**3. Application to decision making on food processing methods**

The proposed plithogenic SWARA-TOPSIS is illustrated with the decision making on the food processing technology. Food processing industries are the flourishing kind of industries in recent times. The lifestyle of the present generation has increased the consumption of processed food to a maximum extent. The consumers of processed food are quite steadily increasing as it is becoming inevitable. In general, these food industries employ various food processing technology for consumer acceptability and also introduce modern technology to meet the customer needs [23, 24].

The decision-making environment consists of four alternatives and five criteria that are stated as follows in **Table 3**.

The initial linguistic decision-making matrices given by two decision-makers are as follows:

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#### **Table 3.**

*Alternatives and criteria of the decision-making environment.*


#### **Table 4.**

*Quantification of linguistic terms.*
