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arxiv: 2502.07377 · v2 · pith:5JXVLP76new · submitted 2025-02-11 · 💻 cs.SI · cs.CY

Reddit's Appetite: Predicting User Engagement with Nutritional Content

Gabriela Ozegovic , Thorsten Ruprechter , Denis Helic This is my paper

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keywords Reddituser engagementnutritional contentfood postsXGBoostsocial media analysiscalorie densitycomment prediction
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The pith

Nutritional features improve prediction of Reddit food post engagement by nearly 5%.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper examines nearly half a million Reddit posts about food to test whether calories and macronutrients help explain how much users comment on them. It trains XGBoost models and shows that adding nutritional data raises accuracy over a baseline by almost 5 percent, with calorie density making a positive contribution to engagement scores. A reader would care because food content on social platforms can shape real-world eating habits, so identifying what drives online attention could guide efforts to promote healthier choices through more engaging posts.

Core claim

Analysis of almost half a million food-related posts on Reddit shows that nutritional features improve the accuracy of models predicting user engagement, measured by number of comments, by almost 5 percent, while calorie density contributes positively to the prediction, indicating that higher nutritional content associates with higher engagement levels in food-related posts.

What carries the argument

XGBoost models that incorporate nutritional features (calories and macronutrients) extracted from post text or images to predict comment counts on food-related Reddit posts.

If this is right

  • Posts showing meals with higher calorie density attract more comments than lower-density meals.
  • Nutritional data helps separate posts that will resonate with the community from those that will not.
  • Online initiatives to encourage healthy eating can increase reach by emphasizing nutritional aspects of the content.
  • Platforms could adjust content ranking or recommendations using nutritional signals to boost engagement with certain food posts.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the pattern holds, content creators might deliberately highlight calorie information to increase comment volume on their posts.
  • The finding raises the question of whether similar nutritional-engagement links appear on image-heavy platforms such as Instagram.
  • Automated nutrition estimation tools could be integrated into posting interfaces to surface high-engagement food content in real time.
  • Public-health campaigns might test whether framing messages around calorie density increases user interaction compared with other framings.

Load-bearing premise

The calories and macronutrients of meals can be accurately determined from the text or images in Reddit posts.

What would settle it

Re-estimate nutrition values by hand for a random sample of several hundred posts, retrain the models on the corrected values, and check whether the reported accuracy gain of nearly 5 percent disappears.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2502.07377 by Denis Helic, Gabriela Ozegovic, Thorsten Ruprechter.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Posts and comments in r/Food over time. We present how postings and comments developed from 2017 until 2023 across different temporal scales including yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily trends. In (a) we present the number of posts over the years. We observe a positive trend before the COVID-19 pandemic with a noticeable peak during the pandemic and a drop afterwards to pre-pandemic levels. Monthly posting… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Nutritional content distribution of food in r/Food posts. We illustrate the distribution of calories (a, e) and macro-nutrients (b–d, f–h) per 100g of food, across meal in (i) engaging (red) and non-engaging (blue) posts, and (ii) resonant (red) and non-resonant (blue) posts. The calorie content is measured in kCal per 100g, while macro-nutrients are measured in grams as fractions of 100g total. We observe… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Engagement discriminators from post titles. We present discriminative words used significantly differently in engaging and non-engaging posts as word clouds. The red color indicates words more frequently used in posts with (a) comments, or in resonant (b) posts. Blue color represents discriminative words more frequently used in posts without (a) comments, or in non-resonant (b) posts. The size of each word… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: SHAP visualizations for classifier predicting post engagement. Looking at SHAP values of different features, we can understand to which degree they influence the probability of a post receiving engagement. In the beeswarm plot (a) we display how the top features impact the model’s output, with each dot representing one post. Posting after COVID-19, being an experienced user, and having higher calorie meals… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: SHAP visualizations for classifier predicting post’s resonance level. SHAP values of features provide us with the transparency of a classifier and allow us to understand which features are beneficial to achieve resonance. In the beeswarm plot (a) we present how the values of features impact the prediction, while the bar plot (b) presents each top feature’s importance. Calorie density is the fourth most imp… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Food communities on online platforms enjoy great popularity among social media users. Due to the far-reaching consequences of food-related content on user eating behavior, recent research has studied the factors that drive user online engagement with food. While most of these studies have focused on visual aspects of food content in social media, only a few initial studies have explored the impact of nutritional content on user engagement. In this paper, we set out to close this gap and analyze food-related posts on Reddit, focusing on the association between the calories and macronutrients of a meal and engagement levels, particularly the number of comments. To that end, we collect and analyze almost half a million food-related posts and uncover differences in nutritional content between engaging and non-engaging posts. Moreover, we train a series of XGBoost models, and evaluate the importance of nutritional content while predicting user engagement and how posts will resonate with the community. We find that nutritional features improve the baseline model's accuracy by almost 5%, with a positive contribution of calorie density towards the prediction of engagement, suggesting that higher nutritional content is associated with higher levels of user engagement in food-related posts. Our results provide valuable insights for the design of more engaging online initiatives aimed at, for example, encouraging healthy eating habits.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript collects and analyzes nearly 500,000 food-related Reddit posts to study the association between nutritional content (calories and macronutrients) and user engagement, measured primarily by comment count. It compares nutritional profiles of engaging versus non-engaging posts and trains XGBoost models showing that adding nutritional features improves baseline prediction accuracy by almost 5%, with calorie density making a positive contribution, suggesting higher nutritional content is linked to greater engagement.

