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Boiled Sweets

Maybe

An estimated 0.0% of orders come back. But prices span $1.11–$17.43, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Boiled Sweets is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 7% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +13 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£157K/yr293K searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
38%top-5 click share · 24 brands · 52 sellers

Flapen Score

Boiled Sweets against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Boiled Sweets is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

59Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Boiled Sweets market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Boiled Sweets 293K times last year and spent an estimated £157K. The top 5 brands take 56% of clicks. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 293K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £157K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
293K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.1%
Conversion, latest week
6.7%
Market size, estimated
£157Ka year
Peak month
December1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
boiled sweets158K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.00.

Listings sell for £8.00 on average, from £1.11 to £17.43. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £8.00 that is £2K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.00under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.11–£17.43
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£4K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

49% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 80% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #49 within Confectionery. It carries 198 reviews at 4.22 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
49%
Prime listings
80%
Out of stock, average day
8.7%
Average rank
#49in Confectionery
Average rating
4.22 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
198per listing
Listings tracked
41

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 12 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

12 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 55 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Boiled Sweets products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 38% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£5K£9K£14K£19K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

24 rising

Sellers

52

Est. top-5 brand share

56%

Top 20: 97%

Est. top-5 click share

38%

Top 20: 81%

Open market

37%

  • Berrymans18%
  • Swizzels13%
  • Bargain Gateway9%
  • The Boiled Sweet Company9%
  • MyCandyShop7%
  • Krazy Kandi7%

Demand

Boiled Sweets search demand

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

7K5KHoliday '24Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Boiled Sweets search terms shoppers use

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

  • boiled sweets158K/yr
  • hard boiled sweets60K/yr
  • hard sweets20K/yr
  • boiled sweets wrapped15K/yr
  • boiled & hard sweets11K/yr
  • sweets boiled7K/yr
  • hard boiled sweets bulk4K/yr
  • fruit sweets boiled5K/yr
  • boiled fruit sweets5K/yr
  • boiled sweets 1kg4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Boiled Sweets

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

39%of positive reviews mention “Sweetness”
14%of negative reviews mention “Sweetness”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“It is about 200 times sweeter than sugar”
A buyer, on “Sweetness”14% 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.

12 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Boiled Sweets questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data