Household Ingredients Compared  ›  Bacon (Singapore)

Bacon: what's actually in it?

Most bacon on the Singapore shelf is the same idea with small variations: pork (belly for streaky, loin for back), cured with water, salt, sugar, a phosphate, an antioxidant (sodium ascorbate or sodium erythorbate) and a nitrite or nitrate preservative, then smoked or left unsmoked. The differences that matter are the cut (streaky vs back), whether it is smoked, whether it is cured with nitrite/nitrate or "uncured" with celery juice, and whether a flavour cure (maple, honey, applewood) is added. Turkey bacon and beef bacon are different meats altogether — they are not pork bacon with a different label.

This page covers bacon sold in Singapore — streaky, back, smoked, unsmoked, maple/honey cured, turkey bacon, beef bacon and bacon bits — chilled and frozen. Ham, sausages and other cold cuts are excluded; they have separate pages. This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick, and it shows no prices.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• No verbatim Singapore pack list was retrieved in this pass for any Singapore house-brand or Singapore-packed bacon. FairPrice Bacon (Streaky, Back, Bits), Kelly's, Tradition and Jill's Sausages were all inventoried at FairPrice, but no full FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for any of them. Kelly's Streaky Bacon (Frozen) on FairPrice shows only "Contains Pork" in the retrieved snippet — that is an allergen-style note, not a verbatim ingredient list, so it is not panelled.
• The only full lists retrieved are US label transcriptions for Oscar Mayer, sold in Singapore at Cold Storage. All six panelled rows below are flagged as US-label lists, not verbatim Singapore pack transcriptions. An SG pack photo is still needed for each of them before the SG pack list can be stated.
• The standard cure is the same across the Oscar Mayer pork rows: water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphate(s), sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite. Thick Cut uses the same cure as the regular Naturally Hardwood Smoked row. Maple adds maple flavour; it does not change the rest of the cure.
• "Uncured" does not mean uncured meat. Oscar Mayer Selects Smoked Uncured Bacon lists pork, water, sea salt, sugar, cultured celery juice and natural cherry powder, with the label note that there are no added nitrates or nitrites except those naturally occurring in celery juice and sea salt. Celery juice is the source of the nitrite here.
• No turkey bacon, beef bacon or chicken bacon list was verified in this pass. FairPrice's bacon search offers "turkey bacon", "beef bacon" and "chicken bacon" as suggestions, but no specific product with a verbatim list was retrieved for any of them. They stay seen-but-not-verified.
• Research limit, stated plainly: after the first searches on 5 November 2026 the search service returned rate-limit (429) errors and a further FairPrice product-page fetch also returned 429, so FairPrice ingredient sections, Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee Singapore could not be fully inventoried in this pass. This page therefore does not claim a complete Singapore inventory. The gaps are listed below, not hidden.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 6 products. All six are flagged US-label transcriptions (see each card); none is a verbatim Singapore pack transcription. Seen-but-not-verified: 22 products — see the list below.

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Smoked pork bacon — Oscar Mayer (US label, sold at Cold Storage Singapore)

US-only example — not a Singapore shelf claim

FairPrice — inventory (5 November 2026)

FairPrice's bacon search page (opened 5 November 2026) lists bacon across Singapore, USA, France, Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Canada, China, Peru and Indonesia origins, with brand filters including Kelly's, FairPrice, Jill's Sausages, Tradition, Hormel, Golden Bridge, Ryan's Grocery, Delicato and others. The specific bacon products inventoried there are in seen-but-not-verified below. FairPrice publishes an ingredient section only sometimes — for the bacon products in this pass, no full ingredient section was retrieved. The search page itself gives names and sizes only; it is an inventory source, not a panel source.

• FairPrice house brand: Bacon — Streaky 200g; Bacon — Back 200g; Bacon Bits 190g.
• Kelly's: Streaky Bacon — Frozen (CTN, 10 × 500g, Netherlands origin, packed by Golden Bridge Foods Manufacturing, Singapore); Back Bacon — Frozen (CTN); Streaky Bacon — Chilled (CTN).
• Tradition: Bacon — Streaky 300g; Bacon — Bits 190g.
• Jill's Sausages: Applewood Smoked Streaky Bacon (Nitrite Free) 250g.
• Hormel: appears as a FairPrice brand filter for bacon, but no specific Hormel bacon product name/size was confirmed from the retrieved search page in this pass.

Cold Storage — inventory (from promotions, 2025–2026)

Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page (as established on the orange-juice page), so this section is an inventory from Cold Storage weekly promotions, not panels. Nothing below is panelled from Cold Storage's site.

