How competitive is the Sherbet niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

19 brands and 53 sellers compete in Sherbet on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Sherbet products take 48% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 71% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Sherbet?

Sherbet buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Taste-Overall, Value For Money, Sweetness, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.0%.

What does it cost to enter the Sherbet niche?

Sherbet sells for £8.87 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £0.98–£21.21. The average incumbent carries 306 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Sherbet

Sherbet shows low returns (0.0%), but a small market ($46K/yr) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

Worth a look

This niche Category average

Is Sherbet profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Sherbet is a £46K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (101K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 71% of demand. Verdict: Worth a look — 50/100.

Sherbet: 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 -2.8% over the last 90 days and 5.1% of searches end in a purchase.

£46K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr6K

Search volume / yr-2.8%101K

Conversion rate5.1%

Avg price£8.87

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 71% of demand, so 29% of the market is open.

29%

open market share

Brands · sellers19 · 53

Top-5 product click share48%

Open market29%

Avg brand age57 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.3★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 32 products

Top Sherbet 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

Sherbet Fountains x10 Tubes

Price: £7.03
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 1,178
Age: 15y ago

Barratt Sherbet Fountain 48 x 25g Bag

Price: £18.81
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 579
Age: 15y ago

Baking Beauty and Beyond Premium Candy Floss Sugar 100g - Lemon Sherbet Flavour

Price: £3.08
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 4,032
Age: 2y ago

barratts Sherbet Fountains x 10

Price: £7.14
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 77
Age: 13y ago

Just Treats Blue Crystals (500g Share Bag)

Price: £7.77
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 45
Age: 2y ago

Newest

by launch date

Swizzels Retro Sherbet Fizz Dips Triple Dip x12 Bulk Box Pick & Mix

Price: £6.71
Rating: 0.0/5
Reviews: 0
Age: 1mo ago

Maynards Bassetts Sherbet Lemons Tangy Lemon Sweets 162 g (Pack of 1)

Price: £0.98
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 34
Age: 4mo ago

Barratt Sherbet Fountains 48 x 25g Tubes Bulk Sharing Box | Classic Fizzy Powder with Liquorice Dipping Stick | Professionally Packed for Freshness

Price: £19.34
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 3
Age: 4mo ago

25 x Strawberry Flavour Cream Soda Blocks - Sherbet Block Sweets - Melt In Your Mouth Retro Sherbet Sweet Blocks - Gift Pouch

Price: £9.18
Rating: 3.8/5
Reviews: 22
Age: 1y ago

Krazy Kandi Sherbet Fruits 1kg Bulk Bag | Assorted Flavour Hard Boiled Sweets with Fizzy Sherbet Centre | Classic Retro British Candy | Party Sweets | Traditional Confectionery for Sharing & Gifting

Price: £7.76
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 88
Age: 1y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 48% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

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

Brands

19 flat

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

71%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

48%

Top 20: 85%

Open market

26%

Barratt44%
Just Treats12%
BBB BAKING BEAUTY & BEYOND7%
Berrymans4%
Retro Sweet Kings4%
Krazy Kandi4%

Sherbet demand & seasonality

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

Volume101KCVR5.1%Products32Brands19Top 5 Brands71%OOS Rate2.3%Rating4.3★Reviews306Avg BSR#4

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Top Sherbet search terms shoppers use

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

sherbet43K/yr +0.6%2.2% conv.
sherbert16K/yr +11.6%2.0% conv.
sherbet fountain16K/yr -5.6%10.8% conv.
sherbet sweets13K/yr -11.8%4.4% conv.
sherbert fountain sweets5K/yr -4.6%11.4% conv.
sherbet sticks5K/yr -32.3%0.0% conv.
sherbet fountains3K/yr -14.8%10.2% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Sherbet

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

What buyers love

90% of reviews

Sweetness26%

“Sweet tooth”

Taste-Overall22%

“Taste exactly as they used to, perfect treat”

Quality-Overall12%

“The sherbet lemons very good quality”

Flavor12%

“Nice flavours”

Value For Money10%

“Decent value for the price”

What buyers complain about

75% of reviews

Taste-Overall23%

“Hard, tasteless”

Value For Money17%

“Bit more expensive”

Sweetness8%

“Wors sherbet sweets I have ever had”

Stale/Rotten/Spoiled6%

“Sadly they were quite stale”

Size-Overall6%

“A lot smaller than they used to be”

Common Sherbet questions

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

Flapen scores Sherbet 50/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £46K/yr across 32 tracked products. 1 of 4 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -2.8% over the last 90 days.