The Upcycling Community
From side stream to value stream
The Upcycling Community is an international network of organisations committed to scaling upcycled food and ingredients. We bring together businesses, innovators, researchers and public stakeholders from across the food value chain to accelerate collaboration, unlock innovation and create the conditions needed for widespread market adoption.
Through knowledge sharing, matchmaking, collaborative initiatives and innovation projects, we help organisations turn ambition into action. Together, we address barriers to adoption, strengthen cross value chain collaboration and unlock new opportunities for suitable side streams to be transformed into valuable food ingredients and products for human consumption.
Join the movement. Scale with impact.
Scaling upcycled food and ingredients requires more than innovation alone. It requires greater awareness, supportive market conditions and collaboration across the value chain. The Upcycling Community brings organisations together to collectively address these challenges and accelerate market adoption.
As a partner of The Upcycling Community, you gain access to:
• Upcycling specific knowledge, market insights and learning opportunities
• Participation in collaborative initiatives and projects
• Tailored matchmaking across the food value chain
• Upcycling related events and networking opportunities
Join a growing network of organisations working to make upcycled food and ingredients the new normal.
Learn more about challenges, barriers & opportunities in upcycling in the Position Paper Upcycled Foods & Ingredients.
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The Global Food Upcycling Map
Whether you’re sourcing side streams, transforming them into high-value ingredients, or bringing upcycled products to market. You can’t do it alone. The Global Food Upcycling Map is your gateway to the upcycling ecosystem.
From ingredient producers to technology providers, food brands to logistics partners, see instantly who’s doing what, and where, making collaboration easier than ever. The Global Food Upcycling Map helps you discover organisations across the entire value chain. Explore who’s doing what and where, connect with potential partners, and make sure your own organisation is on the map too.
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Initiatives
UPcycled4Food Initiative
Relevant for
Upcycling
Upcycled products and ingredients should be widely adopted by food manufacturers, on supermarket shelves and food service offerings. That’s the ambition of the new Upcycled4Food Initiative, launched by Foodvalley’s Upcycling Community.
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Upcycled Food and Ingredients Position Paper
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Upcycling
Foodvalley is working with Upcycling Community partners and other stakeholders on a position paper on Upcycled Food and Ingredients. The position paper will seek alignment between various stakeholders on the definition of upcycled food and ingredients, their attributed values, and how these should be communicated in the industry — all the way up to the consumer.
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Global Food Upcycling Map
Relevant for
Upcycling
The Global Food Upcycling Map shows instantly who’s doing what and where in the food upcycling ecosystem.
Read morePractical Guide for Reformulation and Innovation
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Food & HealthProtein TransitionUpcycling
The journey to healthier food options can be challenging. To collectively tackle barriers to limited R&D access and a fixed (technological) mindset, we created a Practical Guide for Reformulation and Innovation.
Read moreSME Innovation voucher
Accelerate your innovation with the SME Innovation Voucher. For many startups and scale-ups, the step from laboratory research to commercially viable products is a critical but challenging phase. Scaling often requires access to advanced pilot, demo or test facilities, specialised equipment and technical expertise; resources that are typically costly and difficult to access independently.
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