Saffron Phytochemistry Saffron is a noteworthy medicinal and spicy plant because of its powerful odor and intensive natural yellow color. Phytochemical researches have revealed that the color is mainly due to the degraded carotenoid compounds, crocin (1) and crocetin (2) the flavor comes from the carotenoid oxidation products, mainly safranal (3) and the bitter […]
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Iranian Saffron Market
Iranian Saffron Market Iran is the largest producer and exporter of the most expensive Spices around the world.Today, this sort of Market from Iran is not working in a suitable situation which all supply chain members face difficult challenges and limitations. In fact, these problems put pressure in to the key players in this market: […]
Covid-19
Part of the measures taken to combat the Covid-19 Elahidoost Saffron network performs special health constructions to keep consumer health from Covid-19 which involve below steps: Monitor and Record 1)Employees first monitor and record their body temperature as they enter and leave the factory with digital thermometers, and this is because fever is one […]
Saffron history
Saffron History Iranians have played a major role in introducing saffron and the culture of planting and using it to ancient peoples and nations especially after Islam. Saffron has originated in Iran. The Persian name “Kurkum” has been transferred to other languages, and the Arabic name “Za’farān” has been spread among different nations by […]
Most expensive spice
Saffron is known as the most expensive spice in the world. Because the harvest of saffron fields is done completely manually, which requires a lot of human resources and spending a lot of time during a certain period. In this regard, it is worth mentioning that between 3 and 5 kg of saffron is harvested, […]
Types of saffron
Saffron Types The Bunch (or Red & White) Saffron The bunch saffron is the main and most basic type of saffron, which is obtained by placing all parts of a saffron thread (including the stigma and style) besides each other and drying them. The style part is usually 3 to 5 mm. And depending on […]
Quality of saffron
Trustworthy Supplier is supplied based on international standards in and many tests are carried out to measure the quality of saffron. In order to cover all needs of its customers, our own networks produces and packages all of its saffron products based on the approval of the quality control unit in a fully sanitary area […]