Objective Preliminary establish the administration and management protocol for plant material novel food standards. Methods The announcements for plant novel food (the original new resource food) approved in 2008-2017 by national health and family planning commission were analyzed. The Chinese name, Latin name, source of plant species, edible parts, cultivation method, range of application, consumption recommendation, unsuitable population and quality specification requirements were compared and analyzed. The current problems during the practice were summarize, and the solution was put forward. Results The current plant novel food announcement had some practical issues, such as the consistancy of format and description language, the intelligibility on the food safety indicators, the applicability, and etc. Conclusion This paper advises the government to improve the content of plant novel food announcement and put forward some suggestions on the standards procedures, methods and technical contents. To improve the technical indicators for the plant novel food material, standard review system is needed.