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Leading Packaged Foods & Beverages Brands in AI Search in China

The Packaged Foods & Beverages index re-ranked using only prompts and answers from China.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, The Coca-Cola Company leads AI search visibility in Packaged Foods & Beverages in China with a Goodie visibility score of 77.9, ahead of PepsiCo Inc. (77.2) and Acqua Panna (58.3). The median score across the 23 ranked brands is 19.6, and a score above 37.8 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is statista.com at 5.1% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 14.2%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Packaged Foods & Beverages · China
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
19.6
Half of the 23 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 71.9
Score to enter the top 10
37.8
Clearing 37.8 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 18.1 points above the midpoint, so the leaderboard is tightly held.
Brands named per answer
9.4
A typical answer names nine brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.9
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 4%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 10%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 81%
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
14.2%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
56/100
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
23 ranked here · 1,221 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
01The Coca-Cola Company
77.9
10.2%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 7.457mordorintelligence.com
02PepsiCo Inc.
77.2
10.1%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.160mordorintelligence.com
03Acqua Panna
58.3
7.6%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity▲ 2.066researchandmarkets.com
04Mondelēz
57.3
7.5%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity▲ 3.071bakeryandsnacks.com
05Nestlé
56.0
7.3%AI ModeChatGPTPerplexity—63mordorintelligence.com
06Fiji Water
40.3
5.3%AI ModeCopilot—68fortunebusinessinsights.com
07Evian
40.2
5.2%AI ModeCopilot▲ 2.260fortunebusinessinsights.com
08Heinz
39.2
5.1%CopilotPerplexity▲ 1.560morningconsult.com
09San Pellegrino
37.9
5.0%CopilotPerplexity▲ 2.069fortunebusinessinsights.com
10Coca-Cola Company
37.8
4.9%AI ModeCopilot—64statista.com
23 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
01statista.com
5.1%
▲ 6.3
02halalkosher.com
5.0%
—
03youtube.com
4.5%
—
04wikipedia.org
4.4%
—
05annualreports.com
3.6%
—
06publicnow.com
3.6%
—
07sommcademy.com
3.6%
—
08facebook.com
3.6%
—
09alibaba.com
3.4%
—
10foodtalks.cn
3.4%
—
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
01Which beverage brands dominate global markets?130124
02Bottled water brands perceived as premium102121
03Snack food companies with strong distribution97120
04Halal food manufacturers with certification97118
05哪家清真食品厂的认证是能查到的?08
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
▲ 7.4
VOSSscore 18.3
▲ 4.2
Mondelēzscore 57.3
▲ 3.0
Falling

No falling brands this month.

9 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±2.9/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
2,427,107 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Packaged Foods & Beverages, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States1.3M
02United Kingdom297K
03Germany202K
04France154K
05Canada125K
06Australia121K
07Japan84K
08Italy71K
09Singapore25K
10Egypt23K
11Saudi Arabia17K
12United Arab Emirates14K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

The Coca-Cola Company leads Packaged Foods & Beverages this edition with a visibility score of 77.9, ahead of PepsiCo Inc. at 77.2.

statista.com is the most-cited source grounding packaged foods & beverages answers, at roughly 5.1% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 14.2% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked packaged foods & beverages brands is 19.6, and a score above 37.8 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

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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The Coca-Cola Company currently leads AI search visibility in packaged foods & beverages with a Goodie visibility score of 77.9, measured across the tracked AI models.

statista.com is the most-cited source in packaged foods & beverages AI answers, grounding roughly 5.1% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked packaged foods & beverages brands is 19.6. A score above 37.8 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.