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Custard

Fail

Prices span $0.68–$13.86, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Custard is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 2,003 of 2,976 Grocery niches · −4 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£160K/yr248K searches / yr
90-day growth
-26.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
51%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 53 sellers

Flapen Score

Custard against its category

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

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Custard market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Custard 248K times last year and spent an estimated £160K. The top 5 brands take 99% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 22.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 248K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 22.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -26.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £160K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
248K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-26.4%
Conversion, latest week
22.3%
Market size, estimated
£160Ka year
Peak month
December2.5× the quietest month
Top search term
custard227K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £2.90.

Listings sell for £2.90 on average, from £0.68 to £13.86. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 80K to 100K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £2.90 that is £9K to £12K a year per listing.

Average price
£2.90under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£0.68–£13.86
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
80K–100K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£9K–£12K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

21% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #57 within Cooking Ingredients. It carries 1,298 reviews at 4.57 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
21%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#57in Cooking Ingredients
Average rating
4.57 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,298per listing
Listings tracked
28

04 · Newcomers

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

2 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 65 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
65 months

Products

Top Custard 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 51% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£8K£16K£24K£32K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 rising

Sellers

53

Est. top-5 brand share

99%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

51%

Top 20: 91%

Open market

0%

  • Ambrosia59%
  • Morrisons21%
  • CUSTIC11%
  • by Amazon6%
  • Bird's3%
  • CO OP1%

Demand

Custard search demand

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

9K7KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.5×

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Custard

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

32%of positive reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
17%of negative reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Tasteless and horrible, couldnt taste any vanilla, very bland”
A buyer, on “Taste-Overall”17% 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.

13 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Custard 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