Abstract:Big data technology refers to the ability to quickly obtain valuable information from various types of data. Big data technology is developing to make food science serve people better, which provides a new success insight and a scientific analysis strategy for food science, which can improve the performance of food science in food tracing, food matching, recipe recommendation, food safety, food producing management, food preference, and predictability and accuracy of food analysis in future. However, there are some challenges in big data application, such as data loss and difficulty to distinguish authenticity. This review introduced the application of big data in food industry, analyzed the challenges and the feasible solutions, and prospect tendency of food big data. Food scientists in the research area of food big data are encouraged to do further study based on our survey, contributing to food science from the perspective of big data and realizing the improvement of food science according to the future development trend of food.