Saffron Price

Saffron is worth more than its weight in gold. Its the cost of picking the saffron spices that makes it so valuable, the individual flowers of the female saffron crocus plant are hand picked, sorted and dried. The stigmas are them removed by hand. 200,000 stigmas to 1kg of saffron. At 3 stigmas a plant thats an awful lot of saffron bulbs. Each Saffron filament is one red stigma from the flower of the Crocus Sativa plant, and there are only 3 stigmas per flower.

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These flowers must first be hand picked, as a machine would badly damage the stigmas, and then the extremely delicate stigmas must be carefully pinched off by hand, taking care not to break them. You would need to repeat this process for over 75,500 Crocus Sativa flowers to get only 1 pound of saffron. It is the nature of the labour intensive hand method of preparing saffron spice that contributes to the high price when you come to buy saffron

Iranian Saffron