“…As spectrometers have been applied to post-harvest processes as non-destructive tools, its data, i.e., spectra, which represent characteristics of target material, have been statistically modeled to sort and evaluate the quality of the product. This technique has been utilized for many agricultural and food products, such as fruits (ElMasry et al, 2008;Lee et al, 2014;Xing and De Baerdemaeker, 2005), crops (Nicolaï et al, 2007), vegetables (Pereira et al, 2008), animal products (Cho et al, 2009;Lohumi et al, 2016), and even seeds (Ambrose et al, 2016). However, these studies did not use mathematical models for agriculture and foods themselves, but to analyze spectral data.…”