“…In health sector, NIRS has been used for glucose monitoring in human serum (Goodarzi & Saeys, 2016), for the development of an early alert system for cerebral hypoxaemia (Cruz et al, 2016) and for the measurement of muscle oxygenation (Olivier et al, 2016). Recently, application of nearinfrared spectroscopy has also been reported in food and grain industry for the quality prediction of pork (Huang et al, 2014), fermented cocoa (Kr€ ahmer et al, 2015), dried egg-pasta (Bevilacqua et al, 2013), potato chips (Ni et al, 2011), fish fillet (Alamprese & Casiraghi, 2015) and wheat flour (Cocchi et al, 2006), to determine quality parameters of food grains such as amylose and protein content of rice (Xie et al, 2014), moisture, carbohydrate and protein content of wheat grain (Salg o & Gergely, 2012), biophysical characteristics of barley starch (Cozzolino et al, 2013) and protein, starch and seed weight of kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) (Hacisalihoglu et al, 2010).…”