Abstract: In order to achieve non-destructive analysis of shelf life, soluble solid content (SSC) and pH of Golden Delicious apples, the spectral information of six different shelf life (postharvest 0, 7, 14, 21, 28 and 35 d) of apple was collected by hyperspectral imaging system (400~1000 nm) and near-infrared spectroscopy (800~2500 nm), respectively. The spectroscopy data was pro-processed by Savitzky-Golay (SGS), Savitzky-Golay First Derivative (1D), standard normal variate, SNV) and area normalize (Normalize), competitive adaptive reweighted sampling aglorithm (CARS) and uninformative variable elimination (UVE) were used to extract characteristic wavelengths, and the shelf-life classification models were established by back propagation neural network (BP) and least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM). In order to predict SSC and pH of apple, gray level cooccurrence matrix (GLCM) was used to extract 8 texture features from the hyperspectral images of apple. Feature variables were extracted from the spectral data of pre-processed hyperspectral images, spectral and texture fusion data of hyperspectral images, and near-infrared spectral data by CARS, and predictive models were established by PLSR and LS-SVM. The results showed that both NIR and hyperspectral imaging techniques could determine the shelf life of Golden Delicious apples. The optimal model was established by 1D+UVE+BP based on hyperspectral images, and the accuracy rate was 100%. The quantitative prediction models for SSC were established using a 1D+CARS+PLSR approach based on near-infrared spectroscopy, which demonstrated the most effective predictive performance. The correlation coefficient of the prediction set (Rp) and the root mean square error of prediction set (RMSEP) values were found to be 0.9323 and 0.4036, respectively. The SNV+CARS+LS-SVM model, utilizing near-infrared spectroscopy, demonstrated the most effective predictive performance, with Rp and RMSEP values of 0.8749 and 0.0417, respectively. The findings of this research offer valuable technical support and a foundational basis for the non-destructive testing of Golden Delicious apples.