The best way to drink saffron in water is to put only 5-10 sticks at a time. It can be brewed 4-5 times in a row.

Saffron in brewing water to drink, the amount of water needs to be controlled at about 200ml, so that the nutritional control of saffron in the human body can accept the range. Saffron in the brewing, you need to first wash the glass with freshly boiled boiling water, and then put 5 to 10 saffron into the glass, injected into 80 ~ 90 ℃ boiling water brewing, and quickly stirred with a teaspoon, 5 seconds after pouring off the tea, continue to fill the glass with boiling water, and cover with a lid simmering bubble, 5 minutes after you can drink.

Saffron purchase differentiation method

With saffron to watch the color change is also effective in distinguishing the authenticity of saffron one of the methods, the real saffron is refined by the purple-blue saffron stamens, take a sample of a small amount of immersed in the water, the water was dyed golden yellow and gradually downward in the water will not immediately become broken, and the water is bright light yellow. The water is bright light yellow, no oily float on the surface of the water with a magnifying glass to observe, the real one end of the puffed up into a trumpet shape, one side of the cracks.

And the fake is the stamens of other flowers and even radish cut into very fine silk, and then dyed and become, soak the radish will become crushed, dyed will quickly fade, and the water will become red or orange and have oily floaters, adulterated varieties of saffron stamens, yellow cauliflower dyed, corn style, stigma, saffron, lotus beard, and so on. So usually buy back the saffron can be distinguished by the subsequent version.

The above content reference? Baidu encyclopedia - saffron infusion