Health benefits of the sunflower kernel

Cereal Foods World

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 205-208

  Holliday, RoseAnna ^a   Phillips, Katherine ^b  

^a Nutrition Communications Consultant   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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