Why are sunflower seeds roasted in cottonseed oil?!
Answers: Don't they know about sunflower oil? You don't fry bacon in sheep lard.
Roasting sunflower seeds in sunflower oil. It sounds cannibalistic.
The real reason is that cottonseed oil is cheap.
I'm not really sure. Perhaps cottonseed yields more oil than sunflower oil so it's cheaper?
Either way, I don't use sunflower or cottonseed oil. They weren't grown as a food crop, so they have insecticides and chemicals in them. I use olive, peanut, corn, or canola oil.
Sunflower seeds are roasted in cottonseed oil because cottonseed oil is cheap, cheap stuff, basically a by-product of cotton-making.
Sometimes you find peanuts that are not roasted in peanut oil either--same difference--the manufacturer found something cheaper to use.
That's funny! But it might be that cottonseed oil is healthier. I'm not sure.
It's just another part of the conspiracy!