“…Fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIR), associated with chemometrics, may be a suitable strategy as it is considered to be fast, sensitive, non-invasive, nondestructive, relatively low cost, providing a large amount of information with only one test, as it requires little or no sample pre-treatment. It is clean, since it eliminates the use of chemical reagents and avoids the generation of waste that is harmful to the environment, and the equipment is relatively easy to handle (Lima et al, 2020). Infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics are techniques that are always allied, because the spectra have wide and overlapping bands and multivariate analysis becomes a valuable tool to remove the information contained therein, allowing the identification and quantification of various parameters in different matrices (Souza, 2013).…”