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Beans

prices mostly outside the sweet spot ($0.40–$14.12) — Beans doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

48
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Market size 76Growth 17Conversion 100Competition 63Returns 100Price range 0Avg price 9Brand share 3Review moat 43Quality gap 22
This niche Category average

Is Beans profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Beans is a £909K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (1.3M searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 99% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 48/100.

Beans: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -15.3% over the last 90 days and 20.8% of searches end in a purchase.

£909K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr400K
Search volume / yr-15.3%1.3M
Conversion rate20.8%
Avg price£3.33

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 99% of demand, so 1% of the market is open.

1%

open market share

Brands · sellers6 · 79
Top-5 product click share47%
Open market1%
Avg brand age71 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.7★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 28 products

Sponsored placement36%
New entrants (1y)1· 0 succeeded
Avg rating4.7★
Avg reviews2,235

Top Beans products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 47% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

£0£36K£73K£109K£145K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

6 rising

Sellers

79

Top-5 brand share

99%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

47%

Top 20: 91%

Open market

0%

  • HEINZ43%
  • Morrisons27%
  • Branston22%
  • by Amazon5%
  • Vanilla Underground2%
  • TruffleShuffle1%

Beans demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume1.3MCVR20.8%Products28Brands6Top 5 Brands99%OOS Rate2.6%Rating4.7★Reviews2,235Avg BSR#211
30K20KSpike '24Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Top Beans search terms shoppers use

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

  • beans505K/yr
  • baked beans420K/yr
  • heinz baked beans96K/yr
  • bean90K/yr
  • branston baked beans58K/yr
  • heinz beans32K/yr
  • tinned beans24K/yr
  • beans & pulses25K/yr
  • branston beans17K/yr
  • amazon baked beans7K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Beans

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

91% of reviews
Value For Money36%

Great deal

Taste-Overall24%

Good taste

Baking10%

Best baked beans

Quality-Overall10%

Better than other known brands

Size-Overall3%

perfect portion size

What buyers complain about

62% of reviews
Taste-Overall16%

these were very tasteless

Quality-Overall13%

Very poor all juice

Value For Money7%

a bit cheaper

Sweetness6%

not as sweet as the Heinz ones so that's a plus

Dilute/Watery5%

The sauce is very thin and watery,

Beans return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.0%

Return rate

100%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Size-Overall
100%

Common Beans questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Beans 48/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £909K/yr across 28 tracked products. 0 of 1 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -15.3% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Beans on Amazon United Kingdom is steady year-round — the busiest month runs 1.5× the quietest.