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Glucosamine

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.0% of orders. But demand is soft, at -10.7% this quarter, so Glucosamine is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
55
55 / 100
Top 21% of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · +7 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£429K/yr284K searches / yr
90-day growth
-10.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
51%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 27 sellers

Flapen Score

Glucosamine against its category

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

55Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Glucosamine market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Glucosamine 284K times last year and spent an estimated £429K. The top 5 brands take 76% of clicks. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

13.4% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 284K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 13.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -10.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £429K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
284K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-10.7%
Conversion, latest week
13.4%
Market size, estimated
£429Ka year
Peak month
September1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
glucosamine212K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £11.31.

Listings sell for £11.31 on average, from £5.01 to £28.86. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At £11.31 that is £14K to £17K a year per listing.

Average price
£11.31under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.01–£28.86
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
£14K–£17K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

84% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 11.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #43 within Chondroitin & Glucosamine. It carries 2,120 reviews at 4.55 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
84%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
11.1%
Average rank
#43in Chondroitin & Glucosamine
Average rating
4.55 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,120per listing
Listings tracked
25

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 2 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 2 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 66 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
66 months

Products

Top Glucosamine 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 51% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£17K£34K£52K£69K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

17 flat

Sellers

27

Top-5 brand share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

51%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

18%

  • Zipvit28%
  • Simply Supplements16%
  • NEW LEAF PRODUCTS13%
  • SS Sport Supplies11%
  • Nutravita9%
  • WeightWorld5%

Demand

Glucosamine search demand

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

6K4KSepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Glucosamine search terms shoppers use

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

  • glucosamine212K/yr
  • glucosamine sulphate47K/yr
  • vegan glucosamine6K/yr
  • nutrition geeks glucosamine5K/yr
  • glucosamine 1500mg5K/yr
  • glucosamine tablets6K/yr
  • glucosamine high strength3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Glucosamine

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

Complain

Ease Of Chewing/Swallowing11%−0.05

Other reviews have mentioned difficulty in swallowing these

Hard To Swallow

The tablets are quite large to swallow

Taste-Overall9%−0.05

Taste awful

seemingly taste-less too

Tastes a little weird

Functionality-Overall9%−0.04

Didn't work for me

did not work well as first one

not too effective

Size-Overall9%−0.03

These capsules are rather large

The tablets are quite large

To big

Joint Pain5%+1.19

None effective for joint pain

Having tried these on the basis of some reported benefits for over a year i can say that they have made no detectable difference to my joints or the level of pain i get from them

Joint problems

Love

Joint Pain25%+1.19

For joint pain relief

Really brilliant for joint pain easing the aches

This has the right combination to help joint pain

Value For Money18%+1.05

Good value for money

Best value

Excellent price

Quality-Overall17%+1.32

Excellent combo product

EXCELLENT PRODUCT

Great quality from a reliable seller

Advertised Vs Actual Product7%+0.30

As advertised

As described

The product matches the description

Ease Of Chewing/Swallowing5%−0.05

not difficult to swallow

Easy to swallow

to date I have not had any problems swallowing them

FAQ

Common Glucosamine questions

Answered from the same tracked data.