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Sunflower Oil Market

The market for Sunflower Oil was estimated at $23.6 billion in 2025; it is anticipated to increase to $31.2 billion by 2030, with projections indicating growth to around $41.4 billion by 2035.

Report ID:DS1901009
Author:Debadatta Patel - Senior Consultant
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Food & Beverage
Packaged & Processed F&B
Sunflower Oil
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Global Sunflower Oil Market Outlook

Revenue, 2025

$23.6B

Forecast, 2035

$41.4B

CAGR, 2026 - 2035

5.8%

The Sunflower Oil industry revenue is expected to be around $23.6 billion in 2026 and expected to showcase growth with 5.8% CAGR between 2026 and 2035. This robust outlook underscores the rising strategic importance of Sunflower Oil across global edible oil value chains, as manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice operators prioritize versatile, cost-effective, and healthier vegetable oil options. The Sunflower Oil market is benefiting from expanding packaged foods consumption, regulatory pressure to replace trans-fat-rich fats with unsaturated alternatives, and increasing preference among health-conscious consumers for cholesterol-free cooking oil with a favorable fatty acid profile. Demand is particularly strong in the food industry and HoReCa segment, which together account for 77.2% of end-use consumption, reflecting Sunflower Oil’s central role in frying, baking, and large-scale meal preparation. Despite periodic supply disruptions and price volatility, the Sunflower Oil industry continues to adapt through diversified sourcing, product innovation, and strategic partnerships, ensuring its ongoing relevance in both mature and emerging markets.

Sunflower Oil is a light, neutral-flavored vegetable oil derived from sunflower seeds, characterized by its high content of unsaturated fatty acids, natural vitamin E, and relatively high smoke point, which make it well suited to a wide range of culinary and industrial applications. Linoleic Sunflower Oil type currently dominates the Sunflower Oil industry, generating about $13.81 billion in sales in 2025 due to its extensive use as a household cooking oil and in large-scale food industry and HoReCa frying operations, while high oleic and refined Sunflower Oil grades are gaining traction for premium snacks, bakery fats, and long-life processed foods. Beyond food, the Sunflower Oil market serves cosmetics, personal care, and pharmaceutical formulations, where its emollient and oxidative stability properties are valued in creams, lotions, and nutraceuticals. Recent trends driving demand include the shift toward plant-based diets, stronger consumer interest in clean-label and sustainable sourcing, and the rollout of fortified and cold-pressed Sunflower Oil variants positioned as higher-value, health-oriented edible oil solutions

Sunflower Oil market outlook with forecast trends, drivers, opportunities, supply chain, and competition 2025-2035
Sunflower Oil Market Outlook

Market Key Insights

  • The Sunflower Oil market is projected to grow from $23.6 billion in 2025 to $41.4 billion in 2035. This represents a CAGR of 5.8%, reflecting rising demand across Food Industry, Personal Care, and Industrial Use.

  • Archer Daniels Midland Company, Bunge, and Cargill Incorporated are among the leading players in this market, shaping its competitive landscape.

  • Ukraine and Russia are the top markets within the Sunflower Oil market and are expected to observe the growth CAGR of 3.8% to 5.6% between 2025 and 2030.

  • Emerging markets including China, Brazil and South Africa are expected to observe highest growth with CAGR ranging between 6.7% to 8.0%.

  • Transition like Sustainability Initiatives has greater influence in Ukraine and Russia market's value chain; and is expected to add $660 million of additional value to Sunflower Oil industry revenue by 2030.

  • The Sunflower Oil market is set to add $17.9 billion between 2025 and 2035, with manufacturer targeting Horeca & Personal Care and Cosmetics Application projected to gain a larger market share.

