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Balance Bars

Maybe

An estimated 0.0% of orders come back. But the average product has 5,018 reviews to catch up to, so Balance Bars is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 32% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +4 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$350K/yr200K searches / yr
90-day growth
+8.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
61%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 663 sellers

Flapen Score

Balance Bars against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Balance Bars is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Balance Bars market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Balance Bars 200K times last year and spent an estimated $350K. The top 5 brands take 84% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 200K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +8.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $350K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
200K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+8.5%
Conversion, latest week
10.6%
Market size, estimated
$350Ka year
Peak month
July2.1× the quietest month
Top search term
peanut butter protein bars65K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $16.57.

Listings sell for $16.57 on average, from $4.81 to $24.76. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 25K to 30K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $16.57 that is $12K to $17K a year per listing.

Average price
$16.57inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.81–$24.76
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
25K–30K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$12K–$17K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

90% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 93% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #63 within Nutrition Bars & Drinks. It carries 5,018 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
93%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#63in Nutrition Bars & Drinks
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
5,018per listing
Listings tracked
29

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 78 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
78 months

Products

Top Balance Bars products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

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

Brands

13 rising

Sellers

663

Top-5 brand share

84%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

61%

Top 20: 91%

Open market

13%

  • Brand 138%
  • Brand 223%
  • Brand 314%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 13%)

Demand

Balance Bars search demand

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

10K6KPrime Day '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×

Search terms

Top Balance Bars search terms shoppers use

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

  • peanut butter protein bars65K/yr
  • clif bars peanut butter21K/yr
  • peanut butter protein bar16K/yr
  • protein bars peanut butter16K/yr
  • quest peanut butter protein bars14K/yr
  • quest peanut butter12K/yr
  • quest protein bar peanut butter9K/yr
  • chocolate peanut butter protein bars11K/yr
  • pure protein chocolate peanut butter5K/yr
  • protein bar peanut butter6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Balance Bars

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

38%of positive reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Bad taste”
A buyer, on “Taste-Overall”20% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Balance Bars questions

Answered from the same tracked data.