Result of safflower seeds cleaning
from impurities with color sorter

Safflower is a highly branched, herbaceous, thistle-like annual plant in the sunflower family Asteraceae. It is commercially cultivated for vegetable oil extracted from the seeds. Plants are 30 to 150 cm (12 to 59 in) tall with globular flower heads having yellow, orange, or red flowers.

Traditionally, the crop was grown for its seeds, and used for coloring and flavoring foods, in medicines, and making red (carthamin) and yellow dyes, especially before cheaper aniline dyes became available.

Safflower seeds produced by processing companies must fulfill following requirements:

• Markers Standards Humidity, %, not more than 13,0;
• Contaminants and oil impurities percentage (in general), %, not more than ……. 15,0;
• Including contaminants percentage, %, not more than 3;0;
• Infection with granary insects (except ticks) Prohibited.