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Safflower
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Safflower is a common food plant; its oil and petals are safe to eat and widely used in cooking.
Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) is a flowering plant whose seeds are pressed for cooking oil and whose petals are used as a spice, dye, or tea. It's a conventional food ingredient with a long history of use and no meaningful safety concerns at normal dietary amounts.
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Why it matters
Safflower is a plant, not a synthetic additive. Its seeds are pressed into safflower oil, a common cooking and salad oil high in unsaturated fats. Its dried petals are sometimes used as a cheaper substitute for saffron in cooking, for herbal teas, or as a natural yellow-orange dye. In the body, safflower oil behaves like other vegetable oils: it's digested and used for energy, and its unsaturated fat profile is generally considered neutral-to-favourable compared to saturated fats. Most people never need to think twice about it.
Fuentes (1)
- 1.PubChem - Safflower Oil
