Saffron is undoubtedly the most expensive ... especially in dishes that want to add a citrus and exotic touch. Its high price, around US$60 per kilo, is due to its limited cultivation in remote ...

T he price of Saffron, the world's most expensive spice, has gone through the roof and is reportedly selling at as high as Rs 4.95 lakhs per kg. The prices of Indian saffron have gone up by over ...

And real saffron can cost you over $10,000 per kilogram. Sought after for thousands of years as a spice, a dye, and a medicine, you need over 150 flowers to make just 1 gram of saffron.

As The Food Programme explores in ‘Britain's Secret Saffron Story’, the red spice ... whose white caviar sold for about $34,500 per kilogram. My cod that’s steep! Now considered a luxury ...

And each flower has three red stigmas — that's the saffron. Ghalehgolabbehbahani: The yield of saffron is really low. You have to hire a lot of laborers to harvest 4 pounds of saffron per acre.