Vitamin E is essential to human being and animal. Primary evaluation of 20 sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) seeds was carried out with the characters of vitamin E content, oil content, hull content and 100-seed weight. The results showed that vitamin E content of oil sunflower was significantly higher than that of confectionary sunflower. Vitamin E was correlated with oil content positively at 0.01 levels. Oil content and hull content affected 100-seed weight with a significant negative correlation at 0.05 and 0.01 levels, respectively. Three valuable germplasm were selected for sunflower breeding to improve vitamin E content.