  • With

    health benefits, and

    Growing Demand for Organic Products, Sunflower Oil market to expand 76% between 2025 and 2035.

sunflower oil market size with pie charts of major and emerging country share, CAGR, trends for 2025 and 2032
Sunflower Oil - Country Share Analysis

Opportunities in the Sunflower Oil

India’s fast-growing processed foods industry is also shifting from palm to Sunflower Oil to satisfy urban consumers seeking lighter textures and heart-healthy oil in chips and extruded snacks. Mid-oleic sunflower oil offers extended shelf life and neutral taste, positioning it as the most attractive option for large-scale snack manufacturing. Globally, mid-oleic revenues are forecast to rise from 5.82 to 8.01 billion dollars by 2030, a 6.6% CAGR, with India expected to capture an outsized share through long-term supply contracts and co-branding initiatives.

Growth Opportunities in Europe and Asia-Pacific

In Europe, the Sunflower Oil market is shaped by mature consumer preferences for healthier edible oil options, making the Food Industry the most influential end-use segment through its deep integration into bakery, snacks, ready meals, and branded cooking oil portfolios; top opportunities center on premium high-oleic sunflower oil, cold-pressed sunflower oil, and sustainably sourced vegetable oil positioned with traceability and low-saturated-fat claims, alongside tailored functional blends for plant-based and free-from product formulations. Competitive dynamics are characterized by a consolidated refining base, strong retailer private labels, and agile mid-sized regional processors that compete on quality, packaging innovation, and supply security rather than pure volume, prompting differentiation through origin storytelling, clean-label processing technologies, and fortified sunflower seed oil variants. Key regional drivers include regulatory pressure to reduce trans fats, consumer shifts toward heart-healthy oils, demand for recyclable and lightweight packaging in the cooking oil market, and food manufacturers’ need for reliable, de-risked supply chains that can navigate harvest volatility and logistics constraints, creating room for investment in logistics hubs, value-added packaging, and co-development partnerships with leading food brands and personal care formulators.
In Asia-Pacific, Sunflower Oil is increasingly positioned as an aspirational, light-tasting alternative within a price-sensitive edible oil landscape, with the Horeca sector emerging as the most strategically relevant end-use due to rapid expansion of quick-service restaurants, cloud kitchens, and organized catering that seek stable frying performance and healthier image attributes. Top opportunities lie in supplying bulk high-oleic sunflower oil and blended frying solutions to foodservice operators, introducing mid-sized packaging formats tailored to independent restaurants, and using digital channels to promote premium cold-pressed and fortified variants to urban households, while simultaneously opening specialized cosmetic-grade streams for local personal care and cosmetics brands. Competition remains fragmented, with numerous local bottlers and import-dependent traders facing margin pressure from cheaper oils, creating space for integrated players and strategic alliances with distributors that can secure long-term Horeca contracts, invest in market refining or packing, and build regional brands around purity, safety, and consistency. Principal regional drivers include rising disposable incomes, accelerated urbanization, policy initiatives discouraging trans fats, growing consumer awareness of cholesterol and cardiovascular health, and the expansion of modern retail and e-commerce, all of which support targeted investment in differentiated Sunflower Oil portfolios, localized marketing, and technical support services for both foodservice and beauty applications.

Market Dynamics and Supply Chain

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Driver: Health Benefits, and Industrial Applications

Sunflower oil is also valued for its content of healthy fats and vitamin E that support heart health. This has also led to its use, in both food and personal care items. Sunflower oils significance in energy and industrial sectors is also highlighted by its applications, in biodiesel and lubricants.
Consumers are also becoming more aware. Showing a preference, for natural products as seen in the growing popularity of organic and non GMO sunflower oil.
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Restraint: Climate Vulnerabilities, and Competition from Alternatives

The growth of sunflower crops is greatly influenced by weather conditions and is vulnerable, to the effects of climate change.
Competitors for sunflower oil include palm and soybean oils, in markets where costs a significant factor.
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Opportunity: High oleic Sunflower Oil for European quick-service restaurant frying applications and Organic cold pressed Sunflower Oil in North American natural skincare

