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Sherbet Lemons

Fail

Prices span $0.98–$17.69, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Sherbet Lemons is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 40% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +2 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£125K/yr89K searches / yr
90-day growth
-0.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
79%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 17 sellers

Flapen Score

Sherbet Lemons against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Sherbet Lemons is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Sherbet Lemons market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Sherbet Lemons 89K times last year and spent an estimated £125K. The top 5 brands take 89% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

16.3% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 89K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 16.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -0.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £125K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
89K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-0.5%
Conversion, latest week
16.3%
Market size, estimated
£125Ka year
Peak month
December1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
sherbet lemons38K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.65.

Listings sell for £8.65 on average, from £0.98 to £17.69. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £8.65 that is £2K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.65under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£0.98–£17.69
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£4K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

42% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 92% ship with Prime. On an average day, 12.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #40 within Confectionery. It carries 145 reviews at 4.23 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
42%
Prime listings
92%
Out of stock, average day
12.6%
Average rank
#40in Confectionery
Average rating
4.23 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
145per listing
Listings tracked
12

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 55 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
55 months

Products

Top Sherbet Lemons 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 79% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£19K£38K£56K£75K1101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

17

Top-5 brand share

89%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

8%

  • Maynards Bassetts44%
  • Berrymans28%
  • Bonds of London7%
  • Bargain Gateway6%
  • Morrisons4%
  • Generic4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 8%)

Demand

Sherbet Lemons search demand

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

3K2KHoliday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Sherbet Lemons search terms shoppers use

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

  • sherbet lemons38K/yr
  • lemon sherbets sweets25K/yr
  • lemon sweets12K/yr
  • lemon sherbet6K/yr
  • lemon sherbets3K/yr
  • sherbet lemons sweets3K/yr
  • sherbert lemons2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Sherbet Lemons

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

Complain

Taste-Overall22%−0.10

less sherbert taste

still dont taste as nice

Not much of a sherbet taste

Stale/Rotten/Spoiled13%−0.20

Not like previous batch

Sadly they were quite stale

Rubbish

Value For Money10%−0.03

Cost. A bit expensive for what you get

Overpriced Sherbert Lemons

Not good value

Size-Overall9%−0.07

A lot smaller than they used to be

Smaller than i thouvhg ghe jar would be

they seem smaller than when I was a kid

Quality-Overall6%+1.26

quality control could be better

Didn't think they were any better quality than those you can buy on the high street

Not so good this time

Love

Sweetness34%+0.96

Lovely sweets

The perfect balance of sweet

Best boiled sweet

Taste-Overall18%−0.10

Nice lemon sherbet treat

The bits are very tasty

Absolutely delicious

Quality-Overall12%+1.26

The sherbet lemons very good quality

I found this tree to be of good quality

Excellent product

Flavor7%+0.72

Flavour good

Nice flavours nice amount of sherberts

good quality and depth of flavour of lemon 🍋🍋🍋 an sherbet plus a proper traditional sweet company from days gone bye

Value For Money6%−0.03

price is good for 4 packs

Good value

the wait was worth it

FAQ

Common Sherbet Lemons questions

Answered from the same tracked data.