• Oscar Mayer (USA): Lower Sodium / Original / Thick Cut Bacon, 12oz/16oz (promotion 24–30 September 2026). Original and Thick Cut are panelled above from US labels; Lower Sodium is not.
• Burger's Smokehouse / Dietz & Watson (USA): Bacon / Cold Cut Assorted, 198g/12oz (promotions 14–20 May 2026 and 29 October–4 November 2026); Burger's Smokehouse Bacon, Applewood or Original, 340g (promotion 9–15 October 2025).
• Superfresh: Danish bacon, listed as sold at Cold Storage (Danish brands in Singapore list).
• Wicks Manor: Smoked / Unsmoked Bacon, 250g (promotion 6–12 November 2025).

Other channels — not fully inventoried in this pass

Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee Singapore were not fully inventoried for bacon in this pass: the search service rate-limited (429) after the first searches on 5 November 2026, and a further FairPrice product-page fetch also returned 429. No inventory claim is made for those channels here. A RedMart mention of Hormel Canadian Bacon and of RedMart Streaky Bacon appears only in a garbled secondary result and is not treated as verified inventory. These channels need a fresh inventory pass, plus in-store pack photography, before this page can claim an extensive Singapore inventory.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• FairPrice Bacon — Streaky 200g — FairPrice house brand; no ingredient section retrieved.
• FairPrice Bacon — Back 200g — FairPrice house brand; no ingredient section retrieved.
• FairPrice Bacon Bits 190g — FairPrice house brand; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Kelly's Streaky Bacon — Frozen (CTN) — FairPrice snippet gives only "Contains Pork", Netherlands origin, packed by Golden Bridge Foods Manufacturing Pte. Ltd., Singapore; that is not a verbatim list.
• Kelly's Back Bacon — Frozen (CTN) — FairPrice listing name only; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Kelly's Streaky Bacon — Chilled (CTN) — FairPrice listing name only; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Tradition Bacon — Streaky 300g — FairPrice listing name only; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Tradition Bacon — Bits 190g — FairPrice listing name only; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Jill's Sausages Applewood Smoked Streaky Bacon (Nitrite Free) 250g — FairPrice listing name only; "nitrite free" is a product-name claim, not a verified list — its curing method needs the pack.
• Oscar Mayer Lower Sodium Bacon — sold at Cold Storage; no list retrieved; do not assume it shares the Original cure.
• Burger's Smokehouse Bacon — Applewood Smoked 340g — Cold Storage; no list retrieved.
• Burger's Smokehouse Bacon — Original 340g — Cold Storage; no list retrieved.
• Dietz & Watson Bacon (assorted) — Cold Storage promotion listing; no specific product or list retrieved.
• Superfresh Danish Bacon — Cold Storage; no list retrieved.
• Wicks Manor Smoked Bacon 250g — Cold Storage promotion; no list retrieved.
• Wicks Manor Unsmoked Bacon 250g — Cold Storage promotion; no list retrieved.
• Hormel Bacon — FairPrice brand filter only; no specific SG product name/size confirmed in this pass.
• Hormel Bacon Bits — name appears in secondary results only; no SG listing or list verified.
• Hormel Canadian Bacon — RedMart mention in a garbled secondary result only; not verified.
• Turkey bacon — FairPrice search suggestion only; no specific SG product or list verified.
• Beef bacon — FairPrice search suggestion only; no specific SG product or list verified.
• Chicken bacon — FairPrice search suggestion only; no specific SG product or list verified. (Chicken bacon is not pork bacon; verify separately if added.)

Non-SG lists found but not panelled, because no Singapore sale was verified: Simon Howie Streaky Smoked Bacon (UK, Open Food Facts — pork 96%, sea salt, sugar, yeast extract, preservatives sodium nitrate/sodium nitrite, antioxidant sodium ascorbate); Birchwood Smoked Streaky Bacon 300g (UK, Open Food Facts — pork 87%, water, salt, antioxidant sodium ascorbate, preservatives sodium nitrite/potassium nitrate); Ocado Smoked Back Bacon (UK, Open Food Facts — pork 87%, water, salt, antioxidant sodium ascorbate, preservatives sodium nitrite/potassium nitrate). See research notes for full details.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

No per-100g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for any panelled product, so no nutrition table is given here. The sources retrieved for the panelled lists (EWG / LabelINSIGHT label transcriptions, Hy-Vee retailer listing, Open Food Facts US entry) gave ingredient lists only in the retrieved text — no energy, protein, total fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugars or sodium figures were retrieved. No figures are estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied from a typical-bacon value.

