Display omitted •Various types of food wastes are generated from agricultural production to consumption reviewed.•Food wastes can be valorized by recovery, recycling and reusing.•Food wastes can be integrated to myco-biorefinery to obtain valuable products.•Food waste bioconversion helps waste management and value addition. Increases in population and urbanization leads to generation of a large amount of food waste (FW) and its effective waste management is a major concern. But putrescible nature and high moisture content is a major limiting factor for cost effective FW valorization. Bioconversion of FW for the production of value added products is an eco-friendly and economically viable strategy for addressing these issues. Targeting on production of multiple products will solve these issues to greater extent. This article provides an overview of bioconversion of FW to different value added products.