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Food Grade Castor Oil

Fail

Demand is soft, at -15.3% this quarter, so Food Grade Castor Oil is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 9,041 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · −3 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$285K/yr235K searches / yr
90-day growth
-15.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
74%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 81 sellers

Flapen Score

Food Grade Castor Oil against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Food Grade Castor Oil is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

46Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Food Grade Castor Oil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Food Grade Castor Oil 235K times last year and spent an estimated $285K. The top 5 brands take 77% of clicks. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 235K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -15.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $285K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
235K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-15.3%
Conversion, latest week
6.7%
Market size, estimated
$285Ka year
Peak month
February1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
food grade castor oil37K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $18.03.

Listings sell for $18.03 on average, from $6.27 to $39.93. 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 $18.03 that is $14K to $18K a year per listing.

Average price
$18.03inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.27–$39.93
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$14K–$18K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

69% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #158 within Digestion & Nausea. It carries 7,995 reviews at 4.65 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
69%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#158in Digestion & Nausea
Average rating
4.65 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
7,995per listing
Listings tracked
16

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 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 60 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
60 months

Products

Top Food Grade Castor Oil 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 74% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

13 falling

Sellers

81

Top-5 brand share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

19%

  • Brand 121%
  • Brand 218%
  • Brand 317%
  • Brand 411%
  • Brand 511%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Food Grade Castor Oil search demand

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

6K4KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Food Grade Castor Oil search terms shoppers use

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

  • food grade castor oil37K/yr
  • castor oil laxative22K/yr
  • castor oil for constipation22K/yr
  • aceite de ricino para tomar27K/yr
  • castor oil food grade16K/yr
  • edible castor oil15K/yr
  • food grade castor oil organic12K/yr
  • castor oil edible10K/yr
  • castor oil to drink11K/yr
  • edible castor oil organic7K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Food Grade Castor Oil

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

34%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
14%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.6%of orders come back
“slight smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”14% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Food Grade Castor Oil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.