Top D2C Food & Drink Brands (August 2026)
Commerce Gantry tracks 3 food & drink brands that sell direct to consumers, from United States. In the August 2026 edition, Mountain House leads the category on Scale. Ratio has the strongest Momentum.
A 0–100 score built from branded search (35%), site traffic (35%) and social following (30%).
It uses a log scale, so a brand 10 times bigger scores roughly 30 points higher. Higher means bigger.
Scale is size, Momentum is direction: a small brand can grow fast, and a big one can be shrinking.
How scoring works →Year-on-year growth in branded search, site traffic and social, over the last 12 months and the last 3 months.
50 means flat. Above 50 is growing (a brand that doubled scores about 88); below 50 is shrinking (halved scores about 12).
Scale is size, Momentum is direction: a small brand can grow fast, and a big one can be shrinking.
How scoring works →Whether we estimate the brand's revenue is growing, flat or shrinking compared with a year earlier, from the online signals most tied to sales: branded search and site traffic, weighted towards the last three months.
It is a direction of travel, not a figure. We can't see prices, conversion, or sales through retailers and Amazon, so confidence is lower for brands that sell mostly through stockists, or when the signals disagree.
Scale is size, Momentum is direction: a small brand can grow fast, and a big one can be shrinking.
How scoring works →| 143 | Mountain House US | 45.0 | 44 | →flat |
| 198 | Peak Refuel US | 37.7 | 46 | →flat |
| 220 | Ratio US | 34.5 | 61 | ↑growing |
No brands match.
The brands
- Mountain House · United States
Freeze-dried meals for camping, hunting and emergency food storage
- Peak Refuel · United States
Freeze-dried meals and snacks for backpacking and camping.
- Ratio · United States
Automatic pour-over style coffee machines for home brewing.
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