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Rat Food

Fail

Prices span $2.01–$11.35, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Rat Food is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 538 of 875 Pet Supplies niches · −3 vs the category median of 50
Market size
£89K/yr78K searches / yr
90-day growth
+1.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
61%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 76 sellers

Flapen Score

Rat Food against its category

The dotted line is the Pet Supplies average. Past it, Rat Food is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Rat Food market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Rat Food 78K times last year and spent an estimated £89K. The top 5 brands take 89% of clicks. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 18.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 78K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 18.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +1.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £89K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
78K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+1.4%
Conversion, latest week
18.2%
Market size, estimated
£89Ka year
Peak month
September1.1× the quietest month
Top search term
rat food62K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.29.

Listings sell for £6.29 on average, from £2.01 to £11.35. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At £6.29 that is £5K to £6K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.29under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.01–£11.35
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
£5K–£6K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

50% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 89% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #142 within Small Animals. It carries 458 reviews at 4.39 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
50%
Prime listings
89%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#142in Small Animals
Average rating
4.39 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
458per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

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

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 84 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
84 months

Products

Top Rat Food 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 29, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 61% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£4K£9K£13K£18K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 flat

Sellers

76

Est. top-5 brand share

89%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

61%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

7%

  • Supreme Petfoods46%
  • Seedzbox13%
  • MALTBYS' STORES 1904 LTD13%
  • Extra Select12%
  • Hungry Pets6%
  • Marriage's4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 7%)

Demand

Rat Food search demand

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

2K1KSpike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.1×

Search terms

Top Rat Food search terms shoppers use

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

  • rat food62K/yr
  • mouse food9K/yr
  • rat food mix6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Rat Food

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

31%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
19%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Not a lot for the money”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”19% 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.

12 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Rat Food 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