SECTION 4

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Questions 31-40

Saffron.

Saffron

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Saffron
Cultivation and production
Harvested in October
Number of stigmas needed for 50 grams:
Method of preservation:
Taste and aroma
like honey
Forms in which sold: as whole stigmas and as a
Uses of saffron today
To colour and flavour food in many countries especially for making
dishes
In medicine
as a drug in treatment of problems affecting the
experiments with rats as protection from exposure to some types of
History of saffron use
Ancient Crete as a dye for
Roman Empire
in oil used for the production of
as a
dye that can be used on different types of materials
Persia (Iran)
as a dye used in the making of