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Hot Honey

Fail

Demand is soft, at -22.2% this quarter, so Hot Honey is a Fail.

Flapen Score
44
44 / 100
Ranks 1,743 of 2,976 Grocery niches · −2 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£232K/yr201K searches / yr
90-day growth
-22.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
76%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 41 sellers

Flapen Score

Hot Honey against its category

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

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

Market

The Hot Honey market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Hot Honey 201K times last year and spent an estimated £232K. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 14.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 201K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 14.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -22.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £232K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
201K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-22.2%
Conversion, latest week
14.8%
Market size, estimated
£232Ka year
Peak month
December1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
hot honey140K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.84.

Listings sell for £7.84 on average, from £2.10 to £20.75. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At £7.84 that is £10K to £12K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.84under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.10–£20.75
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
£10K–£12K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

75% 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 #61 within Baking Supplies. It carries 1,549 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
75%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#61in Baking Supplies
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,549per listing
Listings tracked
12

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 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 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Hot Honey 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 76% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£23K£46K£70K£93K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

9 flat

Sellers

41

Est. top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

8%

  • Hilltop Honey44%
  • Dino's Famous17%
  • JD's Hot Honey12%
  • Hot Star Honey8%
  • Mike's Hot Honey5%
  • Etholux4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 8%)

Demand

Hot Honey search demand

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

9K7KHoliday '24Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Hot Honey search terms shoppers use

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

  • hot honey140K/yr
  • hot honey sauce33K/yr
  • jd hot honey9K/yr
  • hot honey drizzle6K/yr
  • jds hot honey7K/yr
  • chilli honey5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hot Honey

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

38%of positive reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Spiciness”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Its got spice”
A buyer, on “Spiciness”20% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Hot Honey 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