#food
The most viral posts using #food across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.
We track 13017 posts using #food across 9 networks, carrying 713.7M engagement between them — an average of 54.8K per post.
It is used most on Bluesky: 7001 of the 13017 posts we hold, 54% of the total.
Where it performs hardest per post, though, is Instagram, averaging 457.9K — so the tag is posted most in one place and lands best in another, which is exactly the difference worth knowing before choosing where to use it.
Ranking comes from the posts themselves rather than from how often the tag appears, and it is recalculated as new posts are collected. How we measure this →
Top #food posts ALL NETWORKS
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Most viral #food on Bluesky
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Most viral #food on Douyin
See all 4.6K Douyin posts and track new ones live.
Most viral #food on TikTok
See all 907 TikTok posts and track new ones live.
Most viral #food on Instagram
See all 350 Instagram posts and track new ones live.
Most viral #food on Mastodon
See all 71 Mastodon posts and track new ones live.
Most viral #food on Tumblr
See all 56 Tumblr posts and track new ones live.
Most viral #food on Pinterest
See all 52 Pinterest posts and track new ones live.
Most viral #food on X / Twitter
See all 16 X / Twitter posts and track new ones live.
Most viral #food on Facebook
#food in five questions
What is #food and where is it used?
A hashtag with 13K posts tracked by ViralHunt across 9 networks, mostly on Bluesky (7K posts). Those posts add up to 713.7M engagement, about 54.8K per post.
Where does #food perform best?
On Instagram: 457.9K engagement per post on average, even though it is posted more on Bluesky. It is used in one place and works better in another.
When do people post with #food?
Mostly on Thursdays, around 09:00 UTC: 25% of the 12.8K dated posts fall in the three hours around that time. Posting when the tag is active is posting when someone is reading it.
Who uses #food most?
baderalsafar (TikTok, 470 posts), pizza.wsocial.eu (Bluesky, 279 posts), randomfoodphotos.bsky.social (Bluesky, 197 posts), paulmac.bsky.social (Bluesky, 185 posts), easyyummy.bsky.social (Bluesky, 170 posts), bayashi.tiktok (TikTok, 44 posts).
Which hashtags go with #food?
Other tags with volume on the same networks: #birds, #indiemusic, #retrogaming, #indiedev, #travel, #anime.
When people post with #food
Hour of day and day of the week of the 12.8K dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.
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