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Times are tough and a little crazy! A place to discuss if things are safe to eat or not. Post a pic, add some information via a top-level comment and see what others think about your food being safe to eat or not! (Eat at your own risk!) Founded 2022 · 85.4K members

83.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 10.9K upvotes, which works out to 130 per 1,000 members.

130peak upvotes per 1,000 members
83.9Kmembers
10.9Kbest post
4.6Kmost comments
101posts 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.

54% 43%
Image 54% Gallery 43% Video 3%

The topics it labels

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

Left in car overnight still ok?

↑ 10.9K 💬 4.6K image 2026

I’m was traveling to the America and ate this wrapped pastry, After it tasted stale I checked the label. I don’t really understand it but does this m…

↑ 10.4K 💬 1.4K image 2026

Cat nibbled on $20 chicken 😑

↑ 8.3K 💬 1.1K image 2026

Sealed 100 year old cough syrup

↑ 6.8K 💬 656 image 2026

I left some chickpeas in water overnight but now they have a lot of bunch of foam at the top. It smells kind of fermented.

↑ 6.2K 💬 359 image 2026

Took a giant swig of this aloe juice before noticing the mysterious white orb inside. How cooked am I

↑ 5.9K 💬 625 image 2026

am i going to meet my maker?

↑ 5.8K 💬 396 gallery 2026

Is this egg yolk edible

↑ 5.5K 💬 1.4K gallery 2026

Rainbow beef, is this edible?

↑ 4.6K 💬 652 gallery 2026

A ham as old as I am

↑ 3.9K 💬 517 image 2026

Communities its size

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r/isthissafetoeat, in numbers

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What is r/isthissafetoeat?
r/isthissafetoeat describes itself this way: Times are tough and a little crazy! A place to discuss if things are safe to eat or not. Post a pic, add some information via a top-level comment and see what others think about your food being safe to eat or not! (Eat at your own risk!). It was founded in 2022 and has 85.4K members.
How many members does r/isthissafetoeat have?
r/isthissafetoeat has about 83.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 101 of its posts; the biggest reached 10.9K upvotes, which is 130 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/isthissafetoeat?
"Left in car overnight still ok?" reached 10.9K upvotes and 4.6K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/isthissafetoeat.
What subreddits are similar to r/isthissafetoeat?
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/isthissafetoeat?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are image posts and 43% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/isthissafetoeat?
Across 101 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes), Friday at 19:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 23:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/isthissafetoeat?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/isthissafetoeat has 2.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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