“…The traditional identification methods of A. fructus , include tasting, sniffing, and visual inspection ( Hou et al, 2015 ), and although the identification speed is fast, the resulting description is relatively vague, subjective, and lacks objective quantitative criteria, which limits its practical applications. Modern identification methods include GC ( Xu et al, 2018 ), GC-MS( Wang et al, 2021a ; Gu et al, 2022 ), and DNA barcoding ( Huang et al, 2017 ; Lu et al, 2021 ) which have accurate and reliable results; however, the sample pretreatment is cumbersome, time-consuming and has high technical operational requirements. Therefore, a rapid and accurate quality identification method for A. fructus is urgently needed ( Gui et al, 2023 ).…”