The human intestinal tract contains a total of 10¹³-10¹⁴ microorganisms that comprise the intestinal micro-ecosystem. Intestinal microflora balance plays an important role in maintaining the body’s health. A number of factors, including high-fat diet and obesity with associated sub-health problems, are associated with disorders of the intestinal flora. Therefore, probiotics or probiotics-based products intervention to the gut is an important way to treat or prevent these sub-health problems. Probiotics-containing foods and probiotic-based products are the primary sources of exogenous probiotics supplementation. There are a large variety of probiotics-formulated products worldwide. As beneficial raw materials, probiotics have been used in healthy foods, and the development of new probiotics-contained health food is more and more important. This article summarizes the types of probiotics-based products and their main health-maintaining functions. The application status and development prospect of probiotics in health food are also stated, which will provide a direction for the development of probiotic products in the future.