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THE TOP 10 MOST POPULAR FOOD HASHTAGS ON INSTAGRAM IN 2025
The top 10 most popular food hashtags on Instagram in 2025 list. The best 10 hashtags for food bloggers, restaurants and chefs on Instagram.
Brought to you by Mau, a Senior Food Marketing Specialist at eDigital.
THE TOP 10 MOST POPULAR FOOD HASHTAGS ON INSTAGRAM IN 2025
Before you start using some of the below popular food hashtags on Instagram, let me tell you something you have probably been turning a blind eye to…
Instagram is not helping your business
- If you are lucky, the food videos you post on Instagram may be reaching 5% of your followers. This is a massive issue affecting thousands of marketers.
- You have been trying hard to build an audience on Instagram that you do not own.
- Yes, that’s right; you cannot transfer your hard-earned Instagram followers to your best CRM software.
- Your customer acquisition costs from Instagram ads are through the roof.
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THE TOP 10 FOOD HASHTAGS ON INSTAGRAM IN 2025
Our best Instagram virtual assistants have uncovered Instagram’s top 10 most popular food hashtags.
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10. #breakfast
#breakfast is one of the most popular food hashtags on Instagram featured in 118+ million posts
Related: #desayuno
9. #dinner
#dinner is one of the most popular food hashtags on Instagram featured in 129+ million posts
Related: #comida – #cena
⭐️ Most views today: the top healthy food hashtags on Instagram
8. #cake
#cake is one of the most popular food hashtags on Instagram featured in 137+ million posts
Related: #torta
#cake is also one of the top 25 most popular food hashtags on TikTok
Most shared article: the top 25 healthy food hashtags for Instagram
7. #delicious
#delicious is one of the most popular food hashtags on Instagram featured in 155+ million posts
Related: #deliciousfood
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6. #coffee
#coffee is one of the most popular food hashtags on Instagram featured in 177+ million posts
#coffee is also one of the top 25 most popular food hashtags on TikTok
Food marketers are reading the top 25 healthy food hashtags for Instagram
POPULAR FOOD INFLUENCERS ON INSTAGRAM
- Albert Niazhvinski (@albert_cancook) 2+ million followers on Instagram.
- Andy Cooks
- Grandbaby Cakes
- Preppy Kitchen‘s John Kanell and Jake Cohen
- Mike Greenfield of Pro Home Cooks
- Stephen Cusato of NotAnotherCookingShow
- Owen Han
- TheMoodyFoody
- Elyse Meyers
- Alan Chikin Chow
- CelinaSpookyBoo
- Brodie the Dood
- CodeMiko
Just updated: The top 25 most popular food hashtags on TikTok
5. #yummy
#yummy is one of the most popular food hashtags on Instagram featured in 206+ million posts
Related: #yum
#Yummy is also one of the top 25 most popular food hashtags on TikTok
Food marketers are also using some of the top 25 food hashtags on TikTok.
4. #instafood
#instafood is one of the most popular food hashtags on Instagram featured in 246+ million posts
Related: #foodstagram – #foodgram
⭐️ Most read today: The most popular vegan food hashtags on Instagram
3. #foodie
#foodie is one of the most popular food hashtags on Instagram featured in 263+ million posts
Related: #foodies – #foodiesofinstagram
#Foodie is also one of the top 25 most popular food hashtags on TikTok
⚡️ Trending this week: Food influencers have also been using some of the most popular vegan hashtags on Instagram to acquire new fans and build their food businesses.
2. #foodporn
#foodporn is one of the most popular food hashtags on Instagram featured in 312+ million posts
1. #food
#food is one of the most popular food hashtags on Instagram featured in 536+ million posts
Related: #foods – #alimento
No surprise the #food hashtag is the most popular food-related hashtag on Instagram.
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Tip: Some restaurants are using fake (faux) artificial plants as decor for their food/dish photography but this may send a message to customers that you may also be using fake or artificial ingredients in the preparation of your dishes. Keep your food photography natural and real. If you include a flower or a plant in your Instagram photography, then show real natural ones.
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“If lucky, Instagram is showing your food posts to 2% of your hard-earned followers. Invest in proven marketing strategies and activities that drive real sales in channels and assets you fully own”
Mau – senior digital marketing specialist at eDigital.
Restaurant managers and food business owners who are not offering junk food or soft drinks in their venues are contributing to making their clients and local communities healthier. Offering scientific-based information about the food you sell to your customers not only shows respect but will also delight customers who take pride in looking after themselves.
These actions will increase repeat visitation and customer loyalty. They will also decrease customer churn rate (Number of customers who visited you once and never come back).
When posting on social media, add hashtags that promote your commitment to healthy food such as:
#nonprocessed
#zerosugar
#nofat
#nosalt
#nopreservatives
#madelocally
#freshproduce
#nomsg
#noartificialflavours
#noartificialcolours
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Food creators are also reading the top 25 most popular travel hashtags for Instagram
Tip: Add hashtags to your Instagram Stories to have chances of being displayed on the Instagram explore page using the hashtag sticker (you can only add one hashtag) or use the text tool (you can add up to 10 hashtags), you can even hide them by placing a sticker on top of them or use the colour tool to make the hashtags invisible but still findable.
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No surprise food and travel are so connected! You go to a new city or town and you want to try the local produce. Do not miss adding some of the top 25 most popular Instagram travel hashtags
Popular food creators on Instagram:
- Albert Niazhvinski @albert_cancook 2.8 million followers.
- Andrew Rush @realchefrush 2.6 million followers.
- Andrew Rea @bingingwithbabish 1.1 million followers.
- Patrick Zeinali @patrickzeinali 0.9 million followers.
Conclusion
Popular food hashtags are an important way to expand your Instagram audience and get more reach. When you use a food hashtag, your post will appear on the page for that hashtag. If you use a hashtag on your Instagram Story, it could be included in the relevant hashtag Story, which also appears on the hashtag page.
eDigital can help you conceptualise, plan, develop, run and optimise successful food marketing campaigns that generate leads and sales for your food brand.
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- Email marketing. Dip sequence design and deployment.
- Conversion rate optimisation. Path to purchase analysis and optimisation.
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THE TOP 10 MOST POPULAR FOOD HASHTAGS FOR INSTAGRAM IN 2025
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