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Plant Sterols

Maybe

An estimated 0.0% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -21.7% this quarter, so Plant Sterols is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 33% of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · +4 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£382K/yr159K searches / yr
90-day growth
-21.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
77%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 11 sellers

Flapen Score

Plant Sterols against its category

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

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plant Sterols market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Plant Sterols 159K times last year and spent an estimated £382K. The top 5 brands take 82% of clicks. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 16.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 159K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 16.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -21.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £382K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
159K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-21.7%
Conversion, latest week
16.4%
Market size, estimated
£382Ka year
Peak month
February1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
plant sterols93K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £14.63.

Listings sell for £14.63 on average, from £7.31 to £32.31. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At £14.63 that is £18K to £22K a year per listing.

Average price
£14.63under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£7.31–£32.31
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
£18K–£22K
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. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #288 within Combination Multivitamins & Minerals. It carries 574 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
83%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.1%
Average rank
#288in Combination Multivitamins & Minerals
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
574per listing
Listings tracked
12

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 63 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
63 months

Products

Top Plant Sterols 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 77% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£38K£76K£115K£153K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

11

Est. top-5 brand share

82%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

12%

  • Vinco Supplements30%
  • Zipvit23%
  • Healthspan14%
  • NutriVolv8%
  • Simply Supplements7%
  • Horbäach6%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 12%)

Demand

Plant Sterols search demand

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

4K3KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Plant Sterols search terms shoppers use

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

  • plant sterols93K/yr
  • plant sterols to lower cholesterol43K/yr
  • plant sterols 2400mg5K/yr
  • plant stanols to lower cholesterol4K/yr
  • sterols3K/yr
  • plant sterols 800mg3K/yr
  • plant sterol3K/yr
  • plant sterols high strength 2000mg5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plant Sterols

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Heart Health”
12%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“They are fairly small”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”12% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Plant Sterols 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