Bob's Red Mill Natural Raw Sunflower Seeds, 20-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4)

by Bob's Red Mill

• Case of four 20-ounce packages (80 total ounces)
• Made from 100% all-natural raw sunflower seeds
• An excellent source of protein, minerals, and Vitamin E
• Eat as a nutritious snack or mixed into baked goods
• Packaged in Milwaukie, Oregon

Product Description

About the Brand

Bob Moore's secret to life may just be "work hard and keep it simple." Living this philosophy, Bob literally puts his nose to the grindstone every day. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods is an Oregon-based company that utilizes simple, old-world technology to mill hundreds of all-natural whole grain products.

Bob's Red Mill is dedicated to the manufacturing of natural foods in the natural way. In their own words: "With all the sophisticated knowledge of recent times, no machinery has yet been developed that grinds grains into flour quite as well as our flint-hard quartz millstones quarried in France and used by discriminating millers since early Roman times."

"Our well-dressed (sharpened) sets of millstones turn the highest quality wheat into a finer, better baking bread flour than all the hammer mills, steel roller mills, steel buhr mills, or pulverizers ever built! These slow turning millstones grind the bran, endosperm, and germ (containing its nutritious wheat germ oil) into flour in a cool natural way, creating a more assimilable food."

Bob's Red Mill stone grinds all common and most uncommon grains into flours and meals on its over 100-year-old mills. They mix them into an astounding array of unique cereals, pancake and waffle mixes, machine and hand-made bread mixes, quick bread mixes, gluten-free mixes, and specialty grain products.

Product Description

Bob's Red Mill Sunflower Seeds are delicious as a high protein snack as an addition to bread, cakes, cookies and muffins. They are also a crunchy substitute for bacon bits and croutons on cooked vegetables and salads. All natural. Bob's Red Mill is the most unique flour mill in the Northwest. We use century old stone grinding equipment to freshly mill whole grain products. Delight your family with whole grain goodness.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000ED9L6C
• UPC: 039978024428
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #368 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #1 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Snack Foods > Nuts & Seeds > Sunflower Seeds

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

68 of 79 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Seemed great initially, but really isn't. December 2, 2010

By Ghost(Ghost(M))

Amazon Verified Purchase

Initialy I rated this product five stars (but read the rest of the review). (Moreover, I then gave it three stars, but, regrettably, even that was too much, as I eventually discovered.)

I just got the second shipment of this stuff -- it seems great (so far: and I'll update this review if I have anything new to say, good OR bad). Both times it came very fast, packaged well (in a cardboard box holding four plastic bags, each holding over half a kilo of these seeds). The quality seems very good, good taste.

I add these seeds to oatmeal, and actually, just eat them straight quite a bit: I just walk around with a bag in one hand and a spoon in the other :-) . Unlike flax seeds (which are nothing special), sunflower seeds are really tasty, so I have to stop myself from finishing off a whole bag in one sitting.

I used to buy them in our store here, but those are salted and fried, so I figured one day, I get a ton of salt every time I gorge on those seeds, so I googled for unprocessed seeds, and lo and behold, Amazon has them (at a better price too). I've never bought food here, but this turned out to be a very easy option, no-hassle quick delivery: one day you simply find your order on your porch... the stuff isn't easily perishable, so that works fine. I gotta say, as much as I detest Amazon's obvious love of fake five-star reviews from publishers' shills, when it comes to variety and order fulfillment, they're very good, addictive really.

I see some reviewers mention another supplier of these seends -- thanks for that; this is something to try in the future. For now all I can say, Red Bob's sunflower seeds seem (taste) pretty good to me. Supposedly they're very healthful, but even if it's all hype, they taste good enough to eat them just for that. And of course, if you don't like them raw, you can fry them yourself, w/o a lot of (or any) salt.

01/08/2011: I'm on my third refill now, and I'd like to issue a warning: a couple of packs contained real hard bits, something you could break your teeth on. Very rarely, but still. I fished one out to see what these thingies look like, but they're really undistinguishable from the normal seeds: same form, size, and colour. This taught me not to chomp too heavily... I'll get one more refill: if this is an isolated phenomenon, OK; but if not, I'll drop the brand. Otherwise all's good though, great stuff.

02/16/2011: Refill seems fine, no hard particles.

04/08/2011: I have to bring the stars down: every fourth or fifth bag has slivers of shells and small solid particles amongst the seeds. Shells, at least, can be picked out visually, but the solids are the same colour and size as the seeds (impossible to discern, though their shape is slightly different, more squarish) so there's a serious risk of chipping a tooth -- a bad bargain, imo. Mostly these seeds are good, but now and then there's a bad bag. Not sure how to deal with this... I like these seeds, but then I like my teeth too. Will probably give up this product.

05/25/2011: Yeah, I quit buying it. Hopefully I can find another brand that's not as dangerous for my teeth! :-) I'm buying a number of products from this "Red Bob" outfit, and I'm happy with them all except this one -- I think the company needs to concentrate on quality control (instead of jacking up the cost: I just noticed when posting this that the stuff went up quite a bit, like fifty percent -- dear maker, as it is, it's not good at any price if you value your teeth. And btw, loose sunflower seeds, unprocessed, are available in stores, for example at Wegmann's for three-ninety-nine a pound, Whole Foods for two-ninety-nine a pound, and Trader Joe's for the amazing buck-forty-nine a pound -- and you don't have to get five pounds to get this price.. be watchful about prices, always: observing this site I see many items go up by the mind-blowing thirty-to-fifty percent overnight... somehow my salary doesn't go up like that, 'specially in the midst of a recession, um, sorry I forgot it ended two years ago, purportedly).

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Really FRESH RAW sunflower seeds! October 1, 2009

By Getitright TOP 1000 REVIEWER

Amazon Verified Purchase

You can trust Bob's Red Mill products, and these raw, natural, sunflower seeds are a good example! We keep them frozen and use them all year, taking out what we need. At the end of a year or two, they are still as fresh and tasty as the day we got them. Highly recommended!

29 of 33 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Organic is better September 17, 2009

By Michael Leeson

Bob's Red Mill Natural Raw Sunflower seeds are less expensive than Sunridge Farms Organic Sunflower Seeds -- the brand I previously bought -- but I judge the freshness, wholeness, and tastiness of the seeds to be less than Sunridge. If you're cooking with the seeds or grinding them, Bob's product is fine. If you're eating the seeds out of the bag, I'd spend the extra bucks and go with Sunridge. Amazon delivered the goods on time and in good condition.