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Ramen Broth

Fail

Demand is soft, at -31.5% this quarter, so Ramen Broth is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 1,444 of 2,976 Grocery niches · on the category median
Market size
£88K/yr86K searches / yr
90-day growth
-31.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
58%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 59 sellers

Flapen Score

Ramen Broth against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Ramen Broth is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

46Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Ramen Broth market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Ramen Broth 86K times last year and spent an estimated £88K. The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 86K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -31.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £88K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
86K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-31.5%
Conversion, latest week
10.6%
Market size, estimated
£88Ka year
Top search term
itsu noodles49K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £9.55.

Listings sell for £9.55 on average, from £1.55 to £23.90. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £9.55 that is £955 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£9.55under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.55–£23.90
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£955–£2K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

63% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 9.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #99 within Instant Meals & Sides. It carries 44 reviews at 4.40 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
63%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
9.8%
Average rank
#99in Instant Meals & Sides
Average rating
4.40 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
44per listing
Listings tracked
24

04 · Newcomers

9 of last year's 14 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

14 products launched here in the last 12 months. 9 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 56 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
14
Successful launches
9Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
56 months

Products

Top Ramen Broth 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 58% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£9K£18K£26K£35K1101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

59

Est. top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

58%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

5%

  • Itsu75%
  • Lee Kum Kee7%
  • Kakuni5%
  • Kikkoman4%
  • WaNaHong2%
  • Wagamama2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 5%)

Demand

Ramen Broth search demand

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

3K2KJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Jan, Feb · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0× · 7 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Ramen Broth search terms shoppers use

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

  • itsu noodles49K/yr
  • ramen broth27K/yr
  • ramen soup base6K/yr
  • itsu ramen4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Ramen Broth

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

36%of positive reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
10%of negative reviews mention “Nutritional Content”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“It contains wheat so is no good for gluten intolerant people”
A buyer, on “Nutritional Content”10% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Ramen Broth 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