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Leading Packaged Foods & Beverages Brands in AI Search in Japan

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Mondelēz leads AI search visibility in Packaged Foods & Beverages on Perplexity in Japan with a Goodie visibility score of 83.3, ahead of Nestlé (82.8) and PepsiCo Inc. (82.6). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 81.1, and a score above 77.6 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is globalbrandsmagazine.com at 3.4% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 10.8%.

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
81.1
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 77.8
Score to enter the top 10
77.6
Clearing 77.6 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 3.4 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
6.8
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 6.5
Citation mix
  • UGC 2%
  • Editorial 1%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 6%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 88%
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
10.8%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
47/100
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
01Mondelēz
83.3
10.3%Perplexity▼ 9.544bakeryandsnacks.com
02Nestlé
82.8
10.2%Perplexity▼ 2.958knowledge-sourcing.com
03PepsiCo Inc.
82.6
10.2%Perplexity▲ 0.163knowledge-sourcing.com
04San Pellegrino
82.2
10.1%Perplexity▼ 12.038tastingtable.com
05Kraft
81.2
10.0%Perplexity▼ 11.526foodbusinessnews.net
06Fiji Water
81.0
10.0%Perplexity▼ 10.455amworldgroup.com
07Evian
80.9
10.0%Perplexity—23tastingtable.com
08Coca-Cola Company
80.4
9.9%Perplexity—69knowledge-sourcing.com
09The Coca-Cola Company
78.0
9.6%Perplexity—38futuremarketinsights.com
10Heinz
77.6
9.6%Perplexity—57dairyprocessing.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
01globalbrandsmagazine.com
3.4%
—
02halallab.jp
3.4%
—
03japanhalal.or.jp
3.4%
—
04kenresearch.com
3.4%
—
05marketdataforecast.com
3.4%
—
06premium-water.net
3.4%
—
07ufoodin.com
3.0%
—
08youtube.com
2.7%
—
09mordorintelligence.com
2.7%
—
10imarcgroup.com
2.6%
—
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 certification746
02Bottled water brands perceived as premium3645
03Snack food companies with strong distribution2831
04Which beverage brands dominate global markets?3830
05ハラル認証を自分で確認できる食品メーカーはどこ?1015
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
PepsiCo Inc.score 82.6
▲ 0.1
Falling
San Pellegrinoscore 82.2
▼ 12.0
Kraftscore 81.2
▼ 11.5
Fiji Waterscore 81.0
▼ 10.4
6 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±7.7/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

Mondelēz leads Packaged Foods & Beverages this edition with a visibility score of 83.3, ahead of Nestlé at 82.8.

globalbrandsmagazine.com is the most-cited source grounding packaged foods & beverages answers, at roughly 3.4% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 10.8% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked packaged foods & beverages brands is 81.1, and a score above 77.6 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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Mondelēz currently leads AI search visibility in packaged foods & beverages with a Goodie visibility score of 83.3, measured across the tracked AI models.

globalbrandsmagazine.com is the most-cited source in packaged foods & beverages AI answers, grounding roughly 3.4% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked packaged foods & beverages brands is 81.1. A score above 77.6 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.