## 3 Results and Discussion  
### Dry Matter, Total Fat and Fatty Acid Profile of Teff Varieties  
The dry matter and crude fat content, and fatty acid profiles of teff varieties are presented in Table 2. The dry matter content of teff samples ranged between 89.00 and 90.38 g/100 g, where the content in DZ-Cr-387 was significantly lower (\(p<0.05\)) than the other teff varieties. The crude fat content was in the range from 2.92 to 3.34 g/100 g DM, which was slightly higher than the content in barley, maize and wheat, but lower than that reported in sorghum and oat [23; 24]. The result is consistent with the value detected by [PERSON] et al. [25] but lower than that reported by [PERSON] and [PERSON] [26]. The fat content in DZ-Cr-387 (3.34 g/100 g DM) was significantly higher (\(p<0.05\)) than the other teff varieties. On the other hand, the total fatty acid content of this variety was significantly higher (\(p<0.05\)) than that found in DZ-01-1278, DZ-01-1681, DZ-01-2053 and DZ-01-2675 varieties. More than 25 fatty acids were identified in the studied teff varieties. However, the most abundant fatty acids were linoleic (C18:2, _cis_, _cis_-9,12), oleic (C18:1 _cis_ 9), palmitic (C16:0), \(\alpha\)-linolenic (C18:3, all cis-9,12,15) and stearic (C18:0) in decreasing order (Table 2). \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Falty Acids**} & \multicolumn{5}{c}{**Telf Varieties**} \\ \cline{2-9}  & **DZ-01-1278** & **DZ-01-1681** & **DZ-01-2003** & **DZ-01-2423** & **DZ-01-2675** & **DZ-01-99** & **DZ-Cr-387** \\ \hline Dry matter (g/100 g) & 90.19 \(\pm\) 0.08 b ** & 90.17 \(\pm\) 0.07 b  & 90.28 \(\pm\) 0.12 b  & 90.38 \(\pm\) 0.15 b  & 90.38 \(\pm\) 0.06 b  & 90.13 \(\pm\) 0.07 b  & 890.00 \(\pm\) 0.04 a  \\ \hline Total fat (g/100 g DM) & 3.02 \(\pm\) 0.01 l  & 2.92 \(\pm\) 0.02 a  & 3.15 \(\pm\) 0.02 d  & 3.05 \(\pm\) 0.00  & 3.00 \(\pm\) 0.01 b  & 3.34 \(\pm\) 0.03 c  \\ \hline Fatty acid (mg/100 g DM) & 1653.32 \(\pm\) 336.10  & 1571.44 \(\pm\) 1087.5  & 1628.27 \(\pm\) 163.99  & 2007.69 \(\pm\) 581.83  & 1665.35 \(\pm\) 149.89  & 1938.63 \(\pm\) 85.08  & 225.12 \(\pm\) 138.47 b  \\ \hline Myristic (C140) & 0.17 \(\pm\) 0.04 a  & 0.16 \(\pm\) 0.02 a  & 0.13 \(\pm\) 0.04 a  & 0.14 \(\pm\) 0.03 a  & 0.16 \(\pm\) 0.03 a  & 0.17 \(\pm\) 0.05 a  & 0.12 \(\pm\) 0.02 a  \\ \hline Palmitic (C16.60) & 18.12 \(\pm\) 0.34 a  & 181.1 \(\pm\) 0.31 c  & 17.82 \(\pm\) 0.29 c  & 17.16 \(\pm\) 0.18 b  & 17.72 \(\pm\) 0.37 c  & 18.16 \(\pm\) 0.18 c  \\ \hline Margaric (C17.90) & 0.15 \(\pm\) 0.04 a  & 0.17 \(\pm\) 0.01 a  & 0.18 \(\pm\) 0.02 a  & 0.19 \(\pm\) 0.01 a  & 0.18 \(\pm\) 0.01 a  & 0.17 \(\pm\) 0.01 a  \\ \hline Stearic (C18.0) & 3.90 \(\pm\) 0.15 c  & 3.50 \(\pm\) 0.20 b  & 3.44 \(\pm\) 0.16 ab  & 3.87 \(\pm\) 0.12 c  & 3.64 \(\pm\) 0.23 b  & 3.33 \(\pm\) 0.14 a  & 3.68 \(\pm\) 0.12 b  \\ \hline Arachide (C20.00) & 0.77 \(\pm\) 0.04 a  & 0.72 \(\pm\) 0.04 a  & 0.68 \(\pm\) 0.04 b  & 0.74 \(\pm\) 0.06 b  & 0.65 \(\pm\) 0.03 a  & 0.70 \(\pm\) 0.03 a  \\ \hline Henecosanoic (C21.0) & -0.1 & -0.1 & -0.1 & -0.1 & -0.1 & 0.11 \(\pm\) 0.02 a  & 0.10 \(\pm\) 0.03 a  \\ \hline Behenic (C22.0) & 0.31 \(\pm\) 0.03 a  & 0.31 \(\pm\) 0.02 a  & 0.31 \(\pm\) 0.03 a  & 0.29 \(\pm\) 0.01 a  & 0.30 \(\pm\) 0.01 a  & 0.30 \(\pm\) 0.01 a  \\ \hline Tricosanoic (C23.03) & 0.30 \(\pm\) 0.14 b  & 0.26 \(\pm\) 0.14 b  & 0.34 \(\pm\) 0.08 b  & 0.10 \(\pm\) 0.01 a  & 0.18 \(\pm\) 0.12 b  & 0.28 \(\pm\) 0.14 b  & 0.24 \(\pm\) 0.12 b  \\ \hline Liposonic (C24.04) & 0.30 \(\pm\) 0.01 a  & 0.30 \(\pm\) 0.01 a  & 0.36 \(\pm\) 0.01 a  & 0.33 \(\pm\) 0.06 a  & 0.2 The content of palmitic acid (C16:0) in DZ-Cr-387 and oleic acid (C18:1 _cis_ 9) in DZ-01-1278 and DZ-01-99 were significantly lower (_p_ < 0.05) than that obtained in other teff varieties. DZ-01-2423 variety had higher oleic acid (C18:1 _cis_ 9) content whereas both DZ-01-2423 and DZ-01-2675 varieties had lower linoleic acid (C18:2, _cis_, _cis_-9,12) content compared to the remaining teff varieties at \(p\) < 0.05.