A green coffee bean identification method includes obtaining an image of a green coffee bean by an image capture device, wherein the image includes pixels; reading an average value weight, a standard deviation weight, and a threshold value corresponding to the origin or the variety of green coffee beans from a memory; extracting three primary color grayscale values for each pixel from the image; calculating the average values and the standard deviations corresponding to the green coffee bean according to the approximate normal distributions of the three primary color grayscale value distributions; and respectively multiplying the average value and the standard deviation by the average value weight and the standard deviation weight to be then added together to calculate the total scoring value, wherein when the total scoring value is less than (respectively larger than) the threshold value, the green coffee bean is identified as a qualified (respectively defective) bean. |