“…With such advantages and flexibility, NIR hyperspectral imaging technique was developed to analyze various food adulteration to determine adulterants including duck or pork in minced lamb (Kamruzzaman, Sun, ElMasry, & Allen, 2013;Zheng, Li, Wei, & Peng, 2019), adulteration of shrimp with gelatine (Wu, Shi, He, Yu, & Bao, 2013), starch adulteration of fresh cheese (Barreto, Cruz-Tirado, Siche, & Quevedo, 2018), herbals in tea samples (Sandasi, Chen, Vermaak, & Viljoen, 2018), and papaya seed, buckwheat or millet in black pepper (McGoverin, September, Geladia, & Manley, 2012;Orrillo et al, 2019). Furthermore, NIR hyperspectral imaging has also been successfully performed the detection and analysis of adulteration in powdered food, involving milk powder adulterated with melamine (Fu et al, 2014), adulterated organic Avatar wheat flour with common wheat flour, cassava flour, and corn flour (Su & Sun, 2017), detection of adulterations with different grains in wheat products (Verdú et al, 2016), purity detection of organic spelt flour (Su & Sun, 2016), ergot particle quantification in cereal flour (Vermeulen, Ebeneb, Orlandoc, Pierna, & Baeten, 2017), whole wheat flour blended with walnut and peanut powders (Zhao et al, 2018), and identification of adulterated cooked millet flour (Shao, Xuan, Hu, & Gao, 2018). However, to the best of our knowledge, detection of adulterants and authenticity discrimination for raw coarse grain flours has been rarely discussed using NIR hyperspectral imaging.…”