Starch, as a cheap and renewable biological material, has been widely used in the chemical industry, oil drilling, and other fields. However, there are still some shortcomings in natural starch, which often needs to be modified by some methods. The development and application of modified starch have attracted much attention. The use of low-temperature plasma methods to modify starch has gradually attracted widespread attention because there is no chemical impurity residue. DBD is a type of discharge that produces low temperature plasma. At normal temperature and pressure, plasma can be generated in a DBD reactor which uses air as discharge gas and adopts various electrode structures such as wire-column and plate-plate. The high-energy electrons, reactive nitrogen, and reactive oxygen species generated in the discharge can break chemical bonds when they act on the surface of biological materials, and then change the surface topography and physical and chemical properties of the materials.