“…Recently, it has been used in different studies in quality evaluation of different agro‐food products, for example, for predicting heme and nonheme iron contents in pork sausage (Ma et al., 2016), transgenic assessment of crop seeds (Liu et al., 2014a, 2016a), classification of storage period in tea (Xiong et al., 2015), quality evaluation of rocket (Løkke, Seefeldt, Skov, & Edelenbos, 2013), quality monitoring of in‐shell infestation in almonds and sunflower seeds (Ma et al., 2015; Yu et al., 2019), characterizing sensory properties and physicochemical parameters in strawberry and tomato fruits (Li et al., 2014; Liu, Liu, Chen, Yang, & Zheng, 2015; Liu et al, 2014b), pork microbial safety identification (Dissing et al., 2013; Ma et al., 2014), and adulteration prediction in meat, tomato paste, and infant formula powder (Liu et al., 2017; Liu, Liu, Yang, Chen, & Zheng, 2017; Ropodi, Pavlidis, Mohareb, Panagou, & Nychas, 2015a). Furthermore, spectral imaging holds high potential for quality assessment relevant to moisture contents, for example, for inspection of frozen minced beef followed by thawing process (Ropodi, Panagou, & Nychas, 2018), identification of moisture contents in carrots (Liu et al., 2016b), and dehydrated prawns (Wu et al., 2012). Although MSI technology is a promising solution, it still remains a challenge to monitor water status in mushroom during drying process.…”