They're baked on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, and shipped overseas in a bag; it's difficult to do them much harm.
These Wehbe brand wheat-flour biscuits (100 g.; $1) are leavened with baking soda and unnamed raising agents; a little sugar and salt round out the ingredients but add little to the negligible flavor. Their primary attraction was light weight; on Touba's shelves I spotted jars of preserves, and bottles of syrup, featuring saba, also known as gumvine fruit, but I wasn't willing to add another load to my backpack or, at home, clear room in my larder.
Touba International Flavor
245 West 116th St. (Adam Clayton Powell Jr.-Frederick Douglass Blvds.)
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