The Teff , or Tef, is a Plante of the family of the Poacée S (Graminée S), cultivated like secondary Céréale in Africa.

Scientific name: Eragrostis tef (Zuccagni) Trotter, family of the Poacée S, subfamily of the Chloridoideae tribe of the Eragrostideae .

Common noun: teff.

This plant, originating in the Top-Plates of Ethiopia, very has Graine S of small size; it is said that a handle is enough to sow a whole field. This characteristic makes of it a cereal very adapted to the seminomad lifestyle.

The teff is a particularly important cereal in Ethiopia, where it is the basic ingredient of a kind of wafer, the will injera.

These seeds deprived of Gluten are invaluable for the people held to follow a mode without gluten.

- African Spices - To import/distributer Teff of [[Ethiopia]]

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