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Miso Soup

Fail

The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks, so Miso Soup 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
£91K/yr97K searches / yr
90-day growth
-26.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
64%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 29 sellers

Flapen Score

Miso Soup against its category

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

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

Market

The Miso Soup market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Miso Soup 97K times last year and spent an estimated £91K. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Nov. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 97K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -26.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £91K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
97K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-26.8%
Conversion, latest week
8.9%
Market size, estimated
£91Ka year
Peak month
January2.6× the quietest month
Top search term
miso soup71K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.52.

Listings sell for £10.52 on average, from £1.80 to £21.22. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £10.52 that is £3K to £5K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.52under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.80–£21.22
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£3K–£5K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

38% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #49 within Instant Meals & Sides. It carries 464 reviews at 4.41 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
38%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.9%
Average rank
#49in Instant Meals & Sides
Average rating
4.41 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
464per listing
Listings tracked
16

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 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 59 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
59 months

Products

Top Miso Soup 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 64% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£9K£18K£27K£36K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

29

Est. top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

64%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

2%

  • Yutaka44%
  • Itsu25%
  • Marukome17%
  • OTSUMAMI TOKYO8%
  • Shirakiku2%
  • WaNaHong2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 2%)

Demand

Miso Soup search demand

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

4K3KSpike '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.6×

Search terms

Top Miso Soup search terms shoppers use

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

  • miso soup71K/yr
  • miso soup sachets22K/yr
  • instant miso soup4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Miso Soup

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

45%of positive reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Flavor”
0.5%of orders come back
“Not very flavourful”
A buyer, on “Flavor”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.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Miso Soup 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