Relevance of creating a database of fatty acid composition and quality indicators of sunfl ower oil and seeds by varieties and regions of the Russian Federation .

Sunflower seeds are grown in 19 regions, territories, and republics of the country. The regions differ in climate and soil composition. As a result, typical sunflower oil differs from region to region depending on meteorological conditions. It is shown that the current GOST provides the fatty acid composition of the permissible values for the presence of a dominant fatty acid with intervals of 25.7; 15.7%; 28.7%. This is a sufficiently wide range to predict the same oxidative and different technological properties. Considering that sunflower is an object of international trade and domestic export, it seems an urgent task of expert examination and commodity science to create a Russian database of indicators of the composition and physical and chemical indicators of sunflower seeds grown in all Russian regions and sunflower oil produced by all oil-extracting enterprises of the country.