*Article* **Application Research: Big Data in Food Industry**

**Qi Tao 1, Hongwei Ding 1, Huixia Wang 2 and Xiaohui Cui 1,\***


**Abstract:** A huge amount of data is being produced in the food industry, but the application of big data—regulatory, food enterprise, and food-related media data—is still in its infancy. Each data source has the potential to develop the food industry, and big data has broad application prospects in areas like social co-governance, exploit of consumption markets, quantitative production, new dishes, take-out services, precise nutrition and health management. However, there are urgen<sup>t</sup> problems in technology, health and sustainable development that need to be solved to enable the application of big data to the food industry.

**Keywords:** food industry; big data; application prospect; sustainable development
