#food on Instagram: what the recent tab actually returns
A sample of 72 recent posts read on 6 September 2026, counted and summarised. No posts are republished here — only what the numbers say about them.
The rate and the span belong together. 72 posts covered 33.2 hours, so this tag turns over quickly.
Engagement on the sampled posts
| Count | Lowest | Median | Highest | Posts reporting it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Likes | 0 | 0 | 119 | 71 of 72 |
| Comments | 0 | 0 | 4 | 71 of 72 |
| Hashtags in the caption | 0 | 4 | 24 | 72 of 72 |
A count Instagram did not return is left out rather than counted as zero, which is why the last column is there. 1 of 72 sampled posts carried no caption at all.
Tags that travel with #food
Out of 72 sampled captions. The number on each is how many of those posts carried it.
Tags measured on this site are links; the rest are shown as they were found.
What this page is, and is not
It is a count of one sample, read on 6 September 2026 and not updated since. Instagram's recent tab moves, so treat it as a reading rather than a constant. Nothing here is a projection.
It holds no posts. No caption, username, post link or image from the sample is stored or published — the sample was counted and dropped. That is the same thing the actor does with your runs: it writes to your dataset and keeps nothing.