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Benefit Spice Saffron has been personally sourced for you in Herat, Afghanistan. Every tin of saffron from Benefit Spice has a donation built in 25% of your purchase price goes directly to Homestead Afghanistan, a 501c3 nonprofit focused on supporting Afghanistans farming families with food security, and training and jobs for Afghan women. Grade A Afghan Saffron in three variations: Negin, Super Negin, and the cream of the crop - Special Reserve. This Saffron has been selected for you from over 200 samples offered by over 50 local producers. It is the best saffron that we could find in all of Afghanistan. Every tin of Benefit Spice Saffron is beautifully packaged in a decorative box with colored tissue paper. Perfect for personal and corporate gift-giving! This saffron has been hand-picked by Afghan women from a large and extended farming family. It takes Our Special Reserve Saffron is picked within 48 hours of the saffron crocus first opening. It is noticeably brighter red, and its filaments are plump, dense, and larger than even our top-shelf Negin and Super Negin saffron. Benefit Spice Saffron is grown organically, harvested at its freshest, and vacuum dried to preserve its high levels of picrocin, crocin, and saffranal. Benefit Spice saffron is cleaned twice - once by our producers and again during weighing. Very small amounts of dried saffron crocus flower may remain. Your tin of saffron has been filled by weight, not volume, and each tin has been weighed twice, with a 1-10% overage. Our tins are oversized, so your saffron will not be crushed during packaging. We overdid it a bit on the 5-gram tins, so for a limited time only, all 5-gram tins of Benefit Spice Saffron contain 6 grams! 20% free! Your tin has been filled with intact, high-quality filaments. Some breakage may occur during shipping.