Raw vs cooked basis: not stated in any source retrieved in this pass. Bacon nutrition is usually printed as sold (raw) on Singapore packs, with cooking changing the per-100g values as fat renders — but that is a general note, not a figure from a pack in this pass. The basis must be recorded from each SG pack when the packs are photographed.

Total vs added sugars: Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar here: sugar appears in the cure of every panelled pork row, so the sugars in those products are not all naturally occurring. No added-sugars figure was retrieved for any row.

Nutri-Grade: no Nutri-Grade was found printed on any bacon listing in this pass, and none is assigned here. Nutri-Grade is a drinks labelling scheme in Singapore; it is not a bacon grade.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): all 6 panelled products (Oscar Mayer Naturally Hardwood Smoked, Oscar Mayer Thick Cut Naturally Hardwood Smoked, Oscar Mayer Maple, Oscar Mayer Fully Cooked Thick Cut Maple, Oscar Mayer Selects Smoked Uncured, Farmland Bacon US example) and all 22 seen-but-not-verified products above. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here.

How to read a bacon label — the jargon, in plain English

Streaky bacon

Cut from pork belly — streaks of fat through the meat. Crisps up when fried; the fat is part of the product, not an addition.

Back bacon

Cut from pork loin (the back) — leaner, meatier, with less fat than streaky. The UK/Irish breakfast rasher; in Singapore it is sold alongside streaky, not instead of it.

Smoked / unsmoked

Smoked bacon has been exposed to wood smoke (e.g. applewood, hardwood) for flavour; unsmoked (sometimes called green bacon) has not. Smoking does not change the cure list much — the smoke flavour may or may not be listed separately.

Cured / "uncured"

Curing is preserving the meat with salt and nitrite/nitrate. "Uncured" on a label usually means no sodium nitrite/nitrate was added directly — nitrite instead comes from a natural source such as cultured celery juice. The meat is still cured in effect.

Sodium nitrite (E250) / sodium nitrate (E251) / potassium nitrate (E252)

Curing preservatives. They keep the pink colour and prevent the growth of Clostridium botulinum. Their presence or absence is the main preservative difference between rows on this page.

Sodium ascorbate / sodium erythorbate

Antioxidants used in curing. Oscar Mayer uses sodium ascorbate; Farmland uses sodium erythorbate. They are related curing aids, not sweeteners or flavourings.

Sodium phosphates

Added in the cure to hold water in the meat. They are why a cured bacon list starts with water after the pork.

Maple / honey cure

A flavour cure: maple flavour (natural, artificial, or both) or honey is added to the standard cure. It adds sugar/flavour; it does not replace the salt, phosphate or nitrite.

Turkey bacon / beef bacon

Bacon-style products made from turkey or beef instead of pork. They are different meats with different lists — do not read a pork bacon list onto them.

Bacon bits

Fully-cooked, crumbled or chopped bacon sold as a topping. The list is a cooked-bacon list, not a raw rasher list, and the pack is a different product from sliced bacon even under the same brand.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Smoked, unsmoked, cured and "uncured" bacon are different products, and this page does not rank them.
• Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
• Not complete. No Singapore pack list was verified in this pass, and Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee Singapore were not fully inventoried — for the rate-limit reason given above, not hidden. The FairPrice and Cold Storage inventories above are the extent of the inventory in this pass.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice bacon search page (opened 5 November 2026 — inventory only, names/sizes, no ingredient sections retrieved); FairPrice Kelly's Streaky Bacon — Frozen product snippet ("Contains Pork" only); EWG Food Scores / LabelINSIGHT US label transcriptions for Oscar Mayer Naturally Hardwood Smoked, Thick Cut Naturally Hardwood Smoked, Maple, and Fully Cooked Thick Cut Maple; Hy-Vee US retailer listing for Oscar Mayer Selects Smoked Uncured Bacon; Open Food Facts US entry for Farmland Bacon; Cold Storage weekly promotions via syioknya.com / everydayonsales.com (Oscar Mayer, Burger's Smokehouse, Dietz & Watson, Wicks Manor); Danish brands in Singapore list (Superfresh at Cold Storage); Open Food Facts UK entries for Simon Howie, Birchwood and Ocado back bacon (not panelled). Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Research limit: browser search returned 429 rate-limit errors after the first searches on 5 November 2026, and a FairPrice product-page fetch also returned 429, so no further retailer ingredient sections could be retrieved in this pass. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: no per-100g figures were verified, so no nutrition table is given; per-serving-only figures would be labelled as such and never converted; sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars; salt = sodium × 2.5. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.