How competitive is the Instant Mashed Potatoes niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

9 brands and 50 sellers compete in Instant Mashed Potatoes on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Instant Mashed Potatoes products take 56% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 93% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Instant Mashed Potatoes?

Instant Mashed Potatoes buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Taste-Overall, Value For Money, Instructions/User Manual/Troubleshooting, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.0%.

What does it cost to enter the Instant Mashed Potatoes niche?

Instant Mashed Potatoes sells for £4.42 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £1.06–£17.46. The average incumbent carries 721 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Instant Mashed Potatoes

pricing outside the sweet spot ($4.42 avg) — Instant Mashed Potatoes doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

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This niche Category average

Is Instant Mashed Potatoes profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Instant Mashed Potatoes is a £519K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (497K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 93% of demand. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Jul–Aug–Sep. Verdict: Skip it — 49/100.

Instant Mashed Potatoes: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -24.2% over the last 90 days and 23.6% of searches end in a purchase.

£519K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr200K

Search volume / yr-24.2%497K

Conversion rate23.6%

Avg price£4.42

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 93% of demand, so 7% of the market is open.

open market share

Brands · sellers9 · 50

Top-5 product click share56%

Open market7%

Avg brand age51 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.5★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 25 products

Top Instant Mashed Potatoes products & what they sell for

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

Top sellers

by 90-day click share

Morrisons Mash Potato 400g

Price: £1.06
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 272
Age: 1y ago

MORRISONS Morrisons The Greengrocers On Market Street Mashed Potato 400g

Price: £1.10
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 847
Age: 3y ago

Morrisons Mash Potato 750g (Frozen) (Fixed Retail)

Price: £1.79
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 2,145
Age: 6y ago

Iceland 1kg Perfect Mash

Price: £1.99
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 296
Age: 2y ago

Mash Direct Mashed Potato 400g

Price: £1.84
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 772
Age: 6y ago

Newest

by launch date

Morrisons Instant Mash Classic 160g

Price: £1.07
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 2
Age: 3mo ago

Morrisons Mash Potato 400g

Price: £1.06
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 272
Age: 1y ago

Idahoan Perfect Mash Potato Variety Pack of 5 x 109g - Instant Mashed Potato Butter & Herb Buttery Bacon & Cheese Roasted Garlic Cheddar Cheese Mashed Potaoes Cooks in 1 Minute Ready To Eat

Price: £9.66
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 205
Age: 1y ago

Iceland 1kg Perfect Mash

Price: £1.99
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 296
Age: 2y ago

The Best Mash Potato

Price: £2.59
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 143
Age: 2y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 56% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

9 rising

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

56%

Top 20: 95%

Open market

Morrisons55%
Idahoan18%
Mash Direct7%
Iceland7%
Batchelors5%
Aunt Bessies2%
Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 5%)

Instant Mashed Potatoes demand & seasonality

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

Volume497KCVR23.6%Products25Brands9Top 5 Brands93%OOS Rate2.2%Rating4.5★Reviews721Avg BSR#14

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Jul, Aug, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 6.3×

Top Instant Mashed Potatoes search terms shoppers use

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

mashed potato185K/yr -24.9%27.7% conv.
mash144K/yr -17.0%19.6% conv.
mash potato32K/yr -22.4%18.8% conv.
idahoan mash potato34K/yr -36.6%8.3% conv.
instant mash26K/yr -27.5%12.6% conv.
instant mashed potatoes14K/yr -32.8%6.8% conv.
idahoan mashed potatoes 12 pack7K/yr -33.0%10.9% conv.
mashed potatoes9K/yr -34.0%18.6% conv.
mash potatoes4K/yr +10.2%18.9% conv.
idahoan30K/yr -29.3%14.9% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Instant Mashed Potatoes

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

What buyers love

90% of reviews

Taste-Overall41%

“Great taste”

Ease Of Use12%

“Easy to Use”

Quality-Overall11%

“Perfect mash 🤷🏽 Awesome product”

Value For Money9%

“Good price”

Cooking Instructions6%

“its just easy mash - as instant mash goes”

What buyers complain about

69% of reviews

Taste-Overall15%

“This tasted vile”

Value For Money10%

“Waste of money”

Instructions/User Manual/Troubleshooting10%

“ordered it on subscription there are no instructions”

Dilute/Watery10%

“Too watery”

Chunk/Clump/Collection6%

“Still had lumpy slices that didn't dissolve like mashed potato should”

Common Instant Mashed Potatoes questions

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

Flapen scores Instant Mashed Potatoes 49/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £519K/yr across 25 tracked products. 0 of 1 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -24.2% over the last 90 days.