flavored and Mixed seeds belong to this USDA source-category collection. Its displayed ranges and complete exact-record catalog provide the peer set for a manual comparison; the destination does not preselect this page’s record.

Follow this evidence path

Method and provenance

How this ingredient-centered page was calculated

Feast begins with its pinned 3,850-record USDA FoodData Central Survey Foods reference corpus for FNDDS 2021–2023. Each exact food profile retains its FDC identifier, source-food description, nutrient values, household measures, and positive-weight input-food rows. This page groups those input rows by the exact ingredient code 12037; it does not merge similar-looking ingredient names or infer synonyms.

The distinct-record count deduplicates by FDC food record. When the same code is listed more than once inside one source formulation, its input weights are added before the listed-weight share is calculated. Category counts also count each food once. The 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile use the sorted one-share-per-food values with linear interpolation between adjacent ranks when a percentile falls between two records.

USDA’s current FNDDS documentation explains that many nutrient profiles are generated with calculation recipes designed to represent multiple variants, and that their input codes are not necessarily the exact ingredients in a retail product or an ingredient declaration. It also documents moisture and nutrient-retention adjustments. Feast therefore treats these rows as transparent source-calculation evidence—not as a reverse-engineered recipe.

The complete-food nutrient table uses each linked record’s available published per-100-gram values so the denominator remains consistent; its middle-50% ranges use the same interpolated percentile method. It is presented for record selection and comparison only. No nutrient value is reassigned to the ingredient, no causal effect is inferred, and no “healthy” score is manufactured from the collection.

How to apply the evidence to a meal

Use the ingredient as a discovery clue. Compare the linked record names, food categories, preparation wording, source formulation, and portion measures. If a close record exists, its complete profile can provide a defensible reference estimate. If the meal differs materially in cooking fat, sauce, ingredient ratios, or portion size, keep looking or use recipe weights, a package label, or an editable photo estimate instead.

These pages are educational source indexes. They do not provide medical advice, personalized nutrient targets, food-safety guidance, or a recipe. If a clinician has given you individualized dietary instructions, follow that guidance and use the most specific current source available for the food you actually consumed.