Saffron from La Mancha-exquisite aroma with a potent yellow orange color. Each saffron flower has three stigmas. At every harvest each of these stigma are painstakingly plucked from the flower. Imagine how many flowers need to be selected in order to accumulate 1 ounce of saffron. You can tell saffron filaments are high quality when they are totally red. Minimal traces of yellow should be seen on the stigma.