Saffron Flower

Saffron Flower

SAFFRON is the name given to the three dried red colored stigmas and part of the white style to which they are attached of crocus.
Sativus Linnaeus, flowers just once a year.

The main characteristics of saffron are:
PICROCROCINE (BITTERNESS) , SAFRANAL (FLAVOR ) , CROCINE (COLOR).

Saffron is a valuable spice with origins in the Zagros Mountains area in iran.

Saffron is the world’s most expensive spice because of its unique properties and because of all the labor that goes into producing it (more than 170,000 flowers make just one kilogram).

Now, You know that why saffron is very expensice.