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Long-thread, all-red Kashmiri Mongra kesar from our family's fields in Pampore. ISO 3632 Grade I, tested by IIKSTC's government lab — full report published.
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₹359/g · GST-inclusive
ISO 3632 Grade I — tested by IIKSTC
IIKSTC Quality Evaluation Laboratory, Pampore · Government of J&K · NABL-accredited to ISO/IEC 17025
If your jar fails the home water-bloom test, or its grade or batch does not match, tell us within 7 days of delivery and we refund in full — no questions asked.
Report TC118432400000049E · lot L20020644 · issued 5 October 2026 · Returns & refunds
See the full lab reportThe same Kashmiri Mongra Saffron in every pack — only the quantity changes. The per-g column is the honest comparison, and it is the one worth making against any other seller.
| Pack | Price | Per g |
|---|---|---|
| 1 g | ₹359 | ₹359/gbest value |
| 2 g | ₹718 | ₹359/gbest value |
| 5 g | ₹1,795 | ₹359/gbest value |
| 10 g | ₹3,590 | ₹359/gbest value |
Prices as of 14 October 2026, GST included.
Kashmiri Mongra Saffron is the top of our all-red sort: only the longest, thickest, deep-crimson tips of the stigma, with the pale yellow style cut away. All red, no filler. Mongra is the Kashmiri name for this cut, and one of the three types of Kashmir saffron named in the Kashmir Saffron GI registration: Lachha, Mongra and Guchhi. These threads come from our own family fields in Pampore, where roughly 150-160 hand-picked crocus flowers go into a single gram, picked at dawn and separated the same day.
This jar and our Kashmiri Mongra Saffron (Short Thread) jar come out of the same harvest and the same all-red sort, tested ISO 3632 Grade I by IIKSTC. The difference is thread length: this jar is the long, unbroken top of the sort, picked out by hand. If you want the same saffron at a lower price and don't mind shorter threads, the Short Thread jar is ₹329/g.
Proof you can hold. Our saffron is tested by the IIKSTC Quality Evaluation Laboratory in Pampore, a NABL-accredited Government of J&K lab, and graded ISO 3632 Grade I: colouring strength (crocin) 217.51 against a Grade I minimum of 200, moisture 11.72%. The full report is published on our Lab reports page. Every jar is premium glass with a tamper-evident seal, packed by an FSSAI-licensed grower family (licence 11022470000019). Check it yourself too with the water-bloom test — drop a few threads in warm water and genuine saffron releases a golden-yellow colour slowly over 10-15 minutes while the threads stay whole and flare trumpet-shaped at the tip. Dyed or Iranian re-pack bleeds red almost instantly.
Ways to use it. Cooking: bloom 8–10 threads in two tablespoons of warm milk or water for 10 minutes, then stir into biryani, pulao, kheer, phirni, badam milk, or baking. Kahwa: 3-4 threads per cup with the green tea and spices. Kesar milk: a small pinch in warm milk at night — a long-standing practice in many Indian households, including during pregnancy (check with your doctor first). Skin: steep a few threads in raw milk or rose water for a homemade face milk. Saffron is also central to Indian festive gifting and pooja.
How long it lasts: a 1 g jar holds roughly 450 threads — about 45 servings, or two to three months for a household that cooks with saffron weekly. The 5 g and 10 g jars are the everyday-cooking and gifting sizes.
Storage: keep the jar sealed, away from light and moisture — a cool dark cupboard, not the fridge. Stored well, Grade I saffron holds its colour and aroma for over two years.

What saffron gives you
The harvest, on film
Thirty-nine seconds from the field. The reel beside it is the same walk — flower, hand, drying rack, sealed jar.





