How competitive is the Pickling Spice niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

8 brands and 11 sellers compete in Pickling Spice on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Pickling Spice products take 71% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 94% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Pickling Spice?

Pickling Spice buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Instructions/User Manual/Troubleshooting, Size-Overall, Flavor, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.0%.

What does it cost to enter the Pickling Spice niche?

Pickling Spice sells for £6.73 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £2.86–£12.47. The average incumbent carries 271 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Pickling Spice

prices mostly outside the sweet spot ($2.86–$12.47) — Pickling Spice doesn't clear our bar today.

Signals Low Review Barrier

Flapen Score

Skip it

This niche Category average

Is Pickling Spice profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Pickling Spice is a £59K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (49K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 94% of demand. Demand peaks in Aug–Sep–Oct–Nov. Verdict: Skip it — 45/100.

Pickling Spice: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved +30.2% over the last 90 days and 18.1% of searches end in a purchase.

£59K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr8K

Search volume / yr+30.2%49K

Conversion rate18.1%

Avg price£6.73

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 94% of demand, so 6% of the market is open.

open market share

Brands · sellers8 · 11

Top-5 product click share71%

Open market6%

Avg brand age57 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 · 13 products

Top Pickling Spice 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

Pickling Spice Mix 100g by Hatton Hill | A Balanced Blend of Herbs & Spices for Perfect Homemade Pickles

Price: £4.96
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 85
Age: 3y ago

Pickling Spice Mix 250g by Hatton Hill | A Balanced Blend of Herbs & Spices for Perfect Homemade Pickles

Price: £7.15
Rating: 4.8/5
Reviews: 19
Age: 3y ago

Pickling Spice 100g by Manor Springs

Price: £4.48
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 106
Age: 4y ago

Old India Pickling Spice Whole 500g

Price: £7.64
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 509
Age: 5y ago

Old India Pickling Spice Whole 250g

Price: £5.26
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 427
Age: 5y ago

Newest

by launch date

Natures Balance Whole Pickling Spice Mix 100g - Pickling Seasoning for Onions Beetroot Red Cabbage Chutneys & Preserves - Traditional Whole Spice Blend

Price: £5.98
Rating: 0.0/5
Reviews: 0
Age: 4mo ago

Pickling Spice | 220g | Green Cuisine Pickling Spice | Great for Vegetables and adding flavour to slow cooked dishes

Price: £7.62
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 6
Age: 10mo ago

Pickling Spice 100g by Colourful Trees

Price: £4.01
Rating: 3.9/5
Reviews: 5
Age: 10mo ago

Badia Extra Fancy Pickling Spice Fragrant mixture of spices 13 Ounce

Price: £12.47
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 1,313
Age: 2y ago

Premium Pickling Spice 125g (BWFO)

Price: £2.86
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 249
Age: 3y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products capture 71% of clicks — a locked-up shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

71%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

Hatton Hill43%
Old India21%
Buy Whole Foods Online13%
MANOR SPRINGS13%
COLOURFULTREES4%
Badia2%
Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 4%)

Pickling Spice demand & seasonality

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

Volume49KCVR18.1%Products13Brands8Top 5 Brands94%OOS Rate0.4%Rating4.5★Reviews271Avg BSR#103

Peak months: Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 7.1×

Top Pickling Spice search terms shoppers use

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

pickling spice33K/yr +31.8%13.8% conv.
pickling spice mix7K/yr +49.5%15.0% conv.
pickling spices5K/yr +15.0%14.7% conv.
pickling spices for pickled onions4K/yr -1.1%12.8% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pickling Spice

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

What buyers love

95% of reviews

Quality-Overall30%

“Very good quality spice”

Spiciness16%

“Great spices, easy to use”

Blend/Ratio15%

“Good mix”

Taste-Overall10%

“the fish came out very tasty”

Value For Money10%

“Good value”

What buyers complain about

80% of reviews

Instructions/User Manual/Troubleshooting20%

“Directions to quntities missing”

Size-Overall20%

“For me its a very small bag also The product image shown is in a resealable bag the one i recieved is in a normal clear bag”

Flavor20%

“Personally I didn't really like the flavor”

Spiciness13%

“Spices, perhaps a little bland”

Ease Of Use7%

“such as grinding a scoop down. took a while”

Common Pickling Spice questions

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

Flapen scores Pickling Spice 45/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £59K/yr across 13 tracked products. 0 of 3 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved +30.2% over the last 90 days.