How competitive is the Plantain Chips niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

12 brands and 54 sellers compete in Plantain Chips on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Plantain Chips products take 60% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 81% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Plantain Chips?

Plantain Chips buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Value For Money, Spiciness, Hard Feel, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.0%.

What does it cost to enter the Plantain Chips niche?

Plantain Chips sells for £14.53 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £0.80–£35.54. The average incumbent carries 104 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Plantain Chips

Plantain Chips shows low returns (0.0%), but a small market ($85K/yr) keeps it on the watch list.

Signals Low Review Barrier

Flapen Score

Worth a look

This niche Category average

Is Plantain Chips profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Plantain Chips is a £85K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (103K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 81% of demand. Verdict: Worth a look — 51/100.

Plantain Chips: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -5.4% over the last 90 days and 5.7% of searches end in a purchase.

£85K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr10K

Search volume / yr-5.4%103K

Conversion rate5.7%

Avg price£14.53

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 81% of demand, so 19% of the market is open.

19%

open market share

Brands · sellers12 · 54

Top-5 product click share60%

Open market19%

Avg brand age51 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.4★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 21 products

Top Plantain Chips 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

Tropical Sun Sweet Plantain Chips 450g (Pack of 1)

Price: £6.74
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 61
Age: 2y ago

Olu Olu Sweet Yellow Plantain Chips 24 x 60g

Price: £23.56
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 354
Age: 8y ago

Tropical Sun Salted Plantain Chips 450g (Pack of 1)

Price: £7.54
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 84
Age: 2y ago

Olu Olu Sweet Yellow Plantain Chips 24 x 60g | 100% Natural | Naturally Sweet | Yellow Plantain Chips | Heartly Crunch | Authentic Flavours

Price: £22.56
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 144
Age: 2y ago

Tropical Sun Sweet Chilli Flavour Plantain Chips 450g (Pack of 1)

Price: £5.76
Rating: 3.4/5
Reviews: 16
Age: 2y ago

Newest

by launch date

Green Plantain Chips Gluten Free High in Fibre Salted 85g Premium Snack 3-Pack

Price: £6.66
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 3
Age: 8mo ago

Olu Olu Plantain Chips Chilli 60g I Box of 24

Price: £29.03
Rating: 3.0/5
Reviews: 2
Age: 1y ago

Olu Olu Plantain Chips Chilli 60g I Box of 24

Price: £21.94
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 4
Age: 1y ago

Olu Olu Plantain Chips Mixed Box Pack of 24 (8 Green 8 Red 8 Yellow Plantain chips)

Price: £22.52
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 6
Age: 2y ago

Olu Olu Plantain Chips Mixed Box of Yellow and Red Plantain Chips (Pack of 24-12 Red and 12 Yellow)

Price: £22.22
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 6
Age: 2y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 60% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

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

Brands

12 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

81%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

60%

Top 20: 99%

Open market

15%

Tropical Sun43%
Olu Olu Gourmet11%
Generic10%
Samai9%
Gharana Swaad Ka Khazaana9%
Grace4%
Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 15%)

Plantain Chips demand & seasonality

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

Volume103KCVR5.7%Products21Brands12Top 5 Brands81%OOS Rate3.2%Rating4.4★Reviews104Avg BSR#265

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Top Plantain Chips search terms shoppers use

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

plantain chips81K/yr -6.2%5.6% conv.
olu olu plantain chips10K/yr +8.1%3.0% conv.
plantain chips box9K/yr -13.2%3.3% conv.
sweet plantain chips3K/yr -17.5%3.6% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plantain Chips

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

What buyers love

89% of reviews

Taste-Overall34%

“Amazing taste”

Crispiness20%

“The chips are nicely crunchy without being too hard”

Quality-Overall9%

“Quality”

Sweetness8%

“The yellow packs very sweet”

Soft Feel4%

“Nourish”

What buyers complain about

74% of reviews

Value For Money21%

“are more expensive”

Spiciness9%

“Red hot spicy chips packs in this mix box not as hot & Spicy, however, tastes good”

Hard Feel7%

“A bit too hard”

Stale/Rotten/Spoiled7%

“Unfortunately these plantain crisps were stale :”

Artificial Sweeteners7%

“Have added sugar which makes these to sweet for me. and less healthy than naturally sweet ripe plantain chips”

Common Plantain Chips questions

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

Flapen scores Plantain Chips 51/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £85K/yr across 21 tracked products. 0 of 1 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -5.4% over the last 90 days.