Skip to content

Glucosamine

Maybe

An estimated 0.0% of orders come back. 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

An estimated 13.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 284K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 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

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

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. 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

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 25, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 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

Est. top-5 brand share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Est. 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 estimated 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

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Joint Pain”
11%of negative reviews mention “Ease Of Chewing/Swallowing”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Other reviews have mentioned difficulty in swallowing these”
A buyer, on “Ease Of Chewing/Swallowing”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 Glucosamine 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