The life activities of animals and certain plants have much in common with processes and goals of food processing， which has been applied to the improvement of food processing technology by more and more scholars. The proposal of Food Engineering Bionics is to study life activities， simulate life process and create new methods in a more systematic and purposeful way， and overcome the technical problems faced by the food industry. The two basic characteristics of Food Engineering Bionics as follow： （1） the life activities need to be restudied and reunderstood from the perspective of food processing， and （2） the technical path of food processing need to be reconsidered based on inspiration from life activities. The main research contents to be carried out in the future include： Simulate life activities such as oral cavity processing， food digestion， nutrient absorption， sensory evaluation， liver detoxification， etc.， and the composition of life systems such as neurons， motion mechanisms， biological materials， etc.， carry out bionic design of key technologies such as food pre-processing， decomposition， separation， quality evaluation， harmful substance degradation， etc.， and bionic design of hardware systems such as intelligent control， food machinery， food machinery materials， etc. Through the discipline construction of food engineering bionics， it will lead relevant basic theoretical research， support breakthroughs in key technologies and promote the rapid and healthy development of the food industry.