Premium Saffron Strands - ATAR Sargol Saffron - New Harvest - Hand Picked at Source Raw Saffron Tips - 2 Gram

Really good Saffron. Used some in a paella at the weekend, really great taste

As this product doesn't have many reviews I wanted to write one that gives it justice. But please inform me if I am mistaken.I can assure you so far that this is the real deal. I've posted two pictures, one was take with the flash and the other isn't in case that makes a difference to people. As I know some people use the flash to make it look brighter and others don't like flash for the same reason. Third image shows the individual pieces, I just grabbed these from the top and placed them in the lid of the container, this image has the flash on. These photos were done on a smartphone camera so I apologise if they are not the best, I didn't have any charge left on my actual camera. Royal mail (2nd class) may have bashed them a little bit so some may not look entirely whole but I guess I can't really blame the seller or producer for this, and there's no way to prove they were not already like this before Royal Mail.UPDATE: Finally captured a photo (With flash enabled at close range) of the saffron in slightly warm milk. All the pieces are still red and this was over 30 minutes of soaking, and looks the same as the first time I done it. You will also notice on the image parts of the milk are a darker shade of yellow near the saffron so there was more to go after taking this photo. Some parts look faded but as you can see these parts are actually slightly under the milk, sometimes I push some of them down with my finger and they end up under the milk a little bit but I do this as some saffron sits on top of other saffron and not touching the milk at all so I give them a little push and it ends up trapping some parts underneath. The shadows and patterns on the milk is where the flash has reflected off the glass, in person it's a perfect yellow all over.UPDATE2: I've used this about 8 times now and it has made warm water or milk yellow all over with no loss of colour. Not a speck of fake saffron so far and I've used about 18 strands each time at a minimum to make Biryani.UPDATE3 (19/05/2019): Still using it and no signs of fake saffron yet. I just used it to dye rice yellow for a Tandoori Chicken recipe, and used it in boiling water. 1/8th teaspoon of this dyed 180g of rice.Just to clarify, my saffron came in a metal tin shown in the image and the lid says ATAR Saffron if anyone is curious.1. I've tasted it in my mouth straight from the tin and it DOESN'T taste sweet.2. The smell is like hay/honey (It is a strong smell), which I believe is supposed to be the smell. I've smelled my Greek honey and I definitely smell the similarities. (Just so you know, it's supposed to smell sweet but not taste sweet. And fake Saffron usually has no smell at all, or it may be weak if the real saffron is mixed with fake saffron)3. I placed about 15 -20 strands in milk for about 30 minutes to use for cooking a biryani, every piece was still red and DIDN'T lose their colour, it looked the same as I placed it in. I think it took about 20 minutes for a the golden hue to appear, I can't remember but this is supposed to be another sign of true saffron, fake saffron also Dyes yellow but it can be much faster as the fake stuff is only coated red.3.1 The milk also changed to the colour yellow, but keep in mind fakes can also colour the water, this is just extra information. (Sorry I forgot how much milk I put in, I just poured an amount that looked right).4. Pretty much all the threads I've looked at have held a trumpet shape as it's supposed to, as it's went through royal mail the other parts may have been bashed off in the delivery process.As for quality, from looking at others you may be able to get better quality, likely as you can with everything. I haven't bought Saffron much so i haven't been exposed to a lot of it and other people with more experience may need to chime in. But everything above seems to match up with the details and ways to detect real saffron.I can't post links on reviews (Amazon Guidelines ban it) but go on Google and search this without the quotation marks 'how to find fake saffron' essentially the first 5 results: (I've added spaces between dots)1. le. ac. uk (Fourth result this is the university of Leicester)2. indianfoodfreak (3rd result A random website, good info on it)3. cyrussaffron (2nd result Another good website with images)4. conflictfood (1st result Another random website)5. travelindiasmart (5th website Another website)

Not the strongest, but for that value of money, it is worth it

I bought this because I wanted to try something natural for my SAD symptoms (depression) this last winter and wasn't keen on trying St John's Wort with all the listed possible side effects and contraindications. I came across recommendations for saffron tea and decided to give it a go. I can honestly say, drinking this tea made so much difference! I steeped the saffron (about 10 stamens) in 500 ml of (not quite) boiling water for 10 minutes and then put this in a flask which I sipped throughout the day. The saffron turns the water a lovely yellow colour (see the other comments for photographs). I felt my mood pick up in a matter of days. I believe this, along with the use of my SAD light really made a difference. This is my experience and yours might be different, however, I have bought this for a friend (who has depression too) because I truly believe it helped me. I intend to start drinking it in the autumn again. I didn't feel the need to add milk or honey, preferring the subtle warming taste of the saffron by itself. The saffron comes in lovely little tins which you could re-use yourself, or, I believe the suppliers are looking into a return scheme. In any case, I intend to return them so they can be re-used again for more saffron. A lovely company to deal with too.

Very good value.Loved the wee tin it came in.Great taste.

The smell of saffron is great. Package is beautiful.

Saffron threads stick together when grinding

I’m not sure what a good quality Saffron should taste like but I’d say that the little strands looked very convincing and the colour it gave off was very nice too but it’s a bit pricey but then again Saffron is more expensive than gold weight by weight ! So there you have , altogether a good product, and if I win the lottery I’ll buy it again .