Its estimated that 14,000 stigmas are needed to produce about 25grammes of saffron or around 150,000 crocus flowers to get just one kilo of saffron, and that one kilo takes around 40 hours of manual labour.
Top quality Spanish saffron supplied directly from the best Spanish suppliers in the Mancha region. Saffron comes from the bright red/orange stigma of the purple saffron crocus crocus sativus which flowers in the autumn, each flower producing three stigmas that need hand picking out of the flower. They are then processed by drying and toasting slightly.
Top quality Spanish saffron from the best producers in the world, from the Mancha region in central Spain.