Top YouTube Hashtags for Food and Cooking Posts
This week, ContentScout sampled 141 public Food and Cooking posts on YouTube. Average views across the sample sit at 17,788,694, down from 18,690,375 in the previous run. The median engagement rate for these posts is 0.00 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.

#chicken
2 posts in sample
- 43M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#eating
6 posts in sample
- 25M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#foodasmr
15 posts in sample
- 21M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#shortvideo
5 posts in sample
- 21M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#cooking
44 posts in sample
- 17M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#food
51 posts in sample
- 14M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#chinesefood
2 posts in sample
- 10M
- Avg. views
- 0.3%
- Engagement

#recipe
56 posts in sample
- 9.6M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#asmr
8 posts in sample
- 9.6M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#usa
2 posts in sample
- 8.9M
- Avg. views
- 2.9%
- Engagement

#foodie
4 posts in sample
- 7.6M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#shorts
32 posts in sample
- 6.3M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#easyrecipe
16 posts in sample
- 6M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#easyrecipes
3 posts in sample
- 5.6M
- Avg. views
- 5.7%
- Engagement

#dinner
5 posts in sample
- 5.2M
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#mealprepideas
3 posts in sample
- 4.2M
- Avg. views
- 3.2%
- Engagement

#yummy
2 posts in sample
- 2.1M
- Avg. views
- 1.5%
- Engagement

#mealprep
11 posts in sample
- 1.4M
- Avg. views
- 4.0%
- Engagement

#trending
3 posts in sample
- 932K
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
#highprotein
2 posts in sample
- 904K
- Avg. views
- 6.4%
- Engagement

#viral
10 posts in sample
- 465K
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#krishna
2 posts in sample
- 164K
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#janmashtami
3 posts in sample
- 83K
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement

#easy
2 posts in sample
- 78K
- Avg. views
- 1.5%
- Engagement

#yt
2 posts in sample
- 68K
- Avg. views
- 0.0%
- Engagement
Questions, answered.
How is this data measured?+
ContentScout reads social data from 141 public YouTube posts in the Food and Cooking niche this week and ranks the hashtags using its own scoring system.
Which hashtag has the highest average views?+
#chicken leads the ranking with an average of 43,384,780 views across 2 posts in the sample.
Which hashtag appears on the most posts?+
#recipe appears on 56 posts in the sample, with an average of 9,642,906 views.
Do high average views guarantee success for a hashtag?+
No. A hashtag's average views describe the performance of the posts using it in the sample, not a guarantee of your results. Do not use all of them at once.
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