“…The former has been used for the rapid detection of total viable counts in pork (Barbin, Sun, & Su, 2013;Huang, Zhao, Chen, & Zhang, 2013) and of the water-holding capacity of fresh beef (ElMasry, Sun, & Allen, 2011) and pork (Prevolnik, Čandek-Potokar, & Škorjanc, 2010). Meanwhile, multispectral image analysis has high potency for the evaluation of food quality systems during handling, processing and storage (Løkke et al, 2013), and it has been previously used for the conversion of meat color in L*, a*, b* values (Sharifzadeh, Clemmensen, Borggaard, Støier, & Ersbøll, 2014) and for quality assessment of beef (Dissing et al, 2013;Panagou, Papadopoulou, Carstensen, & Nychas, 2014).…”