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Organic Chocolate

Fail

Demand is soft, at -26.4% this quarter, so Organic Chocolate 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
£222K/yr393K searches / yr
90-day growth
-26.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
74%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 57 sellers

Flapen Score

Organic Chocolate against its category

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

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

Market

The Organic Chocolate market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Organic Chocolate 393K times last year and spent an estimated £222K. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

5.9% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 393K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 5.9% 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 £222K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
393K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-26.4%
Conversion, latest week
5.9%
Market size, estimated
£222Ka year
Peak month
December6.0× the quietest month
Top search term
green and blacks chocolate196K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £9.60.

Listings sell for £9.60 on average, from £2.01 to £26.64. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At £9.60 that is £19K to £24K a year per listing.

Average price
£9.60under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.01–£26.64
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
£19K–£24K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

11% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 78% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #731 within Chocolate Candy. It carries 181 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
11%
Prime listings
78%
Out of stock, average day
2.6%
Average rank
#731in Chocolate Candy
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
181per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 48 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
48 months

Products

Top Organic Chocolate products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 74% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£22K£44K£66K£89K1101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 rising

Sellers

57

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

4%

  • Green & Black's79%
  • Cadbury6%
  • Montezuma4%
  • Bennetto3%
  • Think Outside the Gift3%
  • Bhakti Trading Ltd2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 4%)

Demand

Organic Chocolate search demand

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

30K20KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 6.0×

Search terms

Top Organic Chocolate search terms shoppers use

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

  • green and blacks chocolate196K/yr
  • organic chocolate45K/yr
  • green and blacks dark chocolate29K/yr
  • organic dark chocolate33K/yr
  • green and blacks28K/yr
  • black chocolate11K/yr
  • green & blacks chocolate10K/yr
  • green and black6K/yr
  • green and black chocolate7K/yr
  • dark chocolate organic5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Organic Chocolate

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Value For Money22%−0.12

expensive

Totally Overpriced

Expensive

Taste-Overall13%+0.78

they just dont taste like they normally do

Two of them had 'bloomed' probably from being stored too warm, they are very hard and completely tasteless

Taste is awful

Flavor5%

zero flavour

Finally no Vanilla extract

Awful, tastes like its covered in film, no orange flavour at all

Quality-Overall5%−0.02

annoyance at being sold such bad quality chocolate

this is probably under priced for the quality

Poor quality

Storage Temperature4%−0.05

Two of them had 'bloomed' probably from being stored too warm, they are very hard and completely tasteless

it came and it was like it was melted and look at the state of it from the picture I have attached

Not a great experience - chocolate all melted and changed

Love

Taste-Overall29%+0.78

Rich taste

Delicious Chocolate

Absolutely delicious

Flavor12%

A great variety of different flavours

Great flavour

The flavours are delicious and intense, with a lovely smoothness to them

Vegan/Organic10%+1.54

they are organic

Grest taste vegan friendly

I like that the chocolate is organic

Quality-Overall8%−0.02

Good quality Chocolate

Excellent quality

Quality Chocolate

Gifting Purpose8%+1.26

A very well received gift

Lovely gift

It's great as a special gift

FAQ

Common Organic Chocolate questions

Answered from the same tracked data.