Background China boasts a long-standing history of the cured aquatic products industry paired with broad market demand. However traditional curing technologies suffer from prolonged processing cycles and inadequate quality control, which impedes the advancement of eco-friendly processing and quality improvement within the industry. Accordingly, high-efficiency, intelligent and environmentally benign auxiliary curing technologies have emerged as core research focus in this research area.

Objective This paper aims to systematically sort out the current research progress of curing technologies for aquatic products, summarize the technological characteristics of traditional curing technologies, and emphatically analyze the research status and application effects of various novel auxiliary curing technologies, so as to provide theoretical basis and technical references for process optimization, quality regulation and industrial green upgrading of aquatic product curing. Progress A technical system for curing technologies has been formed for aquatic product processing, with traditional curing technologies as the foundation, novel auxiliary curing technologies as the core innovation carrier, and composite synergistic curing technologies as the future development orientation. Though maturely developed, traditional curing technologies have obvious limitations in practical production, such as low production efficiency and excessive energy consumption, etc. Relying on processing approaches such as physical field treatment and enzymatic modification, novel auxiliary curing technologies including vacuum tumbling, ultra-high pressure, ultrasound, pulsed electric field and high-voltage electrostatic field, as well as composite synergistic curing technologies integrating multiple coupled technologies, can effectively overcome the drawbacks of conventional processes, and simultaneously improve curing efficiency and product quality.

Conclusion Aquatic product curing technologies keep evolving with continuous innovation to realize process optimization and quality improvement. Both novel auxiliary curing technologies and composite synergistic approaches exhibit great industrial application potential. Moving forward, further research on intelligent upgrading of curing technologies and the exploitation of green processing routes is urgently needed to break through the bottlenecks of conventional processing technologies and drive the aquatic curing industry toward standardized, high-efficiency, eco-friendly and high-quality sustainable development.