**5. Conclusions**

Because big data can provide a large amount of effective business information, the development of data-driven industries has attracted attention from all countries [92]. In 2012, the United States promoted big data as a national strategy to promote the formation of new economic growth and enhance national competitiveness [93]. Subsequently, EU member states formulated big data development strategies to transform traditional national governance models [94]. Big data to promote the development of the food industry has become a main research topic. This paper introduced the application of big data in food industry and showed that the main data sources are regulatory, enterprise, and media data. The results showed the grea<sup>t</sup> potential for big data for the food industry. Big data has particularly broad application prospects in social co-governance of the food industry, quantitative production, exploitation of consumption markets, new dishes, takeout services, and precise nutrition and health management. But, to exploit this full potential of big data, technical, social, and health and sustainable development issues require further research.

**Author Contributions:** Q.T.: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation and Writing— Original Draft & Review & Editing. H.D.: Investigation. H.W.: Validation and Writing—Review. X.C.: Supervision, and Funding acquisition. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** The authors would like to acknowledge the support provided by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFC1604000).

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** Data sharing is not applicable for this article.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors have no competing interest to declare.
