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YouTubeFood & Cooking

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.

18M
Avg. views
0.0%
Median engagement
141
Posts analyzed
-5%
Vs. last week
  1. #chicken

    #chicken

    2 posts in sample

    43M
    Avg. views
  2. #eating

    #eating

    6 posts in sample

    25M
    Avg. views
  3. #foodasmr

    #foodasmr

    15 posts in sample

    21M
    Avg. views
  4. #shortvideo

    #shortvideo

    5 posts in sample

    21M
    Avg. views
  5. #cooking

    #cooking

    44 posts in sample

    17M
    Avg. views
  6. #food

    #food

    51 posts in sample

    14M
    Avg. views
  7. #chinesefood

    #chinesefood

    2 posts in sample

    10M
    Avg. views
  8. #recipe

    #recipe

    56 posts in sample

    9.6M
    Avg. views
  9. #asmr

    #asmr

    8 posts in sample

    9.6M
    Avg. views
  10. #usa

    #usa

    2 posts in sample

    8.9M
    Avg. views
  11. #foodie

    #foodie

    4 posts in sample

    7.6M
    Avg. views
  12. #shorts

    #shorts

    32 posts in sample

    6.3M
    Avg. views
  13. #easyrecipe

    #easyrecipe

    16 posts in sample

    6M
    Avg. views
  14. #easyrecipes

    #easyrecipes

    3 posts in sample

    5.6M
    Avg. views
  15. #dinner

    #dinner

    5 posts in sample

    5.2M
    Avg. views
  16. #mealprepideas

    #mealprepideas

    3 posts in sample

    4.2M
    Avg. views
  17. #yummy

    #yummy

    2 posts in sample

    2.1M
    Avg. views
  18. #mealprep

    #mealprep

    11 posts in sample

    1.4M
    Avg. views
  19. #trending

    #trending

    3 posts in sample

    932K
    Avg. views
  20. #highprotein

    2 posts in sample

    904K
    Avg. views
  21. #viral

    #viral

    10 posts in sample

    465K
    Avg. views
  22. #krishna

    #krishna

    2 posts in sample

    164K
    Avg. views
  23. #janmashtami

    #janmashtami

    3 posts in sample

    83K
    Avg. views
  24. #easy

    #easy

    2 posts in sample

    78K
    Avg. views
  25. #yt

    #yt

    2 posts in sample

    68K
    Avg. views
questions

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.