How to understand the real vs fake saffron? 2023
Understanding the real vs Fake saffron is a question that most people face when buying saffron. In this post, I will deeply explain each aspect of saffron quality and methods on differentiating real vs fake saffron.
Fake saffron is mostly adulterants and foreign materials that are colored with red food coloring and sold as real saffron. The fake saffron has no flavor and have a metallic taste like chemicals. Fake saffron also smells like tobacco or chemical substances, it a sharp and unpleasant smell.
Most of the adulterants are safflower, corn-silk, horse hair and dried beef dyed with food coloring.
On the other hand, real saffron has a pleasant and strong floral smell, with a honeyed earthy taste. It has a mixed of sweet and bitter taste. It is an enjoyable essence of flavor that you are looking in saffron.
Saffron Thread mostly goes as saffron spice is the stigma of autumn crocus flower. Each flower of the crocus Sativus plant only three to five stigmas at a time. On average, it takes 150,000 flowers to product 1 kilo gram (two pounds) of saffron spice. To make it easier, for your 3-person paella dish, that pinch of saffron, roughly 25-ish stigma came from 8 different flowers of crocus.
Saffron and its flower are used in food and many other applications. Saffron is a cultural integral part of Greeks, Afghans, Spanish, Latinos, French, Persians, Arabs, Asian and many other cultures and heritages around the world. Not only saffron is used in food, but also it has an extensive usage for ailments including asthma, depression, cough, heartburn, insomnia, cardio-vascular, Alzheimer’s disease, and dry skins.
Some cultures use saffron extracts as perfume, hair-dye, cloth-dye, and sprays for food.
In this video we will show you how spot the fake saffron. It will show you the taste, color and smell of real vs fake saffron.
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What is Heray Spice?
Heray Spice is a farmers co-op based in Chicago, IL and Herat Afghanistan. Our mission is to support local Afghanistan farmers by importing their saffron to the US and international markets and paying them fair-trade value for their spices. Also, helping chefs and home-cooks with high quality Afghani saffron.