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Citric Acid

Maybe

An estimated 0.0% of orders come back. But prices span $2.24–$10.41, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Citric Acid is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 12% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +10 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£792K/yr763K searches / yr
90-day growth
+15.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
57%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 44 sellers

Flapen Score

Citric Acid against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Citric Acid is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

56Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Citric Acid market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Citric Acid 763K times last year and spent an estimated £792K. The top 5 brands take 70% of clicks. Demand peaks in May–Jun. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 15.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 763K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 15.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +15.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £792K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
763K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+15.9%
Conversion, latest week
15.9%
Market size, estimated
£792Ka year
Peak month
June2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
citric acid419K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.53.

Listings sell for £6.53 on average, from £2.24 to £10.41. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 100K to 125K a year. The average listing sells 4,000 to 5,000 of them. At £6.53 that is £26K to £33K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.53under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.24–£10.41
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
100K–125K
Units per listing a year
4,000–5,000
Revenue per listing a year
£26K–£33K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

70% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 70% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #40 within Baking Supplies. It carries 1,756 reviews at 4.63 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
70%
Prime listings
70%
Out of stock, average day
1.4%
Average rank
#40in Baking Supplies
Average rating
4.63 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,756per listing
Listings tracked
20

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 57 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
57 months

Products

Top Citric Acid 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 57% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£40K£79K£119K£158K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

11 rising

Sellers

44

Est. top-5 brand share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

57%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

21%

  • AKSOY23%
  • Intralabs16%
  • CHIQUO13%
  • Wholefood Earth9%
  • Grow Chem8%
  • Dri-Pak8%

Demand

Citric Acid search demand

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

40K30KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: May, Jun · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Citric Acid search terms shoppers use

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

  • citric acid419K/yr
  • citric acid for cleaning174K/yr
  • citric acid food grade77K/yr
  • citric acid powder31K/yr
  • food grade citric acid11K/yr
  • citric acid for elderflower cordial5K/yr
  • citric acid descaler17K/yr
  • citric acid 1kg9K/yr
  • citric acid crystals6K/yr
  • citric acid 500g3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Citric Acid

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Ease Of Cleaning”
7%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“The appearance is very small crystals”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”7% 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.

21 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Citric Acid 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