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Saffron threads falling into an open jar of Zaravan Super Negin.

Red gold from Khorasan.

Single-origin saffron, hand-picked by the third generation of one family and laboratory-verified before it leaves the farm.

Shop the harvest
  • Single-origin Khorasan
  • ISO 3632-2 Category I
  • 2026 harvest
  • Worldwide in under a week
  • Duties paid to the EU, UK, US and Canada
Open amber jar heaped with Super Negin threads, its brass lid leaning beside it.

Super Negin

Zaravan Signature

Our longest all-red threads, the top three to five percent of each harvest, in four sizes.

Size
$55$11.00 per gram

Amber glass jar, tin lid

Our family’s signature grade in a kitchen-size jar. The threads keep their shape, aroma, and measured colour.

Every grade, plainly priced.

One origin. Every grade and size marked plainly, from a kitchen tin to the whole tied flower.

Open black gift box holding two saffron jars, a brass measuring spoon and a card.

Gift Box

$79
Super Negin 3 g + Negin 3 g, 6 gGift set

Two grades from the same field, presented side by side. A small way to share the harvest and its story.

Open amber jar of Negin threads with a matte black lid resting against it.

Select

$46
Negin, 5 g$9.20 / g
Hand-tied bunch of whole saffron threads, red tips and pale styles, in a wooden box.

Heritage Bunch

$48
Dasteh, 10 g$4.80 / g
Closed black tin with a brass rim holding five grams of Sargol saffron.

Kitchen

$39
Sargol, 5 g$7.80 / g
Open black tin filled with Sargol threads, its lid propped against the side.

Kitchen Large

$62
Sargol / Pushal, 10 g$6.20 / g
Large black tin with a brass band holding fifty grams of Super Negin saffron.

Chef & Trade

$385
Super Negin, 50 g$7.70 / g

Our signature threads packed for a working kitchen. One grade, one batch, with each order traceable.

Trade accounts order 100 g to 1 kg, priced by quote.

Trust is a matter of detail.

  1. ISO 3632-2

    Measured before it leaves us.

    Every batch is tested to ISO 3632-2. Its crocin, picrocrocin, and safranal values travel with it.

  2. 1961

    One family. One region.

    Our threads are grown and picked in Khorasan by the family behind Zaravan, on land first planted in 1961.

  3. 2026

    Only the current harvest.

    We mark the harvest year and batch on every package, then seal the threads at source.

  4. 7 days

    Across the distance, quickly.

    Worldwide delivery in under seven days, or the shipping is refunded. Duties are paid for the EU, UK, US, and Canada.

The harvest, in their words.

“I have never had threads this uniform. The colour comes out of them in about thirty seconds.”

Marta K.Hamburg, Germany

“The per-gram price at the 50 g tin is better than our previous supplier, and the quality isn’t close.”

Élodie M.Chef, Lyon, France

“I ordered on a Tuesday and it was on my counter in Toronto on Friday, duties already paid.”

David R.Toronto, Canada

“My mother smelled it through the sealed pouch and told me I had finally bought the right one.”

Sara T.London, United Kingdom

“The lab report and the harvest date on the jar are what convinced me, and the saffron lived up to them.”

Michael B.Portland, Oregon

Draft reviews for layout only. Verified customer reviews replace them before launch.

From our field to your kitchen, nothing in between.

Three harvests, one family.

In the highlands of Khorasan, the saffron crocus flowers for two weeks each autumn. It opens before dawn and closes by mid-morning, and in those few hours the entire year is decided. The flowers must be picked by hand while still closed, and the three crimson threads inside each one separated by hand the same day, before the colour begins to fade.

Our grandfather planted his first corms on this land in 1961. He taught our father where the soil holds water and where it drains, which slopes catch the first light, and how to tell by the weight of a handful of threads whether they have been dried a minute too long. Our father taught us.

For most of those sixty years our saffron left the farm in unmarked sacks. It was bought by brokers, blended with lesser harvests, repacked in other countries, and sold under other names. The people who cooked with it never knew where it came from. We never knew who they were.

Zaravan exists to close that distance. Every jar we send carries the year it was harvested, the batch it came from, and the laboratory report that confirms what is inside it. Nothing is added. Nothing is blended. It goes from our field to your kitchen and nowhere else in between.

The Zaravan family, Khorasan