Abstract: Artificial meat mainly imitates the taste, characteristics and cooking properties of animal meat to replace animal meat, so as to reduce production costs and cater to the needs of vegetarians, obese people and the "three high" people. This paper describes the types, processing technology and existing quality problems of existing artificial meat, further describes the characteristics of polysaccharides and their application in artificial meat, analyzes and evaluates the characteristics of artificial meat prepared by polysaccharides from the aspects of flavor, nutrition and taste, and finally puts forward some development directions for the future research and development of artificial meat technology, so as to provide reference for the improvement of artificial meat development in the future.