With a long time of evolution, life has formed a set of extremely perfect technology to produce nutrients from food materials, and many life activities have the same effect as the existing unit operations of food processing. Therefore, the theory and technology innovation of food processing based on bionics theory and learning from life body have been widely concerned at home and abroad. This paper summarized and analyzed the research cases of food processing technology innovation inspired by human senses, food digestion, nutrient absorption, biosynthesis, biomaterials, bio-mechanisms and bio-forming. The main tasks of bionic development in future food industry were summarized into three aspects. 1) Recognizing life activities:breaking through the limitations of life science research based on the needs of health and production (growth), suggesting that life activities should be re-studied and life phenomena should be re-understood from the perspective of making nutrients needed for normal growth. 2) Deepening the started bionic research work:according to the re-research results of life activities, further study of the bionic technology that had been started, and explored new ideas. 3) Developing new bionic research methods:through comparison, finding out the life activities in animals, plants and microorganisms corresponding relationship with food processing technology, exploiting the never touched bionic research field, and promoting the original innovation in the field of food. This paper once again emphasized the importance of the discipline construction of food engineering bionics.