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Protein Powder

Pass

Protein Powder scores 69 out of 100, a Pass. Shoppers spend an estimated $86.0M a year here, search demand grew +8.2% this quarter, and an estimated 0.0% of orders come back.

Flapen Score
69
69 / 100
Top 2% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +20 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$86.0M/yr44.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
+8.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
27%top-5 click share · 26 brands · 692 sellers

Flapen Score

Protein Powder against its category

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

69Pass
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Protein Powder market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Protein Powder 44.8M times last year and spent an estimated $86.0M. The top 5 brands take 70% of clicks. Flapen scores it 69 out of 100, a Pass.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 44.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +8.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $86.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
44.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+8.2%
Conversion, latest week
4.3%
Market size, estimated
$86.0Ma year
Peak month
July1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
protein powder22.5M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $44.54.

Listings sell for $44.54 on average, from $16.37 to $95.09. 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 $44.54 that is $1.1M to $1.3M a year per listing.

Average price
$44.54inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$16.37–$95.09
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
$1.1M–$1.3M
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

77% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 99% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #37 within Protein. It carries 17,648 reviews at 4.53 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
77%
Prime listings
99%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#37in Protein
Average rating
4.53 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
17,648per listing
Listings tracked
79

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 72 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Products

Top Protein Powder 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 27% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

26 falling

Sellers

692

Top-5 brand share

70%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

27%

Top 20: 60%

Open market

26%

  • Brand 135%
  • Brand 212%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Protein Powder search demand

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

1.8M1.3MPrime Day '24Spike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Protein Powder search terms shoppers use

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

  • protein powder22.5M/yr
  • protein6.1M/yr
  • whey protein powder4.4M/yr
  • whey protein2.3M/yr
  • whey protein isolate1.2M/yr
  • vanilla protein powder1.3M/yr
  • optimum nutrition whey protein1.1M/yr
  • chocolate protein powder647K/yr
  • proteina670K/yr
  • dymatize iso 100532K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Protein Powder

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
22%of negative reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Chalky taste”
A buyer, on “Taste-Overall”22% 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 Protein Powder questions

Answered from the same tracked data.