Sunflower lecithin

Lécithine de tournesol

What it is

It is usually pressed rather than solvent-extracted, and its whole reason for sitting beside the soy grade is what it is not: no soy, no allergen to declare, and no bean note under a delicate infusion. Sunflower oil is degummed the same way soy oil is, so the lecithin is simply what the process settles out.

In the kitchen

Use it exactly as you would soy lecithin, 0.3 to 0.6 % of the liquid, but reach for it whenever the base is pale and quiet — a jasmine infusion, a yuzu juice, a clear consommé — where soy leaves a faint bean taste in the foam. It clumps in cold liquid, so disperse it in a little warm liquid first.

Goes with

Yuzu Lemon Elderflower Jasmine sambac Mandarin Lemon verbena Bergamot

Same species

Jerusalem artichoke Sunflower honey Sunflower oil Sunflower seed Sunflower shoots

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