“…However, and particularly to specific sugar content, NIRS in combination with PLSR models has been used in sorghum stalks [40] and sweet sorghum (cellulose, lignin, and hemicellulose) [41], fruit juices [42,43], rice (amylose) [44], whey (lactose) [45], grasses (fructans) [46,47], maize (nonstructural and water soluble carbohydrates) [48], intact apple fruit to determinate fructose, glucose, and sucrose [49], orange [50], apricot [51], sugar beet [52], cherries [53], and other fruits ( Table 2). All these studies accorded that the performance of NIR spectroscopy is comparable to the reference chromatographic method, but the former is much faster and easier to carry out.…”