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Compostable Bowls

Maybe

An estimated 0.5% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -14.3% this quarter, so Compostable Bowls is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
60
60 / 100
Top 11% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +11 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$427K/yr354K searches / yr
90-day growth
-14.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
39%top-5 click share · 26 brands · 627 sellers

Flapen Score

Compostable Bowls against its category

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

60Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Compostable Bowls market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Compostable Bowls 354K times last year and spent an estimated $427K. The top 5 brands take 48% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 354K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $427K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
354K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-14.3%
Conversion, latest week
8.3%
Market size, estimated
$427Ka year
Peak month
November7.3× the quietest month
Top search term
compostable bowls63K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $14.53.

Listings sell for $14.53 on average, from $2.00 to $43.31. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $14.53 that is $11K to $15K a year per listing.

Average price
$14.53under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.00–$43.31
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$11K–$15K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

85% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #67 within Disposable Plates, Bowls & Cutlery. It carries 2,542 reviews at 4.62 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
85%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.4%
Average rank
#67in Disposable Plates, Bowls & Cutlery
Average rating
4.62 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,542per listing
Listings tracked
40

04 · Newcomers

5 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. 5 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top Compostable Bowls 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 only 39% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

26 rising

Sellers

627

Top-5 brand share

48%

Top 20: 94%

Top-5 click share

39%

Top 20: 77%

Open market

47%

  • Brand 116%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Compostable Bowls search demand

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

23K18KSpike '24Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 7.3×

Search terms

Top Compostable Bowls search terms shoppers use

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

  • compostable bowls63K/yr
  • large disposable bowls28K/yr
  • soup bowls disposable hot85K/yr
  • dessert bowls disposable21K/yr
  • disposable dessert bowls15K/yr
  • disposable small bowls14K/yr
  • biodegradable bowls12K/yr
  • 8 oz paper bowls8K/yr
  • disposable pasta bowls11K/yr
  • compostable paper bowls7K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Compostable Bowls

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Strength”
39%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.5%of orders come back
“Too large”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”39% 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 Compostable Bowls questions

Answered from the same tracked data.