Food texture detection is the key of the study of food quality and safety. Based on the bionic chewing platform, the detection system for viscoelastic food was developed. Firstly the kinematics analysis and verified by ADAMS simulation; Secondly, the motion control, real-time data acquisition, data analysis and processing of the bionic chewing platform were realized by using LABVIEW as the host computer, so as to realize the bionic detection and evaluation of food texture quality; Finally, the effectiveness of the food texture bionic detection system was verified by the comparative study between the food texture detection system developed in this paper and the existing food texture detection instruments. The results show that the detection system can be applied to the texture detection of viscoelastic food.