Saffron

Description

Saffron is famously known as the world's most expensive spice by weight, and its story is fascinating—spanning intensive agricultural labor, unique flavor chemistry, and thousands of years of culinary history. Often called 'Red Gold,' it has been prized for millennia as a culinary luxury, a royal dye, and a potent medicine. Saffron is not a seed, berry, or bark; it consists entirely of the dried, thread-like stigmas (the female pollen-capturing structures) found inside the purple Crocus sativus flower.