According to food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy, our dear samosa is India’s “most binged snack” of 2021 with about 50 lakh orders, topping the list of the most ordered foods during the year. Coming a distant second in the top food orders of the year list were Pav Bhajii and Gulab Jamun, with 21 lakh orders each, as per the sixth annual ‘StatEATstics report’ by Swiggy. The love for “desi samosa” was reflected in the fact that it was ordered “six times more than chicken wings”.
StatEATstics tells us about India’s top dishes in 2021, and the report found biryani to be the undisputed dish, topping the charts for the sixth year in a row.
In 2020, 90 Biryanis were ordered per minute, and in 2021, India ordered 115 Biryanis per minute, or 2 Biryanis per second, Swiggy said, adding chicken biryani was ordered 4.3 times more than its vegetarian counterpart.
Remarkably, over 4.25 lakh new users made their Swiggy debut by ordering a chicken biryani, it added. The StatEATstics report is based on orders received by Swiggy for food delivery, grocery on Instamart, pick-up and drop service, Swiggy Genie, and HealthHub platforms between January and December 2021.
Grocery platform Instamart delivered over 28 million packs of fruits and vegetables alone in 2021. Tomatoes, bananas, onions, potatoes, and green chilies were the top five fruits and veggies delivered in under 30 minutes, it said. As far as instant indulgence was concerned, Swiggy said 14 lakh packets of instant noodles, 31 lakh packets of chocolate and 23 lakh tubs of ice cream were delivered.