Differentiation of mangoes (Magnifera indica L.) conventional and organically cultivated according to their mineral content by using support vector machines

► Concentration of Ca, Co, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni and Zn in mangoes were obtained by AAS. ► The aim of this job was to differentiate between conventional and organic cultivating. ► Pattern recognition classification procedures were applied for discriminating purposes. ► LDA and SVM allows to a classification performance of 73% and 93% of prediction ability.