This paper studied the current research status and future research directions of the effect of high pressure processing (HPP) on packaging properties and reversibility of food packaging materials. This review illustrated the research status and development of HPP treatment in barrier property, thermal property, structural changes, reversible and other aspects. This review showed that in contrast to the research results on the effect of HPP on food quality, the results on packaging properties and structural changes of the food packaging materials had great differences and even contradictory in related researches, what′ s more, there were few studies on reversibility of packaging properties. With the development of researches on the effects of HPP treatment on packaging materials, there will be more and more deep studies on the reversible mechanism of packaging materials.