How is this data measured?

ContentScout reads social data from 66 public Instagram posts sampled this week in the Food and Recipes niche. It calculates the average views, median engagement rate, and ranking for each hashtag based on its own scoring method.

Should I use all of these hashtags at once?

No. The data lists individual hashtag metrics from separate posts. It does not mean you should paste all twenty tags onto a single post.

Do these view counts guarantee my post will get those numbers?

No. A tag's average views describe the performance of the specific posts using it in the sample. They are not a guarantee of your own reach.

Which hashtags appear most frequently in the sample?

Easyrecipes appears on 20 posts. Dinner appears on 11 posts. Dinnerideas, foodreels, and easyrecipe each appear on 10 posts.

Which hashtag has the highest average views?

Recipevideo leads the ranking with 1874709 average views across 2 posts, followed by homemade with 1861605 average views across 3 posts.

InstagramFood & RecipesUpdated November 13, 2026

Top Instagram Hashtags for Food and Recipes

This page shows the hashtags used on 66 public Instagram posts sampled this week in the Food and Recipes niche. Average views across the sample are 317074, up from 289064 in the previous run. The median engagement rate for these posts is 7.33 percent. Check the ranking below to see individual tag metrics.

ContentScout's own analysis: we sample real public posts matching food & recipes search terms on Instagram and score them by how much engagement they're getting relative to how recently they were posted. Hashtags are ranked by the average views of the posts using them, not by how often they appear. The numbers describe those posts, they don't promise results.

avg. views

317K

317,074 per post

median engagement

7.3%

7.33% exact

posts analyzed

public, from this week

vs. last week

+10%

in average views