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Cup Noodle

Fail

The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Cup Noodle is a Fail.

Flapen Score
44
44 / 100
Ranks 762 of 1,367 Lebensmittel & Getränke niches · −2 vs the category median of 46
Market size
€75K/yr124K searches / yr
90-day growth
-14.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 26 sellers

Flapen Score

Cup Noodle against its category

The dotted line is the Lebensmittel & Getränke average. Past it, Cup Noodle is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

44Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cup Noodle market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Cup Noodle 124K times last year and spent an estimated €75K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 124K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €75K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
124K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-14.2%
Conversion, latest week
5.7%
Market size, estimated
€75Ka year
Peak month
November2.1× the quietest month
Top search term
cup noodles59K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €10.65.

Listings sell for €10.65 on average, from €1.09 to €66.53. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At €10.65 that is €3K to €5K a year per listing.

Average price
€10.65under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
€1.09–€66.53
Amazon Germany median price
€18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
€3K–€5K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

96% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #91 within Fertiggerichte. It carries 677 reviews at 4.48 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
96%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#91in Fertiggerichte
Average rating
4.48 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews
677per listing
Listings tracked
24

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
52 months

Products

Top Cup Noodle products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

26

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 95%

Open market

1%

  • Brand 181%
  • Brand 28%
  • Brand 33%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 61%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)

Demand

Cup Noodle search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

6K4KSpike '24Black Friday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×

Search terms

Top Cup Noodle search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • cup noodles59K/yr
  • nissin cup noodles24K/yr
  • instant nudeln cup20K/yr
  • ramen cup7K/yr
  • cup nudeln6K/yr
  • cup ramen4K/yr
  • noodle cup4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cup Noodle

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

60%of positive reviews mention “Geschmack insgesamt”
33%of negative reviews mention “Geschmack insgesamt”
0.1%of orders come back
“Schmeckt nicht”
A buyer, on “Geschmack insgesamt”33% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Cup Noodle questions

Answered from the same tracked data.