How competitive is the Sour Cream niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

8 brands and 36 sellers compete in Sour Cream on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Sour Cream products take 72% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 94% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Sour Cream?

Sour Cream buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Taste-Overall, Value For Money, Stale/Rotten/Spoiled, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.0%.

What does it cost to enter the Sour Cream niche?

Sour Cream sells for £1.72 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £0.69–£2.73. The average incumbent carries 465 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Sour Cream

prices mostly outside the sweet spot ($0.69–$2.73) — Sour Cream doesn't clear our bar today.

Signals Low Review Barrier

Flapen Score

Skip it

This niche Category average

Is Sour Cream profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Sour Cream is a £50K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (108K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 94% of demand. Demand peaks in Feb–Mar. Verdict: Skip it — 39/100.

Sour Cream: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved +1.6% over the last 90 days and 26.6% of searches end in a purchase.

£50K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr40K

Search volume / yr+1.6%108K

Conversion rate26.6%

Avg price£1.72

Who owns the niche?

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

open market share

Brands · sellers8 · 36

Top-5 product click share72%

Open market6%

Avg brand age70 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 · 19 products

Top Sour Cream 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

by Amazon Guacamole 150g

Price: £1.18
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 477
Age: 6y ago

Morrisons Soured Cream & Chive Dip 170g

Price: £1.50
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 65
Age: 1y ago

Holy Moly Guacamole 3 x 57g

Price: £2.59
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 34
Age: 1y ago

Holy Moly Smashed Avocado 150g

Price: £2.18
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 251
Age: 3y ago

Booths Premium Sour Cream and Chive Dip 200g

Price: £1.44
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 388
Age: 9y ago

Newest

by launch date

Holy Moly Guacamole Chip & Dip 76g

Price: £1.97
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 1
Age: 3mo ago

Morrisons Sour Cream & Chive Dip 280g

Price: £1.47
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 6
Age: 8mo ago

Holy Moly Smashed Avocado 3 x 57g

Price: £2.73
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 21
Age: 10mo ago

Holy Moly Guacamole 3 x 57g

Price: £2.59
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 34
Age: 1y ago

Morrisons Onion Garlic & Herb Dip 170g

Price: £1.47
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 152
Age: 1y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products capture 72% of clicks — a locked-up shelf that new listings rarely crack.

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

Brands

8 flat

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

72%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

Holy Moly28%
Morrisons27%
by Amazon24%
Booths9%
Old El Paso5%
Doritos3%
Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 3%)

Sour Cream demand & seasonality

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

Volume108KCVR26.6%Products19Brands8Top 5 Brands94%OOS Rate3.9%Rating4.5★Reviews465Avg BSR#7

Peak months: Feb, Mar · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.9×

Top Sour Cream search terms shoppers use

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

guacamole65K/yr +2.9%17.2% conv.
sour cream and chive dip20K/yr -33.7%22.1% conv.
guacamole dip8K/yr +10.4%0.3% conv.
sour cream and chive5K/yr +77.2%18.4% conv.
sour cream dip4K/yr +56.5%27.8% conv.
holy moly3K/yr +18.0%19.2% conv.
smashed avocado4K/yr -6.3%15.1% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Sour Cream

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

What buyers love

89% of reviews

Taste-Overall35%

“Really nice tasting dip also used it on new potatoes, really tasty”

Quality-Overall14%

“Excellent product”

Size-Overall9%

“good size”

Freshness9%

“They are slightly cheaper compare to nearby grocery stores, however, it doesnt affect freshness, quality and taste”

Value For Money8%

“Value for money”

What buyers complain about

82% of reviews

Taste-Overall18%

“Strange-tasting Avocado”

Value For Money11%

“Far too Expensive really Not really Worth Buying”

Stale/Rotten/Spoiled10%

“It ended up spoiling in the fridge”

Hard Feel10%

“Hard”

Quality-Overall8%

“Terrible quality”

Common Sour Cream questions

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

Flapen scores Sour Cream 39/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £50K/yr across 19 tracked products. 2 of 3 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved +1.6% over the last 90 days.