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title: Is Safflower Oil GMO?
description: "Answering the big question of the natural food industry: is safflower oil GMO or non-GMO?  Plus information on how safflower oil is made."
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# [Is Safflower Oil GMO?](https://www.centrafoods.com/blog/is-safflower-oil-gmo)

 Written by [Hannah Broaddus](https://www.centrafoods.com/blog/author/hannah-broaddus) | December 16, 2014

Safflower oil is being used more and more in food manufacturing in recent years. Many natural products are being made with safflower and/or sunflower oil.

As a result, many consumers are asking the question: **Is safflower oil GMO or non-GMO?**

Good question. We’d like to help answer it for you.

## The Short Answer

Safflower Oil is naturally non-GMO. So you don’t have to worry about finding a non-GMO alternative safflower oil (like how you would search for a non-GMO canola oil). All safflower oil is naturally non-GMO to begin with.

## The Long Answer

Safflower Oil is made from the safflower plant (Carthamus tinctorius L.) a prickly branched thistle that grows in dry climates. This plant has tall stems with bright yellow, orange and red flowers at the end. Inside each of these flowers is 15-20 small seeds, which is what is pressed to produce oil.

This is one very prickly thistle, apparently. One farmer put it to me like this, as I was regally gazing out into his safflower fields, “Go take a run through that with your pants off. You won’t come out happy”. Duly noted sir.

Curious what other oils are naturally non-GMO? Here’s a look at the [“industry standards” for each type of oil](https://www.centrafoods.com/blog/4-bulk-oils-that-are-unpretentiously-non-gmo-and-3-that-arent). You can see which you can buy and be GMO free, and which you’ll need to find specially labeled as the non-GMO version.

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