Farmers grow more than 50 million tons of sunflower seeds every year. The black ones end up in our bird feeders, as well as on our grocery store shelves as cooking oil. The striped ones mostly go ...

But we can all agree on one thing: The greater variety of birds, the better. Serve up black oil sunflower seeds, also called oilers, and you have a pretty good chance at a big payoff. Learn how to ...

Oh, why not? Shopping for black oil sunflower seed and a wild bird seed mix everybody would love, I spotted a bag of shelled peanuts for birds. Against my better judgment to not feed squirrels ...

Black oil sunflower seed or blends that are high in black oil sunflower seeds are excellent choices. They provide the nutrients birds need and attract a wide variety of birds. You can also put out ...

The seed with the most universal appeal to birds is the black oil sunflower seed. If you are new to bird feeding and want to get started, black oil sunflower seed is a good choice. It attracts the ...

They commonly contain various seed combinations. With their high meat-to-shell ratio, "black-oil sunflower seeds attract the greatest number of species," the Lab of Ornithology says. Others offer ...

Half the participants took 2.5 mL of black seed oil twice daily for 8 weeks, while the others took sunflower oil. At the end of the study, most of the participants who took the black seed oil ...