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Sunflower Seeds

Maybe

An estimated 0.0% of orders come back. But products sell for $5.16 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Sunflower Seeds is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
51
51 / 100
Top 27% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +5 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£339K/yr439K searches / yr
90-day growth
-12.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
62%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 15 sellers

Flapen Score

Sunflower Seeds against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Sunflower Seeds is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

51Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Sunflower Seeds market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Sunflower Seeds 439K times last year and spent an estimated £339K. The top 5 brands take 88% of clicks. Demand peaks in Mar–Apr–May. Flapen scores it 51 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 15.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 439K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 15.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -12.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £339K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
439K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-12.6%
Conversion, latest week
15.0%
Market size, estimated
£339Ka year
Peak month
April3.7× the quietest month
Top search term
sunflower seeds337K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.16.

Listings sell for £5.16 on average, from £1.64 to £30.51. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At £5.16 that is £8K to £10K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.16under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.64–£30.51
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
1,500–2,000
Revenue per listing a year
£8K–£10K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

83% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #109 within Dried Fruits, Nuts & Vegetables. It carries 925 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
83%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
6.1%
Average rank
#109in Dried Fruits, Nuts & Vegetables
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
925per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 61 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Products

Top Sunflower Seeds 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 62% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£34K£68K£102K£136K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

15

Est. top-5 brand share

88%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

62%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

8%

  • Mr Fothergill's45%
  • Pretty Wild Seeds17%
  • Simply Garden15%
  • Wholefood Earth9%
  • Minton & Donello4%
  • DAMAVAND PRO4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 8%)

Demand

Sunflower Seeds search demand

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

13K8KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar, Apr, May · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.7×

Search terms

Top Sunflower Seeds search terms shoppers use

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

  • sunflower seeds337K/yr
  • sunflower seeds to grow55K/yr
  • sun flower seeds to grow8K/yr
  • sunflower seeds to plant11K/yr
  • sunflower seeds for planting9K/yr
  • sun flower seeds8K/yr
  • sunflower seed7K/yr
  • sunflowers seeds4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Sunflower Seeds

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

32%of positive reviews mention “Plant Growth”
37%of negative reviews mention “Plant Growth”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“None of these items that I have bought from Amazon Amazon plant wise has not flowered”
A buyer, on “Plant Growth”37% 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 Sunflower Seeds 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