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1. Water soaking method: take a few saffron filaments, put them in hot water, and observe the discoloration of the water. Although the filaments of saffron are red, its active ingredients are yellow after soaking in water, while fake saffron can only be dyed red and remain red after soaking in water.

2. Observation method: The tip of the filament of the genuine product is swollen with a bell mouth.

If you want to tell whether the saffron is real or fake, you can first observe the appearance, most of the daily purchases are the stamens stigma on its flowers, so it looks like a very obvious red filament. Fake saffron is not a filament, it belongs to grass saffron, so it looks like a small red flower, which can be easily distinguished by its appearance.

In addition to observing the appearance, you can also press it to identify, generally fake saffron, in order to increase the weight, so the vendor will soak in oil, really will not have this situation. You can choose a clean white paper, put the saffron you bought in the middle and press it vigorously, if there is an oil stain, it means that it is fake, and no oil stain is real.

It can also be identified by the smell, the real saffron will have a very strong aroma, and the smell is more special, but the fake one will not have this taste, and the smell may be relatively light, or even not smelled directly.

Real saffron contains yellow, and the water turns yellow after soaking in water, but the saffron itself is still red, and this is true. The fake ones are generally dyed, and the water quality will turn pale red after soaking in water, and it will also turn white.

The authenticity of saffron can be distinguished by soaking, wiping, pressing, and iodine.

1. Water soaking method: After soaking the real saffron in water, you can see that the obvious yellow active ingredients are released from the surrounding of the filament, and the water will eventually be dyed golden yellow.

2. Wipe method: The traces of genuine saffron after wiping it vigorously on white paper are yellow or orange.

3. Pressing: After pressing the genuine saffron, there will be no oil stains on the paper.

4. Iodine wine method: iodine wine does not change blue after dripping into genuine saffron.

Notes:If the traces of the wiping method are not easy to develop, you can dip the filaments in water first and then wipe them.

Saffron has a wide range of medicinal properties, such as blood circulation and blood stasis, blood replenishment, prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, regulation of liver and kidney function, etc. Among them, beauty and beauty have a strong effect on menstrual irregularities, which has attracted the favor of many female friends. However, many friends do not know much about it**, they are afraid of being deceived and buy fakes.

The following will introduce to you the ** of saffron and the method of distinguishing the real from the fake.

Saffron**.

At present, the channels for buying saffron on the market are mainly divided into the tourism market, time-honored pharmacies, medicinal materials market, ** and saffron official website, and the purchase and quality of each channel are different.

Tourism market: 100 yuan per gram has a few hundred. The quality is uneven, the good and the bad are uneven, and it is easy to be deceived by unscrupulous merchants.

Time-honored pharmacies: about 100 yuan per gram, average quality. If you don't have another purchase channel, it is recommended to buy it in a time-honored pharmacy, which has a low risk of being scammed.

Medicinal materials market: The wholesale price of saffron in the medicinal materials market is about 12,000 yuan to 30,000 yuan per kilogram, and the quality of the medicinal materials market can still be guaranteed. Of course, there are unscrupulous merchants, so choose a reputable merchant when purchasing.

How to distinguish the authenticity.

Methods of observation. The part of saffron that is used in medicine is the stigma of the pistil, which dries into red filaments, and the tip of the filaments resembles a trumpet, and it smells faintly fragrant.

Immersion method. Soaking in water is the best way to distinguish the real from the fake. Although the saffron filigree is red, it is golden yellow when soaked in water, and the color is very beautiful. Most counterfeit products use dyes to achieve the effect of fake and real. After soaking in water, the color is reddish or crimson and cloudy.

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