Saffron spice is made by collecting the stigmas, also called threads, of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), drying them, ...

Rumi Spice Rumi Spice co-founder Keith Alaniz with Afghan crocus farmers Their company, Rumi Spice, buys saffron crocuses from local growers and employs 380 Afghan women to do the painstaking work ...

Narrator: Saffron comes from the saffron crocus flower. And each flower has three red stigmas — that's the saffron. Ghalehgolabbehbahani: The yield of saffron is really low. You have to hire a ...

As well as a spectacular location, Pampore is India's centre for saffron - a spice so valuable that it is sometimes called red gold. Derived from the crocus plant, saffron fetches around $1,500 ...

Saffron, a spice derived from the Crocus sativus flower indigenous to Southwest Asia, has been an essential ingredient in our cooking and traditional medicines for centuries. It is celebrated for ...

Among these is Saffron, an essence extracted from the Crocus sativus flower that has been an integral part of traditional medicine for generations. This natural solution is used to manage an array ...

This spice is definitely costly, but for very good reason. It has a taste like nothing else out there, and for fans of the ...

So just what makes this spice so expensive? Saffron is the red stigma of the Crocus sativus. Each crocus has three small stigmas that have to be picked carefully by hand. This minuscule harvest ...