IntelligentFood

About IntelligentFood

IntelligentFood is a Dutch food-sector company focused on turning unavoidable food side streams into value. It works with producers, traders, importers, retailers, and other food-chain partners that have surplus, by-products, or offcuts that would otherwise be wasted. The company positions itself as a practical circular-economy partner: it helps identify opportunities, connect supply and demand for residual streams, and develop new uses for materials that still have value.

Beyond valorising rest streams, IntelligentFood also combines food waste reduction with education and social impact. It runs projects with students and schools, organizes competitions and masterclasses, and operates the ResQstore, a social learning shop where food is rescued and sold at lower prices. In that sense, the company presents itself not only as a broker and product developer, but also as a connector between business, education, and community impact.

Core Values

• Waste reduction: The company’s central value is preventing the loss of natural resources by finding useful applications for food that would otherwise be discarded.
• Circular innovation: IntelligentFood emphasizes creativity, new business models, and practical innovation to transform residual streams into products, concepts, and opportunities.
• Collaboration: It repeatedly stresses working with students, businesses, chefs, schools, and local organizations to create solutions that no single party could build alone.
• Social impact: The company links food waste reduction to affordability, learning opportunities, and support for people and communities, especially through the ResQstore and its gift concepts.
• Sustainability in practice: IntelligentFood focuses on hands-on, workable solutions rather than abstract sustainability claims, aiming to make circular food systems commercially and socially viable.

Unique Aspects

• ResQstore social learning shop: IntelligentFood operates a neighborhood store where rescued food is sold cheaply while mbo students gain real-world retail and circular-economy experience.
• Strong education partnerships: The company runs recurring projects with Albeda, Zadkine, and Hogeschool Rotterdam, turning food waste into a learning platform for students and teachers.
• Open-innovation format: IntelligentFood organizes competitions, masterclasses, and project weeks in which students and partners develop new concepts from actual residual streams.
• Client-specific culinary development: It has developed bespoke products such as oils from smoked mackerel and eel filleting residues, and cookies from puff pastry side streams, showing a hands-on product-development capability.
• Broader social gifting concept: Its gift and Christmas offerings are positioned not just as sustainable products, but as items that can also support biodiversity, fair value distribution, and meaningful work for people distant from the labor market.