The most precious and expensive spice in the World, saffron threads are the dried stigmas of the Saffron Flower, Crocus Sativus Linneaus. Each Flower produces just 3 stigmas. These threads must be picked by hand, and approximately 170,000 of these flowers are needed to produce 1kg of Saffron filaments, thus making Saffron so costly.
We have 2 sizes available to buy online, 1g & 8g . If your requirements are larger than this please let us know and we will be happy to quote for any size you might need.
Sargol Saffron
The highest quality Iranian Saffron is known as "Sargol" (literally translated as "top of flower"). The equivalent Spanish name is "Coupe." Sargol contains only the pure red stigmas of the Saffron plant and therefore captures all of the aroma, flavour, and dye. The Sargol Saffron is cut and seperated from the style prior to the drying process. This enables it to retain its pure red colour resulting in a colouring index of 220 to 250. Our top grade Sargol Saffron has a colouring index of approximately 250
