“…ATR-FTIR is a fast, simple, reproducible, non-invasive, and cost-effective analytical method by which plant structural molecules like polysaccharides, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids, together with secondary metabolites like phenols, terpenoids, alkaloids, and the intra- and inter-molecular interactions in the plant cell wall can be studied [ 94 , 155 , 156 ]. FTIR spectroscopy is a renowned molecular fingerprinting method, which has been previously used to show that cabbage and other related vegetables have IR spectra characteristic to a convolution of cellulose, pectin, and lignin, with additional particularities represented by aliphatic biocompounds like glucoiberin, gluconapin, glucoraphanin or sinigrin glucosinolates [ 80 , 102 , 103 ], lipids, phospholipids, glucolipids [ 110 , 111 , 112 , 157 ], and possible hydroxyketones [ 113 , 114 ]. FTIR proved very useful in analyzing the influence of fertilizers on other plants from Brassica genus.…”