We grow it ourselves in Kashmir — so you can compare on facts, not marketing.
| The Heritage Kashmir | Typical online sellers | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it comes from | Grown and hand-sorted by our own family in Pampore — the fields are ours | Outsourced from mandis, importers or re-packers. Most brands, however big, do not own a farm. |
| Proof of what you get | ISO 3632 Grade I lab report from IIKSTC, published in full — plus a water-bloom test you run yourself | No verifiable proof — just a label |
| Freshness | Packed fresh from our own harvest, in a premium glass jar | Unknown stock age, often months old |
| Purity | Single-origin — never blended | Often blended, dyed, or re-packed Iranian saffron |
| Price | Best rate when you book direct on WhatsApp | Marked up by middlemen & marketplace fees |
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Order on WhatsAppTwo systems get mixed up constantly. The Kashmiri names below describe what part of the flower is in the jar. ISO 3632 is a separate laboratory standard that measures colour (crocin), flavour (picrocrocin) and aroma (safranal), and sorts the result into Category I, II or III. A jar worth buying should be able to state both. Grades like “A++” or “tested on 8 parameters” belong to neither system and mean nothing.
| Grade | What is in the jar | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Kashmiri Mongra Saffron (Long Thread)we sell this | Only the red part of the stigma. The yellow tail is cut off by hand, the step Kashmiri growers call Loût Czhttun (tail cutting). The longest, thickest, unbroken threads of that sort. | The GI text calls Mongra the highest quality because it is red stigma alone. Worth the long-thread premium where the threads are seen rather than dissolved — gifting, a wedding table. |
| Kashmiri Mongra Saffron (Short Thread)we sell this | The same all-red Mongra stigma from the same sort — shorter and more mixed in length. | Identical in colour, aroma and flavour, because those come from crocin, safranal and picrocrocin, not from thread length. The better buy for cooking. |
| Lachha | Whole stigmas with the yellow tail (the style) still attached, dried without further processing. | Genuine Kashmir saffron and one of the three GI types. You pay by weight for the yellow tail, which carries little colour or aroma, so it sells for less per gram than Mongra. |
| Guchhi | Lachha tied into small bundles with cloth thread (guchha means a small bundle). The GI text links it mostly to Poochal, Kishtwar. | The same saffron as Lachha in a different form, not a lower grade. Judge the threads inside the bundle the way you would judge loose Lachha. |
| Zarda (market term) | The yellow tails left over when Mongra is cut. | Not one of the three GI types. Very little colour or aroma; sold cheaply and sometimes mixed into lower-priced saffron. |
| Choora (market term) | Broken fragments and dust left after sorting. | Not a GI type. Used in industry and as food colouring. Easy to adulterate because the fragments hide what has been mixed in. |
Source for Lachha, Mongra and Guchhi: the Kashmir Saffron GI registration, GI Journal No. 127 (1 January 2020), which names those three types. Zarda and Choora are market terms the GI text does not use. The full comparison, with ISO, AGMARK and the Iranian names, is in our Kashmiri saffron grades guide.
Not sure what you already own? Five tests you can run at home will place it on this table in about ten minutes.
Yes. It is Kashmiri Mongra saffron from our family's fields in Pampore: only the red stigma tips, with the yellow style cut away by hand. Mongra is one of the three types of Kashmir saffron named in the Kashmir Saffron GI registration (GI Journal No. 127, 2020) — Lachha, Mongra and Guchhi — and the one made of red stigma alone. This jar holds the longest, thickest, unbroken threads of our Mongra sort. Mongra describes the cut; ISO 3632 is the separate laboratory standard for crocin, safranal and picrocrocin, and this jar is tested ISO 3632 Grade I by IIKSTC's NABL-accredited laboratory — the report is published on our Lab reports page.
Genuine Kashmiri Mongra saffron sells for roughly ₹350–₹600 a gram in India. Ours is ₹359 a gram for this long-thread jar and ₹329 a gram for the Short Thread jar, the same rate at every size: 1 g, 2 g, 5 g and 10 g. Both are ISO 3632 Grade I. Treat 'Mongra' offered under about ₹200 a gram as a warning — at that price it is usually Lachha, Iranian re-pack, or not saffron at all.
