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What's the secret sauce for recipe success on Pinterest? This infographic explores what pinners prefer when saving recipes to their boards.

Christine Kapperman, Senior Content Director

April 3, 2013

1 Min Read
Social-able: Cook up recipe success on Pinterest

Recipe sharing—in store and online—makes a lot of sense for natural foods markets striving to educate and engage their customers in healthful living.

But what succeeds on the food-obsessed Pinterest? This infographic from Feastie Analytics offers some clues. It explores the courses, dishes and ingredients that spread virtually and the best times to post your content. It also addresses how photo size adds up.

Top viral courses include appetizers, beverages (we’re assuming with alcohol mixed in) and, oddly, sandwiches. And while fudge and cheesecake are no-brainers when it comes to popular dishes, the high ranking for pretzels and enchiladas is perplexing.

But there’s hope for finding pinning success with popular (and healthy) recipes by including top ingredients such as stevia (which fills the No. 1 spot), avocado, chicken, quinoa and black beans.  (You’ll have to check out the graphic below for other unsurprising top ingredients.)

We’d love to hear about your Pinterest successes below.

Infographic: How to Make Your Recipe Go Viral on PinterestSource: Feastie Analytics

About the Author(s)

Christine Kapperman

Senior Content Director, New Hope Network

As the senior content director at New Hope Network, Christine Kapperman combines her 20-year journalism background with her passion for business to cover the natural products industry for newhope.com and Natural Foods Merchandiser magazine. She also led content at worldteanews.com. She loves tracking (and tasting) trends as she shares what’s next to show up in cups, plates and in pantries across the United States.

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