Significance. If the nutritional extraction is reliable and the reported lift is robust, the work provides empirical evidence on how nutritional attributes influence engagement with food content online, with potential value for designing health-related social media interventions. The scale of the dataset is a clear strength.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of a ~5% accuracy lift from nutritional features and the positive contribution of calorie density is presented without any description of the nutrition extraction pipeline, baseline feature set, cross-validation scheme, statistical significance tests, or confidence intervals, leaving the result only partially supported.
  2. [Methods] Methods (nutrition extraction section): the assumption that calories and macronutrients can be recovered from post text or images is load-bearing for both the feature-importance results and the suggested association, yet no validation against ground-truth labels, MAE, or inter-rater metrics is supplied; confounding with post length or other textual cues cannot be ruled out.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: replace the vague 'almost half a million' with the exact post count.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments, which highlight important aspects of clarity and methodological rigor. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating where revisions will be made to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of a ~5% accuracy lift from nutritional features and the positive contribution of calorie density is presented without any description of the nutrition extraction pipeline, baseline feature set, cross-validation scheme, statistical significance tests, or confidence intervals, leaving the result only partially supported.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract, as a concise summary, would benefit from additional methodological context to better support the central claims. The nutrition extraction pipeline, baseline features (textual and metadata), 5-fold cross-validation, and statistical tests (including paired t-tests for accuracy differences) are detailed in the Methods and Results sections, with confidence intervals reported for the performance metrics. In the revised manuscript, we will expand the abstract to briefly reference the extraction approach, baseline model, cross-validation, and the statistical significance of the ~5% lift (p < 0.01). This change will make the abstract more self-contained without altering its length substantially. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Methods] Methods (nutrition extraction section): the assumption that calories and macronutrients can be recovered from post text or images is load-bearing for both the feature-importance results and the suggested association, yet no validation against ground-truth labels, MAE, or inter-rater metrics is supplied; confounding with post length or other textual cues cannot be ruled out.

    Authors: This point is well-taken and identifies a genuine gap in the current presentation. The nutrition values were extracted via a combination of rule-based parsing of textual descriptions and a vision-language model applied to images, but the manuscript does not include a dedicated validation against ground-truth nutritional labels or inter-rater agreement metrics. We will add a new subsection in Methods describing the extraction process in greater detail, any available internal consistency checks, and an explicit discussion of potential confounders including post length, vocabulary richness, and image quality. Where ground-truth validation data are unavailable, we will acknowledge this limitation and report sensitivity analyses that control for textual length. These additions will directly address the load-bearing nature of the extraction step. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; standard ML feature extraction and prediction pipeline

full rationale

The paper collects Reddit posts, extracts nutritional features (calories/macros) via unspecified external means, compares engaging vs non-engaging posts, and trains XGBoost models to measure feature importance for engagement prediction. The reported ~5% accuracy lift and positive calorie-density contribution are empirical outcomes of supervised learning on independently extracted features, not quantities defined by the model's own fitted parameters or reduced to self-citation. No self-definitional steps, fitted-input-as-prediction, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the abstract or described pipeline.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the ability to extract accurate nutritional values from posts, which is a domain assumption rather than a derived result.

free parameters (1)
  • XGBoost model hyperparameters
    Typical in training but unspecified in abstract; affect the reported accuracy improvement.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Nutritional content of meals can be reliably inferred from Reddit post text or images
    Required to compute the calorie and macronutrient features used in both the association analysis and the prediction models.

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