“…Interestingly, multivariate analyses is an important tool to extract useful information from large chemical and biochemical datasets using different mathematical and statistical methods (Granato, Santos, Escher, Ferreira, & Maggio, ). To our knowledge, multivariate methods are increasingly used to detect food fraud (authenticating food product origin; proving adulteration or illegal additives; Callao & Ruisánchez, ; Esteki, Heyden, Farajmand, & Kolahderazi, ), and show changes of food properties as a consequence of processing, and apply in food microbiology research (Granato, Putnik et al., ). Recently, some chemometric methods have been applied to screen for differences in the phenolic profiles of plant food (Capanoglu, Beekwilder, Boyacioglu, Hall, & De Vos, ; García‐Marino, Hernández‐Hierro, Santos‐Buelga, Rivas‐Gonzalo, & Escribano‐Bailón, ; Gonzales et al., ), such as principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS‐DA) (Gonzales et al., ; Granato, Santos et al., ; Granato, Putnik et al., ).…”