For cooking, honestly no. Both jars come out of the same harvest and the same all-red sort, to the same ISO 3632 Grade I standard — this jar is simply the long, unbroken threads picked out of that sort. In biryani, kheer, kahwa or milk you will not taste the difference, so the Kashmiri Mongra Saffron (Short Thread) jar at ₹329/g is the better buy. The long threads are worth it when they are seen rather than dissolved: gifting, a wedding table, or serving guests.
Kesar milk — a small pinch of saffron in warm milk — is a long-standing practice in many Indian households during pregnancy, usually from the second trimester. Keep the amount small (a few threads, not spoonfuls); large quantities are not advised. Saffron is a food here, not a medicine, and we make no medical claims. Please check with your own doctor before adding it, especially if you have a high-risk pregnancy.
Do the water-bloom test: drop 4-5 threads into warm (not hot) water. Real Kashmiri saffron releases a golden-yellow colour slowly over 10-15 minutes, the water never turns deep red, and the threads stay whole and flare into a trumpet shape at one end. Dyed or adulterated saffron bleeds red or orange almost immediately and the threads may disintegrate. If it fails that test, we refund in full — no questions asked.
A 1g jar holds roughly 450 threads. At 8-10 threads per dish that is about 45 servings — two to three months for a home that cooks with saffron weekly, longer for occasional use. A 5g jar (about 2,250 threads) is the everyday-cooking size and lasts most kitchens 8-12 months. Stored sealed and away from light, Grade I saffron keeps its colour and aroma for over two years, so buying the larger jar does not mean it goes to waste.
Always bloom it first — steep 8-10 threads in two tablespoons of warm milk or water for 10 minutes, then add the liquid and threads to your dish. This releases far more colour and aroma than tossing dry threads in. Use it in biryani, pulao, kheer, phirni, badam milk, kahwa, and baking. For kahwa, add 3-4 threads per cup along with the green tea and spices. A little goes a long way — over-using saffron makes a dish bitter and metallic.
Grades like 'A++', 'A1' or 'tested on 8 parameters' are marketing terms — they are not part of any real standard. The actual standard is ISO 3632, which sorts saffron into Category I, II or III. Ours is all-red Mongra stigma, no yellow style, from our own family fields in Pampore, and it is tested Category I (Grade I) by the IIKSTC Quality Evaluation Laboratory — crocin 217.51 against a minimum of 200. The full report is published on our Lab reports page. We are the Pampore Saffron Farmers Producer Company, an FSSAI-licensed grower, not a reseller buying loose stock. Much of the cheap 'Kashmiri saffron' online is Iranian stigma re-packed, or dyed. You are paying for a named grower who is accountable, not a sticker.
Yes — it is published. The IIKSTC Quality Evaluation Laboratory in Pampore, a NABL-accredited (ISO/IEC 17025) Government of J&K lab, tested our saffron and graded it ISO 3632 Grade I; the full report, report number TC118432400000049E, is on our Lab reports page with every value. Ask on WhatsApp which lot your jar comes from. ISO 3632 is the laboratory standard that measures crocin (colour), picrocrocin (taste) and safranal (aroma); Grade I, also called Category I, is its top band.
Our saffron is grown in our own fields in Pampore, inside the Kashmir saffron region registered as a Geographical Indication by the Government of India. A GI-tagged lot is listed as the third grade on this page and is currently out of stock; message us on WhatsApp to be told when it is back. Our chairman, Abdul Majeed Wani, was named by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for selling GI-tagged saffron through the Pampore Trading Centre's e-trading system.
The Pampore Saffron Farmers Producer Company — a grower family in Pampore, FSSAI licence 11022470000019, checkable on the FSSAI portal. The family works with the Directorate of Agriculture, Kashmir and trades through the India International Kashmir Saffron Trade Centre (IIKSTC), the government saffron park at Dussu, Pampore, where saffron is processed, grade-certified, GI-tagged and sold by e-auction. Photographs of the family's recognition, including a saffron-flower bouquet presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are on our Recognition page.
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