Description
- Smell: Strongly perfumed, with an aroma of honey
- Flavour: A pungent bitter-honey taste
- Coming from the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus, it takes 75,000 blossoms or 225,000 hand-picked stigmas to make a single pound which explains why it is the worlds most expensive spice.
Saffron contains plant-derived compounds known to have anti-oxidant, disease-preventing and health-promoting properties. Saffron threads have essential volatile oils but the most important is safranal ...