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Nobeoka hinata saffron

Adopted as a hospitality food for the 2023 G7 Miyazaki Agriculture Ministerial Meeting

The most expensive spice in the world
Nowadays, each region tends to produce unique and rare foodstuffs,115 years of cultivation historyand inherits theKyushu University of Health and WelfareNobeoka City, Miyazaki Prefectureis engaged in saffron production.
Saffron has been cultivated in Greece since the Bronze Age.
The ancient Greeks prized the yellow color of saffron, and it was considered a royal color that only royalty such as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra were allowed to use.
To take 1g.Nearly 500 flowers neededand was traded at the equivalent of gold."The most expensive spice in the world."One of the
The light-purple saffron flower fragrance, used in the ancient Egyptian perfume kufi, is also an enchanting flower because of its stress-relieving and female hormone-enhancing properties.

High quality and reliability

The high quality of the product can be seen in the quality evaluation based on component analysis by the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Kyushu University of Health and Welfare, which is about 1.8 times higher than the Japanese Pharmacopoeia standard value (standard for pharmaceutical products). No scientific fertilizers or pesticides are used.
Farmers are responsible for the cultivation field, welfare work centers are responsible for pistil collection, and Kyushu University of Health and Welfare is responsible for component analysis. This spice from Nobeoka is carefully produced through the collaboration of agriculture, welfare, and medicine.