Adding saffron to your diet can be simple and effective for reaping its benefits. You can either use it as a spice in ...

Saffron is a pricy spice harvested from a fall-flowering crocus. Learn how to grow it to harvest your own saffron.

"It takes about 70,000 saffron flowers to make one pound of the saffron spice," says Ghaffer. "So much manual labor goes into making the saffron spice. This is why saffron is the most expensive ...

In 2022, scientists dated the earliest signs of saffron domestication to ca. 1700 BC during the Minoan civilization in Crete, although pigments made with a variety of crocus flowers have been ...

First, the tiny flowers are picked on hands and knees in the dark; saffron crocuses are best harvested before the sun rises and the flowers open. Then each stigma must be meticulously removed by hand.

Meraki Meadows has been producing saffron for two years. The spice, which comes from the crocus flower, can sell for a minimum of $9,000 a pound.

I recently learned about one of the most expensive spices in the world, saffron. Saffron is a spice that has to be hand ...

Its vibrant purple petals notwithstanding, the saffron flower (Crocus sativus) is valued primarily for what hides beneath those petals: tiny, fiery orange stamens that, once plucked and processed ...

Part of a sculpture by Calder, perhaps? No. This is the bright red stigma of the saffron flower, Crocus sativus. It takes roughly 170,000 flowers and their stigmas to produce one kilogram of saffron.

Kashmir’s saffron farmers are losing 30 percent of their crop to the rodents as deforestation pushes them into farms. A Kashmiri farming family pick saffron stigmas from the flowers at their ...