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Food influencers in Texas: 67 Instagram creators, measured (2026)

67 Instagram food creators whose bio names Texas, each with followers, engagement rate and Reel views we measured. The median one has 11.0K followers and a 1.97% engagement rate.

This page lists 67 Instagram creators whose bio names Texas 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 September 1, 2026 and September 26, 2026. The median creator here has 10,957 followers and an engagement rate of 1.97%, which is below the 2.55% median across the 150 lists in this series and ranks 125th of 150.

67

Creators measured

Individual Instagram creators with 1,000+ followers and 6+ recent posts.

11.0K

Median followers

Half of the creators on this page have more, half fewer.

1.97%

Median engagement rate

Average likes plus comments per post, divided by followers.

Food creators in Texas by follower count

Nano accounts (1K to 10K followers) are the largest group, at 30 of 67 creators, or 45%. Nano creators get the highest median engagement rate, 2.77%, against 0.84% for mid-tier creators, so a typical nano post draws 3.3 times the response per follower. Reach grows with size, and the median mid-tier creator's Reels get 36,628 views, against 2,650 for nano creators.

FollowersCreatorsMedian engagement rateMedian Reel views
Nano (1K to 10K)302.77%2,650
Micro (10K to 100K)262.11%7,361
Mid-tier (100K to 1M)110.84%36,628

The 20 biggest food creators in Texas

These are the largest accounts on the list, sorted by followers at our read. The biggest is Kristen Sellentin with 456,373 followers and a 0.50% engagement rate.

CreatorFollowersEngagement rateMedian Reel viewsCategory
Kristen Sellentin456K0.50%25.5KFood and beverage
Liz Heart398K0.68%72.7KFood and lifestyle
Ebony Cierra | Keto + Low Carb381K1.71%103KKeto and low-carb food recipes
Shawn Singh256K0.91%83.3KFood and restaurant reviews
Shannon Cairns239K0.84%56.9KFrugal family food and meal-prep content
Adrian Verde171K0.70%43.2KHouston food and restaurant discovery
Jill Stout | Food and Travel147K0.29%3.6KFood and dining
Esmeralda Obispo | Houston & Pasadena Foodie120K1.64%36.6KFood and recipes
Paige Faustini, RD114K1.38%7.5KNutrition and healthy recipes
Joshua Hunt109K0.17%5.6KOutdoor cooking and grilling
Anthony | Texas Food & Travel Blogger102K1.53%30.8KFood and travel
Chelsea95.0K2.91%83.6KFood and beverage
@kellysantacruz155.0K2.90%4.0KFood and restaurant promotion
Backyard Eats -Antonio Tapia44.5K0.23%2.0KFood and cooking
Vina | Dallas Creator42.7K1.10%6.8KFood and dining
VICHEKA | Houston food & lifestyle42.7K2.21%22.1KHouston food and lifestyle
Kelly | Dallas Food & Travel34.2K0.78%8.1KFood and travel
Breanna Ticarat | Knead the Recipe | Easy Dinners and Desserts32.0K10.63%10.4KFood and recipes
IVANNA Mendoza | RGV Blogger29.3K1.67%9.4KFood blogging
Kandace | Houston Food & Lifestyle29.2K2.72%12.9KHouston food and lifestyle

16 high-engagement food creators in Texas with 10K to 100K followers

These are the 16 creators with 10,000 to 100,000 followers and the highest engagement rates on the list. The median across all 26 creators in that range is 2.11%, and 4 of these 16 reach at least twice that. We also left out one creator with no measured Reel views, or whose average likes and comments beat their median Reel views, since we could not check that rate against reach. A high rate can also come from comment prompts, so open a few recent posts before you reach out.

CreatorFollowersEngagement rateMedian Reel viewsCategory
Meagan Tape | HTX Foodie11.5K11.08%5.6KFood and dining
Nahima Ortega Houston Foodie | Houston Hot Spots | Cocktails12.1K6.88%3.4KHouston food, nightlife, and local experiences
LISA | Foodie 馃珓12.0K6.78%22.4KFood and dining
馃Brigie馃27.2K6.50%35.7KTexas barbecue and smoked-meat cooking
jillian turpin10.5K4.09%9.3Kfood and lifestyle
Xandra | food and lifestyle blogger19.8K2.88%11.8KFood and lifestyle
Richard Pearse10.4K2.26%5.1KBarbecue and smoked-meat food content
Delicious Recipes15.4K2.01%27.7KFood and recipes
Paige | Dallas Food Blogger15.6K1.97%5.3KFood and dining
Morgan Weeks | Cook & Creator10.1K1.62%3.3KCulinary
Chynna Gutierrez | San Antonio Influencer26.1K1.22%5.6KFood and local lifestyle influencing
Halal Foodgram | Salim&Safoora鉂わ笍 | Dallas Halal Food Influencer23.5K1.21%9.9KHalal food and restaurant reviews
Houston Chef19.9K0.81%3.7KHouston food and restaurant discovery
Athena | Content Creator11.0K0.55%316Food and beverage
Nigerian Food Dallas | Eugins Kitchen19.3K0.47%1.1KNigerian food and culinary education
Zain's Halal Reviews | Houston's OG Halal Food Blogger21.4K0.32%4.9KHalal food reviews

What food creators in Texas post about

The most common profile category is Food and dining, on 10 accounts (15% of those with a category), followed by Houston food and restaurant discovery with 5. The category is the one the creator or Virev's profile reader set, so treat it as a starting filter.

Instagram categoryCreatorsMedian engagement rate
Food and dining102.15%
Houston food and restaurant discovery51.51%
Food and lifestyle411.04%
Food and recipes42.12%
Food and beverage30.55%
Food and travel31.53%
Food and restaurant reviews20.78%
Houston food and lifestyle22.46%

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 Texas, 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. 64 of the 67 creators have one.
  5. These 67 creators were read between September 1, 2026 and September 26, 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 Texas, Influencers in Texas, Lifestyle influencers in Texas, Lifestyle influencers in Dallas, Influencers in the US, Influencers in Dallas. Related reading: Food influencers on Instagram, NYC influencers. For hand-picked lists with a recent post per creator, see micro and nano influencers.

Find more food creators in Texas

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