Stringent nutrition regulations and delivery-driven menus are pushing European quick-service chains to adopt high oleic sunflower oil for stable deep-frying, replacing partially hydrogenated fats. This segment benefits from superior oxidative stability, longer fryer life, and positioning as a non-GMO, heart-friendly edible oil aligned with the broader edible oils market premiumisation trend. High-oleic Sunflower Oil, though currently the smallest segment at 3.94 billion dollars in 2025, is projected to reach 5.69 billion by 2030, achieving the fastest 7.64% CAGR in foodservice channels.
Natural beauty brands in North America are increasingly replacing mineral oils with organic, cold pressed Sunflower Oil as a vitamin E-rich emollient in facial oils, balms, and baby-care products. Linoleic variants dominate volumes, with global revenues expected to rise from 13.81 to 17.54 billion dollars by 2030 at 4.9% CAGR, but the fastest value growth will stem from premium, certified-organic formulations. Brands prioritising clean label positioning, traceable sourcing, and dermatologist-tested claims can unlock higher margins through direct-to-consumer and specialty retail partnerships.
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Challenge: Price Volatility

Supply and demand dynamics cause fluctuations, in raw material costs that impact pricing and profitability significantly for smaller producers.

Supply Chain Landscape

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Sunflower Seed Cultivation

Bunge Ltd.Cargill IncorporatedKernel Holding S.A
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Sunflower Oil Processing

Archer Daniels Midland CompanyWilmar International Ltd. Bunge Ltd
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Edible Oil Packaging

Cargill IncorporatedWilmar International Ltd.Archer Daniels Midland Company
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Cooking Oil Applications

Food ProcessingCosmetics & Personal CareBiofuel Production
Sunflower Oil - Supply Chain

Use Cases of Sunflower Oil in Food Industry & Industrial Use

Food Industry : Sunflower oil is commonly used in cooking. Baking as well as for frying because of its mild flavor and health advantages it offers to consumers concerned about their well being. Top corporations, like Bunge Limited and Cargill prioritize the production of organic sunflower oil to meet the demands of health conscious individuals.
Personal Care : Sunflower oils moisturizing and antioxidant qualities make it a popular ingredient in skincare and haircare products used by known brands such, as LOreal and Johnson & Johnson that are now including sustainably sourced sunflower oil in their product offerings to attract environmentally conscious consumers.
Industrial Use : Sunflower oil is used in making biodiesel and as a lubricant for industries with ADM and AAK AB implementing methods to enhance productivity and eco friendliness, in producing industrial grade oil.

Recent Developments

The industrys emphasis on health and sustainability is evident in the developments, like Bunges introduction of organic products and ADMs high quality cold extracted oils.

October 2024 : Bunge Limited introduced a line of organic sunflower oil specially designed for health conscious individuals.
March 2024 : Recently Cargill enhanced its refining facilities for sunflower oil, in Eastern Europe with the goal of increasing production.
January 2024 : ADM launched a line of high quality cold pressed sunflower oil specifically designed for gourmet culinary purposes.

Impact of Industry Transitions on the Sunflower Oil Market

As a core segment of the Packaged & Processed F&B industry, the Sunflower Oil market develops in line with broader industry shifts. Over recent years, transitions such as Sustainability Initiatives and Value-Added Products have redefined priorities across the Packaged & Processed F&B sector, influencing how the Sunflower Oil market evolves in terms of demand, applications and competitive dynamics. These transitions highlight the structural changes shaping long-term growth opportunities.
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Sustainability Initiatives

Sustainability initiatives are evolving from peripheral commitments to core value drivers in the Sunflower Oil market, particularly across Ukraine and Russia, where eco-friendly farming and cleaner processing are reshaping the industry value chain. By embedding sustainable agriculture practices, carbon footprint reduction, and improved traceability into large-scale sunflower production, leading producers are positioned to unlock an estimated $660 million in additional Sunflower Oil industry revenue by 2030. This transition supports differentiation in the global edible oils market, enables premium pricing for cold-pressed and non-GMO sunflower oil, and strengthens supply chain resilience amid tightening regulatory and consumer expectations. As sustainability becomes a decisive purchasing and compliance criterion, early movers in regenerative agriculture and green processing standards will capture disproportionate strategic advantage and market share growth.
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Value-Added Products

Innovative products such as flavored oils and high quality sunflower oils are enhancing customer interaction. Broadening the range of products available, in the market.