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Saffron Quality: The price of authenticity

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Saffron Quality: The price of authenticity

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Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world, commanding $20 for a single gram of premium grade Kashmiri or Spanish saffron, and easily $5000/kg in bulk. These precious deep red threads lend dishes a subtle but luxurious fragrance, flavor, and bright golden color. The high market value of this spice has made it a target for adulteration throughout the ages –reported in early Roman times by Pliny, and punishable by execution in Europe’s Middle Ages under the Safranschou code. Saffron threads are the dried stigmas of the Crocus sativus L. plant, a cultivar of the iris family.

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