Currently food safety accidents occurs frequently, but food safety knowledge propaganda and education for college students is not in place and contemporary college students' food safety awareness is weak. For XX university college student potential food safety problems in the daily diet, selecting 3 classes randomly from 900 classes of freshman to junior students, students from selected 45 classes are the research object. Food safety status is surveyed through questionnaire. 1000 questionnaires are issued and 924 questionnaire are completed accounting for 92.4%, of which 902 questionnaires are valid accounting for 90.2%. The current situation of college students’ awareness of food safety, influence factor and their mutual relationship are further studied. This paper puts forward suggestions and measures to strengthen students’ awareness of food safety, which provide basic scientific knowledge to prevent food safety problems for college student education.