Abstract:Soybean is a kind of plant food that contains many nutrients. Significant increase in the content of vitamin C, GABA and isoflavones, and significant decreases in the content of anti-nutritional factors (such as fatty acid oxidase, phytic acid and phytohemagglutinin) have been observed during the process of soybean germination. Therefore, germination can be used as an important method to improve the nutritional value of soybean and its products. In this paper, the effect of germination on the contents of basic nutrients, anti-nutritional factors, and bioactive substances in soybean during the process of germination was introduced, and the application of soybean germination technology has been forecasted in order to clear the rules of material changes during the process of soybean germination, and lay a foundation for the scientific research and application in the future.