随着经济的发展和生活的改善，国际上对环境和健康日益关注，对食品安全问题的日益重视，回归大自然、崇尚绿色、健康饮食成为新的消费潮流。世界各国有机食品、绿色食品、功能食品、健康食品、保健食品已成为食品工业新的增长点，食品添加剂的功能化也成为国际上食品添加剂的发展趋向。我国食品添加剂行业提出了大力开发“天然、营养、多功能添加剂”的发展方针，其发展的方向是天然、营养、多功能且安全可靠。近年来，这类功能性食品添加剂和配料的品种和产量逐渐上升。随着我国健康产业的发展，功能食品配料必然越来越多地被人们所重视，功能食品配料被誉为21世纪的“财富 第五波”，必然成为食品行业发展的主流。
With the development of economy and improvement of life, more and more attentions are focused on the environmental and healthy problems and healthy diet becomes a new consumption trend. Organic food, green food, functional food and healthy food have made a great contribution to the whole food industry and versatility has become the trend of the development of the food additives. The policy proposed in China is devoting on developing the kind of additive that is " natural, nutritive and multifunctional". Recently, the production of the functional food additive is increasing rapidly, making people realize the importance of it. Nowadays, functional food is known as the "5th wealth wave" of the 21st centry, which will become the mainstream of the development od the food industry.
