The invention relates to a processing method for hawthorn flavor sunflower seeds. The processing method comprises the following steps: taking hawthorn and liquorice, heating to a boiled state after adding clear water, keeping the boiled state for a certain time and filtering to obtain material water; then adding salt, sodium cyclamate and saccharin sodium salt into the material water, stirring till the materials are completely dissolved, then adding sunflower seeds, heating to a boiled state, keeping the boiled state for a certain time and then sealing; taking out the sunflower seeds, placing the sunflower seeds into a drying oven to carry out drying after naturally cooling to the room temperature, then placing the sunflower seeds into a roller fry pan to further carry out drying and fragrance improvement, taking out the sunflower seeds after frying to the state that sunflower seeds are yellow, and finally, naturally cooling to the room temperature. According to the invention, hawthorn and liquorice which have medicinal and edible double values are added into the accessories, so that the prepared sunflower seeds have sweet and sour taste, and are moderate in sweetness and saltness and good in flavor; meanwhile, hawthorn has effects of promoting salivation, moistening, tonifying spleen and appetizing, and can promote salivary secretion when being eaten, so that the common problems of parched mouth and scorched tongue, which are generated when a customer eats the sunflower seeds, are solved; moreover, liquorice has effects of clearing heat and removing toxicity and has a great relieving effect on the problem of high probability of getting inflamed in the process of eating the sunflower seeds when being combined with the effects of promoting salivation and moistening of hawthorn.