In China,food additives abuse in food industry is common,causes a lot of food safety incidents,and becomes one of the most concerned issues of the public.In this paper,we took a survey about the use of food additive in 88 food processing enterprises of Zhengzhou,studying the using of food additives by processing enterprises profoundly.The result demonstrates that a stricter regulation of the use of food additives is essential;and the size of enterprises,the category of products and the integrated level of supply chain have some relevance with enterprises'using of food additives.