Below you will find quirky and interesting food searches for this week, in addition to the top searched recipes for the week. They are based on national data from Yahoo!.
King Cakes: Fat Tuesday is next week and people are buzzing over the famous King Cakes, a cake with a small trinket inside. “King Cake recipes” searches are up 575% this month on Yahoo! and searches for “King Cake” are up 213%. Of the searches for “King Cakes” this month on Yahoo!, 67% are coming from women. Top states searching for “King Cakes” this month on Yahoo! include: Louisiana, Texas, Maryland, Tennessee, and Florida.
Lobster Love: This week on Yahoo!, searches reveal a love of all things lobster. “How to cook lobster tails” searches this week on Yahoo! are up 2,641% and searches for “cooking frozen lobster tails” are up 1,504%. Also spiking this week on Yahoo!: “lobster recipes” (searches are up 972%), “lobster bisque” (searches are up 160%), “Maine lobster harvest,” “lobster macaroni and cheese,” “how to grill lobster tails,” and “lobster ravioli.”
National Grapefruit Month: February is National Grapefruit Month, and the healthy fruit has people looking up ways to leverage it in their day-to-day lives. Searches for “grapefruit diet” and “grapefruit diet menu” are spiking this month on Yahoo, with 48% of searches for “grapefruit diet” coming from people ages 24-55. Additional grapefruit searches this month on Yahoo! include: “benefits of grapefruit,” “calories in grapefruit,” “grapefruit and medication,” “grapefruit recipes,” “grapefruit margarita,” and “how to eat a grapefruit?.”
Great American Pie Month: February is Great American Pie Month, and although the best pie is a matter of preference, we can tell you that the top searched pie this month on Yahoo! is the cream pie. Although the cream pie may come in at number one on the list of top searched pies on Yahoo!, there are many other pies that are piquing peoples interest this month, too. Some of the most searched pies this month on Yahoo! include:
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Shepherd’s pie
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Mud pie
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Chicken pot pie
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Lemon meringue pie
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Apple pie
According to Yahoo!, the top spiking recipe searches in the past 7 days are:
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Chicken recipes
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Meatloaf recipes
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Crockpot recipes
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Chili recipes
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Banana bread recipes
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Valentine’s Day recipes
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Healthy recipes
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Soup recipes
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Sugar cookie recipes
What are you searching for? Let us know!
