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Food News!. A subreddit dedicated to food news. Founded 2010 · 22.5K members

22.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 14.9K upvotes, which works out to 675 per 1,000 members.

675peak upvotes per 1,000 members
22.1Kmembers
14.9Kbest post
870most comments
340posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

76%
Link 76% Image 7% Video 6% Text 6% Question 3% Gallery 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

turns out if you eliminate all quality control from food production the quality will in fact go down precipitously

↑ 14.9K 💬 329 image 2026

Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak

↑ 7.9K 💬 93 link 2026

Tyson Foods closes beef plants in Illinois, Utah, and Washington, cutting thousands of jobs

↑ 5.7K 💬 870 video 2026

American shoppers are so rattled by surging FDA recalls that 67% now avoid a whole food category after just one notice

↑ 4.5K 💬 265 link 2026

Now Chipotle is rocked by food poisoning outbreak as more than 110 diners fall ill after eating jalapeños tainted with salmonella

↑ 4.1K 💬 214 link 2026

Trump’s EPA makes it legal for farms to use sewer sludge on food crops

↑ 4K 💬 194 video 2026

Taylor Farms Visited White House Before Getting Outbreak Reprieve

↑ 4K 💬 64 link 2026

EXPOSED: Taylor Farms, The Company Behind The Cyclospora Outbreak Spreading Through U.S Grocery Lettuce, Is Also Linked To Forced Prison Labor In Ari…

↑ 4K 💬 105 link 2026

FDA Recalls as of 08/21/26

↑ 3.6K 💬 143 image 2026

Trump announces he will eliminate regulations on meat & produce processing amid multiple food-borne illness outbreaks

↑ 3.5K 💬 705 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Foodnews, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Foodnews?
r/Foodnews ("Food News!") describes itself this way: A subreddit dedicated to food news. It was founded in 2010 and has 22.5K members.
How many members does r/Foodnews have?
r/Foodnews has about 22.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 340 of its posts; the biggest reached 14.9K upvotes, which is 675 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Foodnews?
"turns out if you eliminate all quality control from food production the quality will in fact go down precipitously" reached 14.9K upvotes and 329 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Foodnews.
What subreddits are similar to r/Foodnews?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/Foodnews?
Of the posts we hold, 76% are link posts and 7% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Foodnews?
Across 340 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 01:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (1.7K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 11:00 UTC (1.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Foodnews?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Foodnews has 2.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 6 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Foodnews, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.