Food influencers in the US: 64 Instagram creators, measured (2026)

This page lists 64 Instagram creators whose bio names the US 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 30, 2026 and September 28, 2026. The median creator here has 24,090 followers and an engagement rate of 1.25%, which is below the 2.55% median across the 150 lists in this series and ranks 149th of 150.

Food creators in the US by follower count

Nano and micro accounts tie as the largest groups, at 23 of 64 creators each. Among tiers with 5 or more creators, nano creators get the highest median engagement rate, 3.03%, against 1.09% for mid-tier creators, so a typical nano post draws 2.8 times the response per follower. Reach grows with size, and the median mid-tier creator's Reels get 37,572 views, against 1,613 for nano creators.

The 20 biggest food creators in the US

These are the largest accounts on the list, sorted by followers at our read. The biggest is 𝓒𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓪𝓶 with 1,653,481 followers and a 0.69% engagement rate.

18 high-engagement food creators in the US with 10K to 100K followers

These are the 18 creators with 10,000 to 100,000 followers and the highest engagement rates on the list. The median across all 23 creators in that range is 1.21%, and 5 of these 18 reach at least twice that. We also left out 3 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 the US post about

The most common profile category is Food and dining, on 7 accounts (11% of those with a category), followed by Food and cooking with 6. 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 the US, 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. 61 of the 64 creators have one.
5. These 64 creators were read between August 30, 2026 and September 28, 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: Fashion influencers in the US, Travel influencers in the US, Book influencers in the US, Influencers in the US, Fitness influencers in the US, Lifestyle influencers in the US. Related reading: Food influencers on Instagram, NYC influencers. For hand-picked lists with a recent post per creator, see micro and nano influencers.

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