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Principal component analysis revealed that the percentages of PC1 and PC2 were 52.48% and 27.09%, respectively. Based on differential metabolites with great multicollinearity above 0.8 and the chi-square test (20% feature numbers), only 7 metabolites were found to represent the overall metabolites among the several colored rice varieties. Four machine learning models were further used for the classification of various colored rice varieties, and random forest model was the optimum for predicting classification, with an accuracy of 0.97. 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