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IndexFood & DrinkNo. 12 peaking

Takis

Mexican brand of flavored rolled tortilla chips

22×
vs its own baseline
19×
year on year
+4.3%
per month, last 90 days
82
confidence / 100
29 799 1,570 2,341 where it used to sit Sep 24 Feb 25 Jun 25 Nov 25 Apr 26 Sep 26
Attention share · views per billion sitewide, weekly 104 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised, deseasonalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 1,726% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

18.26×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

19%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

30%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

0.91× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

2071 days

Confirmed somewhere else

No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.

0 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

Takis is a Mexican brand of flavored rolled tortilla chips produced by Barcel, a subsidiary of Grupo Bimbo. First sold in Mexico in 1999 as Taquis, the brand was renamed to Takis in 2004. Barcel originally intended to aim Takis toward the Hispanic demographic, but its popularity quickly spread. The snack was introduced to the United States in 2001 and Canada in…

Excerpt from Takis on Wikipedia, by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Trimmed for length.

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