Food influencers in India: 123 Instagram creators, measured (2026)

This page lists 123 Instagram creators whose bio names India and who post mostly about food, with the follower count, engagement rate and median Reel views we measured for each one. Virev's crawler read their profiles and recent posts between August 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026. The median creator here has 80,083 followers and an engagement rate of 1.92%, which is below the 2.55% median across the 150 lists in this series and ranks 127th of 150.

Food creators in India by follower count

Mid-tier accounts (100K to 1M followers) are the largest group, at 49 of 123 creators, or 40%. Among tiers with 5 or more creators, nano creators get the highest median engagement rate, 6.43%, against 1.17% for mid-tier creators, so a typical nano post draws 5.5 times the response per follower. Reach grows with size, and the median mid-tier creator's Reels get 107,122 views, against 4,104 for nano creators.

The 20 biggest food creators in India

These are the largest accounts on the list, sorted by followers at our read. The biggest is Ranveer Brar with 4,663,340 followers and a 1.03% engagement rate.

20 high-engagement food creators in India with 10K to 100K followers

These are the 20 creators with 10,000 to 100,000 followers and the highest engagement rates on the list. The median across all 47 creators in that range is 2.00%, and 12 of these 20 reach at least twice that. We also left out 2 creators with no measured Reel views, or whose average likes and comments beat their median Reel views, since we could not check their rate against reach. A high rate can also come from comment prompts, so open a few recent posts before you reach out.

What food creators in India post about

The most common profile category is Food and cooking, on 19 accounts (15% of those with a category), followed by Food and recipe content with 9. The category is the one the creator or Virev's profile reader set, so treat it as a starting filter.

How we built this list

1. We started from 39,669 individual Instagram creators with at least 1,000 followers and 6 measured posts, read by Virev's crawler between August 18 and October 7, 2026. Brands, media pages and businesses are not on the list.
2. A creator is on this page when their Instagram bio or display name names India, such as a city, a region or a flag, and the country in their Virev profile does not name another country. We removed accounts that name the place only inside another account's handle, an email address, or a team or event name, such as a baseball club or a marathon.
3. The engagement rate is average likes plus comments on the 6 to 12 most recent feed posts, divided by followers at the read.
4. Median Reel views is the median play count of the creator's last 12 Reels, and it shows n/a when fewer than 3 Reels had a play count. 118 of the 123 creators have one.
5. These 123 creators were read between August 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026, and follower counts move after that, so check the live profile before you send an offer.
6. The page shows public profile numbers only, with no emails or phone numbers.

More creator lists

Lists built the same way: Travel influencers in India, Influencers in India, Beauty influencers in India, Fitness influencers in India, Lifestyle influencers in India, Fashion influencers in India. Related reading: Food influencers on Instagram. For hand-picked lists with a recent post per creator, see influencers in NYC and micro and nano influencers.

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