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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The important quality parameters of cow’s milk for barista applications are frothability and foam stability. In the past, quality assessment was very time-consuming and could only be carried out after milk treatment had been completed. Since spectroscopy is already established in dairies, it could be advantageous to develop a spectrometer-based measurement method for quality control for barista applications. By integrating online spectroscopy to the processing of UHT (ultra-high temperature processing) milk before filling, it can be checked whether the currently processed product is suitable for barista applications. To test this hypothesis, a feasibility study was conducted. For this purpose, seasonal UHT whole milk samples were measured every 2 months over a period of more than 1 year, resulting in a total of 269 milk samples that were foamed. Samples were frothed using a self-designed laboratory frother. Frothability at the beginning and foam loss after 15 min describe the frothing characteristics of the milk and are predicted from the spectra. Near-infrared, Raman, and fluorescence spectra were recorded from each milk sample. These spectra were preprocessed using 15 different mathematical methods. For each spectrometer, 85% of the resulting spectral dataset was analyzed using partial least squares (PLS) regression and nine different variable selection (VS) algorithms. Using the remaining 15% of the spectral dataset, a prediction error was determined for each model and used to compare the models. Using spectroscopy and PLS modeling, the best results show a prediction error for milk frothability of 3% and foam stability of 2%.</jats:p>