{"id":7611,"date":"2022-03-02T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/?p=7611"},"modified":"2023-12-29T16:28:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T16:28:45","slug":"fun-facts-about-saffron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/health-and-wellness\/fun-facts-about-saffron\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Fun Facts about Saffron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You\u2019ve probably heard of saffron<\/a>. Maybe even cooked with it if you could afford it! This yellow spice has a strong, earthy, hay-like fragrance and is most commonly used in Indian, Persian, Arabic or Turkish foods, typically a rice or risotto dish. Beyond culinary use, saffron has a fascinating history. Here are 10 fun facts about this unique spice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

  1. The name saffron is derived from Arabic, \u201czafaran,\u201d meaning yellow.<\/li>
  2. Saffron is a spice that comes from the stigma (delicate threads) of the purple flowers from the Crocus sativus plant.<\/li>
  3. Each flower contains three stigmas that are laboriously handpicked and dried.<\/li>
  4. Since there are no machines to remove the stigmas from the flower, this detailed, strenuous job is often given to elderly women.<\/li>
  5. It takes about 70,000 crocus flowers to make just one pound of saffron spice.<\/li>
  6. Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world and can cost over $300 per ounce or more than $5,000 per pound.<\/li>
  7. Saffron has been used since ancient times when Romans bathed in saffron. It was even a cure for a hang-over.<\/li>
  8. Merchants would sometimes add substances to saffron to increase their profitability. This was a crime in the Middle Ages punished by being buried alive.<\/li>
  9. Historically saffron has been used in cooking, to dye clothes, as a perfume and herbal medicine.<\/li>
  10. Saffron health benefits include mood, libido and ability to fight free radicals.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n
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    These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Individual results may vary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    You\u2019ve probably heard of saffron. Maybe even cooked with it if you could afford it! This yellow spice has a strong, earthy, hay-like fragrance and is most commonly used in Indian, Persian, Arabic or Turkish foods, typically a rice or risotto dish. Beyond culinary use, saffron has a fascinating history. Here are 10 fun facts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7611"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8990,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions\/8990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}