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Leading Packaged Foods & Beverages Brands in AI Search in Australia

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only Perplexity answers.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, General Mills leads AI search visibility in Packaged Foods & Beverages on Perplexity in Australia with a Goodie visibility score of 84.2, ahead of Hershey’s (83.5) and Campbell's (83.4). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 83.1, and a score above 80.4 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is kenresearch.com at 5.5% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 11.9%.

33k prompts · 2.4m AI answers · 11.5m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Packaged Foods & Beverages · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
83.1
Half of the 10 ranked packaged foods & beverages brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 76.1
Score to enter the top 10
80.4
Clearing 80.4 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 2.7 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
8.0
A typical answer names eight brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.0
Citation mix
  • UGC 4%
  • Editorial 1%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 9%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 83%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding packaged foods & beverages answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
11.9%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
42/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
33k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.4m
223k in October · ▼ 12.5% vs September
Citations parsed
11.5m
1m in October · ▲ 9.1% vs September
Brands observed
1,244
10 ranked here · 1,234 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Packaged Foods & Beverages, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01General Mills
84.2
10.2%Perplexity—47bakeryandsnacks.com
02Hershey’s
83.5
10.1%Perplexity—62coherentmarketinsights.com
03Campbell's
83.4
10.1%Perplexity—27as.com
04Mars
83.3
10.1%Perplexity▼ 8.836bakeryandsnacks.com
05San Pellegrino
83.1
10.1%Perplexity▼ 9.629tastingtable.com
06Mondelēz
83.1
10.1%Perplexity▼ 4.359bakeryandsnacks.com
07Perrier
81.9
9.9%Perplexity▼ 14.010tastingtable.com
08VOSS
81.8
9.9%Perplexity▼ 12.157tastingtable.com
09PepsiCo Inc.
81.4
9.9%Perplexity▼ 8.957bakeryandsnacks.com
10Fiji Water
80.4
9.7%Perplexity▼ 14.040tastingtable.com
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Packaged Foods & Beverages
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01kenresearch.com
5.5%
—
02marketdataforecast.com
4.5%
—
03researchandmarkets.com
3.7%
—
04daganghalal.com
3.6%
—
05foodnavigator.com
3.6%
—
06mordorintelligence.com
3.4%
▲ 1.7
07verityrank.com
3.1%
▲ 1.7
08youtube.com
3.1%
—
09linkedin.com
2.7%
—
10accio.com
2.7%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Packaged Foods & Beverages, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Halal food manufacturers with certification2946
02Snack food companies with strong distribution3340
03Which beverage brands dominate global markets?4138
04Bottled water brands perceived as premium2932
05Packaged food brands consumers trust3326
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
Fiji Waterscore 80.4
▼ 14.0
Perrierscore 81.9
▼ 14.0
VOSSscore 81.8
▼ 12.1
7 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±10.2/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
43,907 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Packaged Foods & Beverages, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States30K
02United Kingdom6K
03Germany2K
04Australia1K
05France1K
06Canada971
07Japan929
08Italy686
09Singapore241
10Egypt219
11Saudi Arabia173
12United Arab Emirates123
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

General Mills leads Packaged Foods & Beverages this edition with a visibility score of 84.2, ahead of Hershey’s at 83.5.

kenresearch.com is the most-cited source grounding packaged foods & beverages answers, at roughly 5.5% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 11.9% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked packaged foods & beverages brands is 83.1, and a score above 80.4 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Packaged Foods & Beverages

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General Mills currently leads AI search visibility in packaged foods & beverages with a Goodie visibility score of 84.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

kenresearch.com is the most-cited source in packaged foods & beverages AI answers, grounding roughly 5.5% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked packaged foods & beverages brands is 83.1. A score above 80.4 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.