Jointly applied by Nanchang University and Jiangnan University, the State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources of Nanchang University was established on the basis of the State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology through the approval approved by Ministry of Science and Technology in 2022. The State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology of Nanchang University was approved by Ministry of Science and Technology and established in 2007. It has passed successfully in the procedures of the acceptances which were conducted by the team of expert entrusted by Ministry of Science and Technology in January 2010, and successfully passed the evaluation procedures of the Ministry of Science and Technology in March 2011, and also successfully passed the second evaluation in 2016. The laboratory successfully passed the reorganization of the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2022 and was approved as the State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resource (hereinafter referred to as laboratory).

Based in Jiangxi and facing the whole country, the laboratory adheres to the “four aspects”, focuses on the requirements of national development strategy, closely follows the international research frontier of food science and technology, gives full play to the characteristics and advantages of multi-disciplinary and international cooperation, takes “food science and human health, high value utilization of food resources” as the research theme, and carries out research on the correlation between food and human health, food resource excavation and efficient utilization. Major theories and key technologies in the field of food science would be systematically studied, so as to provide theoretical guidance and technical support for solving major issues of food nutrition and safety and efficient utilization of food resources, which have a bearing on the nation's economy and people's livelihood.

The laboratory gathers the talents from food-related subjects at Nanchang University with the famous experts and scholars as its academic team which consists of Academician of Chinese Academy of  Engineering, Fellow of International Academy of Food Science and Technology, the members of Academic Degree Commission under the State Council, the members of the academic division of the Science and Technology Commission under Ministry of Education, The gainer of “The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars”，National high-level talents Special support program scientific and technological innovation leaders, The gainer of “The National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars”，“Ministry of Education National Major Talent Project” Young Scholars, the gainer of “the National Overseas High-level Talent Introduction Program-Youth Project”, the academic leaders from state key discipline as well as a group of young researchers and doctors who gained doctoral degree interiorly or abroad.

Based on the principle of being “open, mobile, cooperative, and competitive”and after several years of construction, the laboratory has established a team of talents which is reasonable in its personnel structure with a good condition for scientific research activities, meanwhile, it has obtained a number of high-level scientific research achievements. It is quite fruitful in transferring its research achievements to production and making contributions to the economic development. Of the overall level, it is one of the top institutions in the field of food science in our country.