Abstract:Poultry eggs are one of the pillar industries of China’s rural and agricultural economy. The rapid and non-destructive testing of the quality of feed-fortified eggs is of great significance to the development of the industry. Based on visible-near infrared spectroscopy technology, the specific spectral characteristics of astaxanthin (ASTA) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) feed-fortified eggs were explored, and an identification and quality prediction model was built. Firstly, the transmission spectra of ASTA/SOD fed eggs and ordinary eggs were collected in the 500~950nm range, and their quality differences were verified through physical and chemical measurements. The results showed that the ASTA group could significantly increase egg protein content and egg yolk color (P<0.05). In the early stage of feeding, the SOD group can significantly increase the fat content of eggs (P<0.05), and both the ASTA group and the SOD group can significantly reduce the water content of eggs (P<0.05). Then the specific spectral characteristics of fed eggs were explored based on the transmission spectrum, and three feature selection methods were combined with the competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS) algorithm, the successive projections algorithm (SPA) and the uninformative variables elimination (UVE) through different preprocessing methods. The algorithm constructed a support vector machine (SVM) identification model and a partial least squares regression (PLSR) model. The results showed that the optimal identification model for ASTA/SOD fed eggs was SG-CARS-SVM, and the recognition rate of the test set was 95.33%. For the three key quality indicators of protein content, moisture content and fat content of eggs fed with ASTA/SOD, the optimal prediction models of the ASTA group were FD-CARS-PLSR, Auto-CARS-PLSR and SNV-CARS-PLSR, respectively, and the corresponding test set R2p values were 0.933, 0.937 and 0.889, and RMSEP were 0.250%, 0.209% and 0.196%, respectively;in the SOD group, the optimal models were FD-CARS-PLSR, MSC-CARS-PLSR and FD-CARS-PLSR, respectively, and their test set R2p values were 0.929, 0.824 and 0.817, and RMSEP were 0.239%, 0.310% and 0.273%, respectively. The spectral model established can realize non-destructive identification and rapid quality prediction of ASTA/SOD-fed eggs, providing support for egg quality monitoring and high-quality breeding.