Abstract: Healthy foods are foods that have additional health benefits when compared with ordinary foods. In recent years, with the vigorous development of the healthy food industry, healthy foods have gradually entered the public eye and become a hot spot. Natural products are a class of bioactive compounds that play an important role in healthy foods, and the processing is a vital part of the development of the healthy food industry. The development of healthy foods is inseparable from the ever-changing food processing technology. Based on this, this article summarizes the high-tech processing technologies for healthy foods, comprehensively compares and analyzes the high and new technologies applied in the processing steps such as natural product production, active ingredient protection, component modification, preservation, sterilization, and product design, and provides an outlook on the future development of healthy foods by using high and new technologies.

Key words: high and new technology; healthy foods; natural products; activity preservation; modification; preservation