6. Conclusion
This study demonstrated the potential of NIRS for rapid prediction
of AC and GPC of BR samples. The major outcome of this study
largely depends on the variations and precision in the reference
values and suitable regression equations used. The models for
the AC obtained in this work were more precise than the models
reported by Hu et al. (2014), Barton et al. (2000) where SECV were
higher (1.927 and 1.830) as compared to this study (1.520). For the
GPC of BR, the current results were slightly less precise to those