“…PCA is an unsupervised discrimination method generating principal components explaining variability in the data set (Eriksson et al, 2001). Studies on FT-IR spectroscopic analyses were performed on discrimination of edible oils (Javidnia, Parish, Karimi, & Hemmateenejad, 2013), prediction of geographical origins of butters (Bassbasi, De Luca, Ioele, Oussama, & Ragno, 2014), classification of tea varieties (Cai, Wang, Xi, Li, & Wei, 2015), detection of authentication and adulteration purposes (Gurdeniz & Ozen, 2009;Li, Wang, Zhao, Ouyang, & Wu, 2015;Rohman, Riyanto, Sasi, & Yusof, 2014;L. Xu, Cai, Cui, Ye, & Yu, 2012) and for differentiation of pea and oat roots (Naumann, Heine, & Rauber, 2010).…”