Under the rapid development of food industry,the teaching reform of food major courses in universities should be carried out immediately.The problems in traditional teaching,such as emphasizing theory over practice,emphasizing professional knowledge over ideological and political education,need to be solved urgently.For students of engineering disciplines,like food major,the application talents are required nowadays.At the same time,as an industry related to people's livelihood,a series of food safety incidents in recent years have made some consumers worried about the quality of food in China.In order to restore consumers' confidence in China's food safety,food practitioners need to take responsibility,operate conscientiously,and be responsible for the health of consumers.Therefore,it is necessary to increase the integration of practice and ideological and political elements in education of food course in colleges and universities.This paper mainly takes two courses,Fermented Food Technology and Food Sensory Evaluation,as examples to explore the application of some teaching reform methods in food specialty courses,so as to provide useful references for the teaching reform of other courses.