Household Ingredients Compared › Canned Baked Beans (Singapore)

Canned baked beans: what's actually in it?

Baked beans are beans in tomato sauce, and the differences are in the bean, the sauce and the sweetener. The Singapore shelf is Heinz (UK recipe, made in England) against Ayam Brand (big great northern beans, made in Vietnam for the Singapore market), with Hunt's, SPC, FairPrice house brand and a few parallel imports alongside. Heinz leads with beans and tomatoes; Ayam leads with beans and sugar — the sauce recipes are genuinely different, not just differently labelled.

This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed and flags added sugar, salt and allergens.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Heinz is beans first, tomatoes second. The UK recipe panelled here is beans 51%, tomatoes 34%, then water, sugar, modified cornflour, vinegar, salt and condiments.
Ayam uses bigger beans and more sugar up front. Its list is beans 50%, sugar, tomato paste 5% — sugar is the second ingredient, where Heinz puts tomatoes second.
The Singapore Heinz 220g can is a different recipe. FairPrice lists its origin as New Zealand and its ingredient section as the abbreviated 'Navy beans, Tomato sauce' — a different product from the 415g UK can, not a smaller size of the same one.
Ayam's cheese variant is real parmesan, 2%. The Ayam Baked Beans with Parmesan Cheese list adds parmesan cheese (2%) to the same base — the only flavoured Ayam variant panelled here.
No added sugar is a different Heinz. The UK Heinz No Added Sugar Beanz replaces sugar with steviol glycosides and adds paprika extract for colour — but its Singapore availability was not confirmed, so it is not panelled.

At a glance

Product	Pack size (as printed)	Beans	Second ingredient	Sweetener	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Heinz Beanz Original, 415g	415 g	Beans 51%	Tomatoes 34%	Sugar	England
Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce, 220g	220 g	Navy beans	Tomato sauce	Not stated in list retrieved	New Zealand
Ayam Brand Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce, 425g	425 g	Beans 50%	Sugar	Sugar	Vietnam (SG listing)
Ayam Brand Baked Beans with Parmesan Cheese, 230g	230 g	Beans 50%	Sugar	Sugar	not stated
Heinz Beanz No Added Sugar (UK)	—	Beans 48%	Tomatoes 37%	Steviol glycosides	UK (SG availability unconfirmed)

Panelled with verbatim lists: 4 products. Seen but not verified: 8 products. Checked 12 November 2026. No prices are shown here: they change weekly and would go stale.

Panelled products

Heinz Beanz — Original, 415g

Pack size: 415 g · Made in: England (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section (SG listing) + Open Food Facts UK (nutrition)): Beans (51%), Tomatoes (34%), Water, Sugar, Modified Cornflour, Vinegar, Salt, Condiments

FairPrice's description says 'Made in England' and 'British recipe'. The FairPrice list says 'Modified Cornflour, Vinegar' while the Open Food Facts UK list for the same barcode gives 'Spirit Vinegar, Modified Cornflour' plus 'Spice Extracts, Herb Extract' instead of the single word 'Condiments' — same recipe, different labelling detail. Panelled list is the FairPrice one; the OFF variant wording is noted here, not merged. Origin: England Allergen: none stated Via: FairPrice

Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce, 220g

Pack size: 220 g · Made in: New Zealand (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section (SG listing)): Navy beans, Tomato sauce

Flag: the FairPrice ingredient section retrieved for this can is abbreviated to two items — it is not a full verbatim pack list. Origin: New Zealand (per FairPrice). This is a different recipe/origin from the 415g UK can and is panelled as its own product; a full SG pack list is still needed. Origin: New Zealand List abbreviated Via: FairPrice

Ayam Brand Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce, 425g

Pack size: 425 g · Made in: Vietnam (SG listing) (as printed)

Ingredients (Ayam Brand official site (MY) for the list; Shopee SG listings for origin and per-serving nutrition): Beans (50%), sugar, tomato paste (5%), stabiliser (modified corn starch), salt, vinegar, spice (maltodextrins, sugar, onion, garlic, canola oil, cinnamon)

Shopee SG listings for the same product give a shorter list — 'Beans, Sugar, Tomato Paste, Modified Starch, Salt, Vinegar, Mixed Spices (Contains Onion and Garlic Powder)' — and state origin Vietnam. The brand-site list above is the fuller one and is panelled; the SG listing's shorter wording is noted, not merged. No preservatives, no added MSG (brand). Halal. Origin: Vietnam (SG listing) Halal Via: brand + Shopee SG

Ayam Brand Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce with Parmesan Cheese, 230g

Pack size: 230 g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Ayam Brand official site (MY)): Beans (50%), sugar, tomato paste (4%), parmesan cheese (2%), stabiliser (modified cornstarch), salt, spice (maltodextrin, sugar, onion, garlic, canola oil, cinnamon)

The cheese variant: same base as the plain Ayam beans, tomato paste drops from 5% to 4%, parmesan cheese added at 2%. Flag: brand-site (MY) list; the SG pack for this variant was not verified in this pass. Contains milk (parmesan). Allergen: milk Via: brand (MY) SG pack unverified

