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Leading Packaged Foods & Beverages Brands in AI Search in the United States

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Fiji Water leads AI search visibility in Packaged Foods & Beverages in United States with a Goodie visibility score of 80.2, ahead of PepsiCo Inc. (79.8) and The Coca-Cola Company (60.3). The median score across the 22 ranked brands is 20.5, and a score above 20.7 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is google.com at 6.1% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 13.2%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Packaged Foods & Beverages · United States
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
20.5
Half of the 22 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 73.0
Score to enter the top 10
20.7
Clearing 20.7 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 0.2 points above the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
11.8
A typical answer names twelve brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.2
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 3%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 10%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 82%
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
13.2%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
53/100
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
22 ranked here · 1,222 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
01Fiji Water
80.2
10.1%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity—59grandviewresearch.com
02PepsiCo Inc.
79.8
10.1%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.862mordorintelligence.com
03The Coca-Cola Company
60.3
7.6%AI ModeChatGPTPerplexity—55sunsipbeverages.com.vn
04Mondelēz
60.0
7.6%AI ModeChatGPTCopilot▲ 0.768mordorintelligence.com
05Evian
59.8
7.6%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity▼ 2.962grandviewresearch.com
06Coca-Cola Company
59.6
7.5%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity▲ 3.364statista.com
07Heinz
58.6
7.4%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity▲ 2.255newsweek.com
08Campbell's
41.0
5.2%AI ModePerplexity—43dairyprocessing.com
09Kellogg's
38.6
4.9%AI ModeChatGPT—37foodindustryexecutive.com
10San Pellegrino
20.7
2.6%Perplexity▼ 3.249grandviewresearch.com
22 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
01google.com
6.1%
▲ 20.0
02wikipedia.org
4.8%
—
03brandfinance.com
4.5%
—
04finance.yahoo.com
4.5%
—
05linkedin.com
3.9%
—
06brandirectory.com
3.6%
—
07researchandmarkets.com
3.6%
—
08sphericalinsights.com
3.3%
—
09botledwater.com
3.2%
—
10market.us
3.2%
—
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
01Snack food companies with strong distribution127206
02Bottled water brands perceived as premium103151
03Halal food manufacturers with certification159148
04Which beverage brands dominate global markets?149138
05Packaged food brands consumers trust147107
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
▲ 3.3
Heinzscore 58.6
▲ 2.2
PepsiCo Inc.score 79.8
▲ 1.8
Falling
San Pellegrinoscore 20.7
▼ 3.2
Evianscore 59.8
▼ 2.9
VOSSscore 18.5
▼ 2.2
13 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±1.5/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

Fiji Water leads Packaged Foods & Beverages this edition with a visibility score of 80.2, ahead of PepsiCo Inc. at 79.8.

google.com is the most-cited source grounding packaged foods & beverages answers, at roughly 6.1% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 13.2% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked packaged foods & beverages brands is 20.5, and a score above 20.7 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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Fiji Water currently leads AI search visibility in packaged foods & beverages with a Goodie visibility score of 80.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

google.com is the most-cited source in packaged foods & beverages AI answers, grounding roughly 6.1% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked packaged foods & beverages brands is 20.5. A score above 20.7 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.