Intelligent food packaging is a new packaging technology which can sense changes in food quality and give feedback to customers. The work aims to summarize the research application progress of electrospun nanofibers in intelligent food packaging, to provide reference for the future development and application of intelligent packaging technology. The principle of electrospinning device and its influencing factors as well as the examples of various bio-based food packaging materials applicable to electrospinning technology were introduced. Finally, the latest progress of electrospinning technology in different intelligent packaging technologies was summarized and the advantages of electrospinning technology were analyzed. The advantages of electrospinning nanofibers with high porosity, large specific surface area, flexible material selection, and non-thermal processes make it promising for research on integrated applications with intelligent packaging to improve the stability and sensitivity of intelligent packaging films and further improve the properties of intelligent packaging films.