University students may be vulnerable to food insecurity (FI) due to lower purchasing power, increasing housing and food costs. Due to economic crisis affordability may be low. The purpose of this article is to review the food insecurity in university students. This is a mini review on a few papers, research and articles according to studies and research by various organizations, experts, scholars on food security in developed and developing countries. This review helps researchers to understand more fully food insecurity on university students. Most of the studies assessed the prevalence of food insecurity and associated factors among university students. Understanding the significant relationship between food security status and other factors may be useful in developing services for those in need. The prevalence of food insecurity was high among the university students. Most of the studies found that food insecurity may have adverse effects on student academic performance. There is significant room for future research in this area, from continued discussion of collected students and other expert people’s suggestions to reduce food insecurity.