Controlled release starch due to its special features was becoming a hot topic in medicine, food and other fields. The difference of the basic definitions were distincted between slowly digestible starch and controlled release starch, and the main carrier forms of controlled release starch and research status in the recent years were also discussed. In addition,we sum- marized the application of controlled release of starch in food and vegetable storage, the production of flavors and fragrances, as well as health functional food production, and analyzed the limitations and difficulties,to prov...