Saffron stigma "La belle safraniere" - 10g

Saffron is an annual bulbous plant that belongs to the Iridaceae family. Nature's elite product, saffron is essential on condition that it is maintained in the primary purity of the 150,000 flowers estimated to be essential to gather, at harvest, one kilogram of saffron offered for consumption. The saffron harvest is carried out by the saffron farmers who delicately pull the stigmas and the style of the corolla of each flower. Saffron, “vegetable gold”, is composed of crocin, which gives it its strong coloring power, picrocrocin which gives it this characteristic aromatic flavor and essential oils including safranal with pharmacodynamic properties.