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Food Mill

a small market ($93K/yr) — Food Mill doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

49
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Ranks 3,207 of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · −2 vs the category median of 51

Market size 23Growth 38Conversion 60Competition 36Returns 24Price range 75Avg price 95Brand share 53Review moat 49Quality gap 97
This niche Category average · 5,777 niches

Is Food Mill profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Food Mill is a £93K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (47K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 73% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 49/100.

Food Mill: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved +10.0% over the last 90 days and 5.1% of searches end in a purchase.

£93K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr1K
Search volume / yr+10.0%47K
Conversion rate5.1%
Avg price£38.49

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 73% of demand, so 27% of the market is open.

27%

open market share

Brands · sellers15 · 64
Top-5 product click share64%
Open market27%
Avg brand age51 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 3.8★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 20 products

Sponsored placement65%
New entrants (1y)2· 0 succeeded
Avg rating3.8★
Avg reviews1,586

Top Food Mill products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 64% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

£0£9K£19K£28K£37K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

15 rising

Sellers

64

Top-5 brand share

73%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

64%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

21%

  • Moulinex28%
  • Navaris17%
  • Mihoho12%
  • Ejoyous8%
  • OXO8%
  • The Hungry Artisan6%

Food Mill demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume47KCVR5.1%Products20Brands15Top 5 Brands73%OOS Rate6.2%Rating3.8★Reviews1,586Avg BSR#736
2K1KSep '25Nov '25Dec '25Feb '26Apr '26May '26

Top Food Mill search terms shoppers use

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

  • food mill25K/yr
  • mouli13K/yr
  • moulin5K/yr
  • food mill for tomatoes4K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Food Mill

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

95% of reviews
Quality-Overall50%

Superficially well made

Ease Of Use15%

Easy to use

Strength10%

Solid piece of equipment

Time Taken10%

gone back to my decent hand held manual masher as it was far quicker

Ease Of Cleaning5%

easy to clean

What buyers complain about

93% of reviews
Quality-Overall32%

Cheap and effective

Durability14%

Broke after 6mths

Size-Overall7%

Doesn't even fit together

Instructions/User Manual/Troubleshooting7%

No instructions, didnt work, getting a refund seems to be difficult

Design-Overall7%

badly engineered

Food Mill return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

5.3%

Return rate

23%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Functionality-Overall
20%
2Size-Overall
19%
3Quality-Overall
10%
4Strength
7%
5Mechanism Issues
6%

Common Food Mill questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Food Mill 49/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £93K/yr across 20 tracked products. 0 of 2 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved +10.0% over the last 90 days.
Food Mill buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Quality-Overall, Durability, Size-Overall, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 5.3% — above our launch gate.