Saffron

Listing ID #290623

We offer saffron. It is one of the oldest and certainly amongst the world's most expensive spices.
Saffron is unique among spices due to its aroma. It is water-soluble and when added to the dish, gives a pure and homogeneous color. In high dosage, saffron exhibits toxic qualities. However, due to its high price, saffron poisoning is very rare.
Often called 'The Golden Spice', saffron has a history rooted in antiquity. It has always held a very special place for its extraordinary medicinal and flavoring properties as well as for being a striking yellow dye. Indian saffron is cultivated on a large scale in the Jammu & Kashmir valley whose cool dry climate and rich soil with excellent drainage and organic content make the location an ideal thriving ground for this spice. By every standard, Indian saffron is considered superior to its foreign counterparts
SAFFRON `A Vegetable Gold' is unique product with a rich combination of its main constituents: Glycoside Crocine: has strong coloring capacity.
Glycoside Picrocrocine: gives bitter flavor and aromatic odour.
Different Essential Oils: important one being Safranal
Saffron has been widely used throughout the world due to its innumerable effect on the human body. Saffron is mainly used as a medicine, as a dye, as a spice, and as a perfume
Saffron with fascinating fragrance, pleasant flavour and beautiful colour is used in all the dishes of Pulao, Rice, Noodles, Biryani, curries, Vegetables, Chickens, Mutton, Fishes, Ice creams, Sweets, Bakery etc to make the dishes more tasty and digestive.
Product Specification :
Saffron is the three stigmas of the saffron crocus. They are delicate and thread-like, each measuring 2.5 - 4 cm (1 -1.5 in). Its colour is a bright orange-red, and in high quality saffron this is uniform. Saffron bearing white streaks or light patches is inferior and when light specks appear in its powdered form it suggests adulteration. Bouquet: Strongly perfumed, with an aroma of honey Flavour: A pungent bitter-honey taste Other Names Alicante Saffron, Autumn Crocus, Crocus, Gatinais Saffron, Hay Saffron Karcom, Stima Croci, Zaffer French: safran German: safron Italian: zafferano Spanish: azafran Indian: kesa, kesram, khesa, zafran.