Top YouTube Food & Cooking Hashtags
This week, ContentScout sampled 129 public YouTube posts in the Food and Cooking niche. The average views across the sample are 7,745,761, up from 6,636,650 in the previous run. The median engagement rate sits at 1.40 percent.
ContentScout's own analysis: we sample real public posts matching food & cooking search terms on YouTube 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.
#eating
3 posts in sample
- 22M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#asmr
2 posts in sample
- 21M
- Avg. views
- 1.6%
- Engagement
#reels
2 posts in sample
- 19M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#foodasmr
2 posts in sample
- 18M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#shortsfeed
4 posts in sample
- 13M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#shorts
35 posts in sample
- 11M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#bread
2 posts in sample
- 11M
- Avg. views
- 0.8%
- Engagement
#viralvideo
7 posts in sample
- 8.4M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#trending
10 posts in sample
- 7.6M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#dinner
3 posts in sample
- 6.3M
- Avg. views
- 1.5%
- Engagement
#easyrecipe
19 posts in sample
- 6.3M
- Avg. views
- 1.5%
- Engagement
#food
36 posts in sample
- 5.4M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#viral
13 posts in sample
- 4.4M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#usa
2 posts in sample
- 3.5M
- Avg. views
- 5.7%
- Engagement
#cooking
22 posts in sample
- 3.5M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#recipe
52 posts in sample
- 3M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#dessert
3 posts in sample
- 2M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#highprotein
4 posts in sample
- 2M
- Avg. views
- 1.6%
- Engagement
#baking
3 posts in sample
- 1.8M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#mealprepideas
4 posts in sample
- 1.3M
- Avg. views
- 3.5%
- Engagement
#mealprep
10 posts in sample
- 1.3M
- Avg. views
- 4.6%
- Engagement
#snacks
8 posts in sample
- 395K
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#healthy
2 posts in sample
- 395K
- Avg. views
- 0.8%
- Engagement
#protein
2 posts in sample
- 239K
- Avg. views
- 0.8%
- Engagement
#recipes
2 posts in sample
- 217K
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
Questions, answered.
How is this data measured?+
ContentScout reads social data from real public posts sampled this week and calculates average views and median engagement rates for each hashtag.
Which hashtag has the highest average views?+
Hashtag eating leads the ranking with an average of 21,900,000 views across 3 posts in the sample, though its median engagement rate is 0.00 percent.
Should I use all of these hashtags at once?+
No. A hashtag's average views describe the posts using it and do not guarantee results for your own content.
Which hashtags appear most frequently in the sample?+
Hashtag recipe appears on 52 posts, hashtag food appears on 36 posts, and hashtag shorts appears on 35 posts.
Which hashtag has the highest engagement rate in the data?+
Hashtag usa has the highest median engagement rate at 5.73 percent across 2 posts, with an average of 3,513,216 views.
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