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Protein Bars

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $27.0M a year here. But the average product has 6,564 reviews to catch up to, so Protein Bars is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
64
64 / 100
Top 5% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +15 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$27.0M/yr19.3M searches / yr
90-day growth
+1.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
47%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 650 sellers

Flapen Score

Protein Bars against its category

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

64Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Protein Bars market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Protein Bars 19.3M times last year and spent an estimated $27.0M. The top 5 brands take 83% of clicks. Demand peaks in Apr. Flapen scores it 64 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 19.3M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +1.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $27.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
19.3M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+1.6%
Conversion, latest week
7.4%
Market size, estimated
$27.0Ma year
Peak month
April1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
protein bars10.1M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $18.93.

Listings sell for $18.93 on average, from $2.33 to $38.16. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 25,000 to 30,000 of them. At $18.93 that is $473K to $568K a year per listing.

Average price
$18.93inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.33–$38.16
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
25,000–30,000
Revenue per listing a year
$473K–$568K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #38 within Nutrition Bars & Drinks. It carries 6,564 reviews at 4.44 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#38in Nutrition Bars & Drinks
Average rating
4.44 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
6,564per listing
Listings tracked
36

04 · Newcomers

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

5 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 68 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Products

Top Protein Bars 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 8, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 47% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$1.4M$2.7M$4.1M$5.4M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

15 falling

Sellers

650

Est. top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

47%

Top 20: 81%

Open market

14%

  • Quest39%
  • Pure Protein33%
  • CLIF BUILDER'S5%
  • Nature Valley3%
  • CLIF Bar3%
  • Built Bar2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (9 brands, 14%)

Demand

Protein Bars search demand

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

600K400KPrime Day '24Spike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Apr · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Protein Bars search terms shoppers use

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

  • protein bars10.1M/yr
  • quest protein bar2.1M/yr
  • protein bar1.7M/yr
  • pure protein bars1.2M/yr
  • quest1.0M/yr
  • protein bars low sugar high protein553K/yr
  • quest bars404K/yr
  • pure protein304K/yr
  • vegan protein bars306K/yr
  • high protein bars247K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Protein Bars

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

33%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
“gross 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.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Protein Bars 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