Saffron is a very precious spice that is famous around the
globe for its use in cooking, health, medicine, cosmetics and as a dye. Saffron
is the most expensive spice in the World and the reason for the high price of
saffron spice is due to its limited supply and its highly labor intense production
process involving hand planting of the saffron crocus bulbs followed by
watering the flowers throughout Spring and Summer and then the hand picking of
the saffron in October. You can buy saffron online in the UK, fine saffron spice made from saffron flowers.
The best place to go saffron shopping online is a trusted saffron online shop called Saffron Spices in the UK.
The best quality saffron in the world is from Iran produced by Saharkhiz saffron family on their organic farms est. 1932.
The saffron flowers are hand-picked as machinery would
destroy the fragile saffron filaments that are the stigma of the saffron
flower. Crews of pickers descend upon the saffron crocus fields before dawn to
pick the flowers before the sun is high in the day. The flowers are taken to be
sorted where the precious saffron stigma strands are removed from the rest of
the flower that is not of use. You can get pure saffron The saffron spice is dried to around 8% moisture
content then sealed in packs for sale. The lowest online saffron price of saffron varies from season
to season according to the kind of harvest that was enjoyed that particular
year. The best saffron price is to be found in a saffron online store, you can buy saffron at much lower saffron price than you will find in supermarkets (or
online websites of supermarkets) or delicatessens on the high street.
Saffron crocuses are
small purple flowers that are grown around the World most notably in Morocco,
Iran, Spain and Kashmir. The finest saffron spice in the World is grown in Iran
and comes in 3 cuts, these cuts are the all red tips called saffron sargol,
then the red/orange middle region of the filament which is pushal safron and
then the lowest portion of the saffron filament where it joins the flower is
the konga saffron which is the lowest cut and lowest quality. There are many saffron recipes that are very tasty to try. You can get the best
The middle cut
pushal saffron spice is the medium quality saffron spice and the highest
quality saffron is the sargol all red tips of the saffron filaments.
The all red saffron spice is most prized by chefs for its strength of flavor
for saffron cooking recipes. It is also most prized by pharmaceutical industry
for its highest level of active chemicals for use in beauty products and health
products. The all red pure saffron sargol is also most prized for use in
fashion and material fabrics industry where it is used as a red dye for
clothing and other items when of course the power. You can order saffron and get the best all red saffron delivered to your door by Royal Mail 1st Class delivery service.
