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Amino Acids

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -20.3% this quarter, so Amino Acids is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 15% of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · +9 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£172K/yr214K searches / yr
90-day growth
-20.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
48%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 62 sellers

Flapen Score

Amino Acids against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Personal Care average. Past it, Amino Acids is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

57Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Amino Acids market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Amino Acids 214K times last year and spent an estimated £172K. The top 5 brands take 59% of clicks. Demand peaks in Sep. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 214K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -20.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £172K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
214K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-20.3%
Conversion, latest week
6.2%
Market size, estimated
£172Ka year
Peak month
September1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
amino acids78K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £13.02.

Listings sell for £13.02 on average, from £4.71 to £30.73. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £13.02 that is £3K to £7K a year per listing.

Average price
£13.02under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.71–£30.73
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
£3K–£7K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

78% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #49 within Diet & Nutrition. It carries 482 reviews at 4.37 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
78%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.5%
Average rank
#49in Diet & Nutrition
Average rating
4.37 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
482per listing
Listings tracked
27

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 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 56 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
56 months

Products

Top Amino Acids 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 48% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£9K£17K£26K£34K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

17 rising

Sellers

62

Est. top-5 brand share

59%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

48%

Top 20: 92%

Open market

33%

  • ALPHA0119%
  • G&G Vitamins11%
  • Warrior11%
  • Applied Nutrition9%
  • Horbäach8%
  • swiss bioenergetics8%

Demand

Amino Acids search demand

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

8K6KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Amino Acids search terms shoppers use

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

  • amino acids78K/yr
  • amino acid supplements57K/yr
  • essential amino acids28K/yr
  • perfect amino20K/yr
  • amino acid10K/yr
  • amino acid nutritional supplements13K/yr
  • amino acids tablets5K/yr
  • perfect aminos3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Amino Acids

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
11%of negative reviews mention “Dosage”
0.1%of orders come back
“For me, the issue is the size of the B6 dose that would be taken in two capsules, at 20mg it is far in excess of the typical daily requirement”
A buyer, on “Dosage”11% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Amino Acids 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