teff
Teff is the world's smallest grain with an outsized résumé — Ethiopia's staple, gluten-free, mineral-dense, and a boutique accent on Western pet labels.
What it is
The tiny seed of an Ethiopian lovegrass — the injera grain. Its size means the whole grain is always eaten (no fraction games possible: you can't degerm a poppy-seed-sized kernel), carrying respectable iron, calcium, and fiber.
Why it's in pet food
Boutique ancient-grain positioning. The nutrition is real at human-staple quantities; at pet-label accent doses it's a good story with a mineral garnish.
How Bowlmark scores it
Scores are deterministic math over the printed label — the rules below apply to every product identically, and nothing estimates or fills in a blank.
Neutral, rosterless, and — pleasingly — structurally immune to the splitting rule's concern: teff has no marketable fractions to stack. The smallest grain on the label is also the most honest by construction, which this corpus notes with some affection.
Foods that list teff
No food on the shelf lists teff yet. Scan a bag that does and its label joins the catalog — versioned from the day it arrives.
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Cite this page
Bowlmark. "Teff in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/teff
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