You've probably heard someone call saffron "red gold," and maybe you wondered if that was just marketing hype. It's not. This tiny spice commands prices that make precious metals look like bargains.

Often called red gold, saffron is the most expensive spice in the world: A mere 2 grams of the highest quality costs nearly $60. With a floral aroma and fruity, earthy flavor, saffron is a delicate ...

The world’s most expensive plant, saffron, is as delicate as it is valuable. Each purple flower blooms for less than three ...

Saffron, the world’s most precious spice, is emerging from ancient tradition to modern clinical research as a promising natural agent for mood, memory, and metabolic health, though quality and safety ...

On the islands of Crete and Santorini, there are millenia-old frescoes depicting girls and monkeys harvesting flowers: saffron crocuses, whose scarlet stigmas, when plucked and dried, become that most ...

If there’s one spice I’m familiar with, it’s saffron. My family comes from Iran, which means that saffron was added to almost every food in our home, from rice to dessert. When I left home, I was ...