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ArticleBiology methods & protocols2025

Assessing nutritional pigment content of green and red leafy vegetables by image analysis: Catching the "red herring" of plant digital color processing via machine learning.

Avinash Agarwal, Filipe de Jesus Colwell, Viviana Andrea Correa Galvis, Tom R Hill, Neil Boonham, Ankush Prashar

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Avinash AgarwalSchool of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9855-0144
Filipe de Jesus ColwellCrop Science R&D Division, InFarm-Indoor Urban Farming B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Viviana Andrea Correa GalvisCrop Science R&D Division, InFarm-Indoor Urban Farming B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Tom R HillFaculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Neil BoonhamSchool of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Ankush PrasharSchool of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6977-4774

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Estimating pigment content of leafy vegetables via digital image analysis is a reliable method for high-throughput assessment of their nutritional value. However, the current leaf color analysis models developed using green-leaved plants fail to perform reliably while analyzing images of anthocyanin (Anth)-rich red-leaved varieties due to misleading or "red herring" trends. Hence, the present study explores the potential for machine learning (ML)-based estimation of nutritional pigment content for green and red leafy vegetables simultaneously using digital color features. For this, images of

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anthocyanincarotenoidchlorophyllimage analysismachine learningnutrition

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