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Heinz Beanz No Added Sugar, 415g (UK) — Open Food Facts UK list retrieved (Beans 48%, Tomatoes 37%, Water, Cornflour, Modified Cornflour, Salt, Antioxidant — Ascorbic Acid, Colour — Paprika Extract, Natural Flavouring, Spice Extracts, Sweetener — Steviol Glycosides from Stevia, Herb Extract) but Singapore availability not confirmed; not panelled.
Heinz Baked Beans 555g (Australia/NZ recipe) — Open Food Facts list retrieved (Tomato Sauce 51% [Tomatoes 29%, Water, Sugar, Salt, Maize Thickener (1422), Food Acids (260, 330), Flavours], Navy Beans 49%) but this is a different market's recipe; SG pack not verified; not panelled.
Hunt's Baked Beans — listed in Singapore; no SG ingredient list retrieved.
SPC Baked Beans — sold in Singapore via import channels; no SG ingredient list retrieved.
FairPrice house-brand baked beans — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient list retrieved.
Ayam Brand Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce, 230g — same product as the panelled 425g in a smaller can; the 230g SG pack list was not separately verified, so it is not panelled as its own row.
Heinz Beanz Snap Pots / 4 x 200g multipack — UK formats; SG availability not confirmed.
Bush's Best Baked Beans and other US brands — sold via parallel import on Lazada/Shopee; no SG-verified lists retrieved.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the first table are as sold, per 100 g / 100 ml. Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Sodium is not presented as salt, and salt is not presented as sodium.

Total vs added sugars: most Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as “added sugar”. Where a source states an added-sugars figure separately, it is noted. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, molasses, honey) versus naturally occurring sugars (fructose in fruit, lactose in milk).

Open Food Facts is a community database and is flagged as secondary where used: the pack and the retailer nutrition section take precedence if they disagree. Figures marked “not stated” were not in the source retrieved; they are not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours. No Nutri-Grade is quoted or assigned on this page: Nutri-Grade applies to drinks, and none of these products carries a printed Nutri-Grade on its Singapore pack as verified in this pass.

Product ↕	Energy ↕	Protein ↕	Total fat ↕	Saturated fat ↕	Carbohydrate ↕	Sugars ↕	Sodium (salt equiv.) ↕
Heinz Beanz Original, 415g	78 kcal	4.7 g	0.2 g	0 g	12.5 g	4.7 g	240 mg (salt 0.6 g)

Click a column header to sort low to high; click again for high to low. “not stated” always sorts last — it is missing data, not zero.

Per-serving figures only (not per 100g/ml — do not compare with the table above)

Product	Serving size	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Ayam Brand Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce	106 g	100 kcal	3.9 g	1.0 g	0.2 g	19.0 g	7.3 g	316 mg (salt 0.79 g)

These figures are quoted exactly as printed, per serving, and are never converted to per-100g/ml by guessing.

Conflicts flagged, not silently resolved: Heinz 415g — FairPrice lists 'Condiments' where Open Food Facts UK lists 'Spice Extracts, Herb Extract', and FairPrice lists 'Vinegar' where OFF lists 'Spirit Vinegar'. These read as the same recipe with different labelling detail, not different recipes; both wordings are recorded, the FairPrice one panelled. Ayam — the brand-site list (beans 50%, tomato paste 5%, spice with maltodextrins and cinnamon) and the Shopee SG short list (beans, sugar, tomato paste, modified starch, salt, vinegar, mixed spices) differ in order and detail; the fuller brand list is panelled and the SG wording noted.

Seen but not verified (nutrition):

Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce 220g (New Zealand) — no nutrition panel verified.
Ayam Brand Baked Beans with Parmesan Cheese — no nutrition panel verified.
Heinz No Added Sugar (UK) and Heinz 555g (AU/NZ recipe) — not panelled, so no nutrition tabled.
Hunt's, SPC, FairPrice house brand — no nutrition panels verified.

How to read a canned baked beans label — the jargon, in plain English

Navy beans vs great northern beans: Heinz uses small navy beans; Ayam uses larger great northern beans, imported from the USA per the brand. The bean variety is a real difference, not a labelling quirk.
Modified cornflour / modified corn starch: A thickener that gives the sauce its body. 'Modified cornflour' (UK labelling) and 'modified corn starch' (US/MY labelling) are the same class of ingredient.
Condiments / spice extracts / herb extract: Heinz's catch-all terms for the seasoning blend. The exact spices are not disclosed on the pack.
Steviol glycosides: A sweetener from stevia, used in the Heinz No Added Sugar variant instead of sugar. It is a sweetener, not a sugar — the product still contains tomato sugars.
Healthier Choice: Singapore's Health Promotion Board symbol, printed on the Ayam Brand can. It is a labelling scheme, not an ingredient.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. This page does not rank products.
Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
Not complete. The products in seen-but-not-verified are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden.

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: FairPrice ingredient sections (Heinz Beanz Original 415g; Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce 220g, abbreviated list, origin New Zealand); Open Food Facts UK (Heinz Beanz 415g nutrition per 100g; Heinz No Added Sugar list; Heinz 555g AU/NZ list); Ayam Brand official site MY (Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce and with Parmesan Cheese lists); Shopee SG listings (Ayam origin Vietnam, per-serving nutrition 106g). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so its baked-bean range could not be verified from its site. No pack photos were available for this pass.