The present invention relates to apple flavor sunflower seeds and a processing method thereof, and belongs to the field of agricultural and sideline product processing, wherein the raw material components during the processing comprise 500 g of sunflower seeds, 80-100 g of an apple concentration juice, 25-30 g of salt, 10-15 g of monosodium glutamate, 5-10 g of sodium N-cyclohexylsulfamate, 20-30 g of illicium verum hook.f, 10-15 g of cinnamomum tamala, 20-30 g of zanthoxylum bungeanum maxim, 10-15 g of chicken essence seasoning, 5-10 g of licorice root, and 10-12 g of myristica fragrans houtt. The processing method comprises: washing sunflower seeds, placing into a pot, and adding water; adding edible salt, uniformly stirring, adding monosodium glutamate, sodium N-cyclohexylsulfamate and chicken essence seasoning; loading illicium verum hook.f, cinnamomum tamala, zanthoxylum bungeanum maxim, licorice root and myristica fragrans houtt into a gauze bag, sealing, and placing into the pot; boiling with strong fire, cooking for 15 min with small fire, turning off the fire, adding an apple concentration juice, and uniformly stirring; and naturally cooling, taking out the sunflower seeds after the water is completely cooled, and drying with a sunflower seed dryer so as to obtain the product. According to the present invention, the apple concentration juice is added during the sunflower seed frying process, such that the fried sunflower seeds have the apple taste, contain the partial apple nutrients, are easily digested and digested by human body, have refreshing taste, and are rich in nutritional value.