Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is saffron and just one pound of it can cost you $5,000. It is easily the world's most expensive spice. The next most expensive spice?

Saffron is known as "Red Gold" due to its distinct ... is what makes this spice so expensive. Each flower only produces three stigmas which need to be carefully handpicked and gently dried.

Saffron is one of the most expensive spices in the world—which, for this fragrance, comes from Greece. This is a crystalline take on the distinctly creamy and bright aroma, with musk ...

As The Food Programme explores in ‘Britain's Secret Saffron Story’, the red spice is one of the world’s most expensive ingredients – worth more per ounce than gold. But what other foods ...

What you do with it: Saffron is a flowering plant that can be used in natural remedies for everything from depression to menstrual cycles. Cost: $35 per gram or $1,000 per ounce. What you do with ...

And that small strand of saffron that you harvest as a result of all of this work? Well, to get the highest grades, you might need to throw half of it away. The most expensive, highest-grade ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is saffron and just one pound of it can cost you $5,000. It is easily the world's most expensive spice. The next most expensive spice?

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