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Teff + teff

Affinity score 100%Shared compounds 20Source: modal-canonical-v1

Eragrostis tef, teff, Williams lovegrass, annual bunch grass, taf (Tigrinya: ጣፍ? ṭaff; Amharic: ጤፍ? ṭēff) and xaafii (Oromo)), is an annual grass, a species of lovegrass native to the northern Ethiopian Highlands and Eritrean Highlands of the Horn of Africa. The word "tef" is connected by folk etymology to the Ethio-Semitic root "\tff\", which means "lost" (because of the small size of the grain).

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teff

seed from Eragrostis tef

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Shared flavor compounds

These compounds appear in both Teff and teff, giving them a molecular basis for flavor affinity, the pairing principle articulated by Francois Benzi and implemented in flavor-pairing research.

(+)-1(10),4-cadinadiene(+)-7-iso-jasmonate(+)-cis-abscisic aldehyde(+)-lariciresinol(+)-marmesin(+)-neomenthol(+)-pinoresinol(+)-pulegone(+)-secoisolariciresinol(+)-syringaresinol(+)-taxifolin(-)-jasmonoyl-l-isoleucine(-)-lactol(-)-lariciresinol(-)-maackiain(-)-maackiain-3-o-glucoside(-)-matairesinol(-)-medicarpin(-)-medicarpin-3-o-glucoside(-)-menthone

Why it works

The flavor-pairing hypothesis proposes that ingredients sharing significant aromatic compounds harmonize on the palate. Teff and teff overlap on 20 key compound(s), which is why classic culinary traditions, and our deterministic matching algorithm, place them together.

Verification

Pairing computed by: pairing-compute
Methodology: deterministic compound-overlap matching (no LLM)
Compound data: Wikidata + Wikidata
Part of: Living Gastronomic Intelligence graph

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