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Canned chicken: what's actually in it?

In Singapore, canned chicken is almost entirely Ayam Brand's pulled-chicken range: shredded cooked chicken in a flavoured sauce, sold in 150 g cans at FairPrice and Sheng Siong. There is no plain canned chicken breast on the mainstream Singapore shelf the way there is canned tuna — every product here is a flavoured, ready-to-eat pulled chicken.

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

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At a glance

ProductPack size (as printed)First ingredientCountry of manufacture (as printed)Added sugar?
Ayam Pulled Chicken — Mayonnaise150gCooked chickennot statedYes — sugar
Ayam Pulled Chicken — Truffle Mayonnaise150gCooked chickennot statedYes — sugar
Ayam Pulled Chicken — Buffalo150gCooked chickennot statedYes — sugar
Ayam Pulled Chicken — Spicy Korean Gochujang Sauce150gCooked chicken (46%)not stated (MY brand site)Yes — sugar, glucose syrup

Panelled with verbatim lists: 4 products. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below. No prices are shown: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Panelled — Ayam Brand pulled chicken

Ayam Brand Pulled Chicken — Mayonnaise, 150 g

Pack size: 150g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Ayam Brand Singapore official site): Cooked chicken (chicken, rice bran oil, tapioca starch), water, soya bean oil, vinegar, sugar, sweet corn (corn kernel, water, sugar, salt), red spur pepper, green spur pepper, modified tapioca starch, salt, egg powder, edible gum. Contains soya bean and egg.

The plain mayonnaise flavour. Sweet corn is in the list, so this is not a plain chicken-and-mayo product. Country of manufacture: not stated Allergens: soya bean, egg No preservatives (brand guarantee)

Ayam Brand Pulled Chicken — Truffle Mayonnaise, 150 g

Pack size: 150g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Ayam Brand Singapore official site): Cooked chicken (chicken, rice bran oil, tapioca starch), water, soya bean oil, vinegar, sugar, modified tapioca starch, black pepper, salt, egg powder, truffle flavoured oil, edible gum. Contains soya bean, egg.

Same base as the plain Mayonnaise, with truffle flavoured oil instead of sweet corn and peppers. "Truffle" here is a flavoured oil, not truffle pieces. Country of manufacture: not stated Allergens: soya bean, egg Truffle flavoured oil, not truffle

Ayam Brand Pulled Chicken — Buffalo, 150 g

Pack size: 150g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Ayam Brand Singapore official site): Cooked chicken (chicken, rice bran oil, tapioca starch), water, pickled chilli paste (chilli, salt, acetic acid, paprika extract), garlic, vinegar, chilli, coriander leaves, modified tapioca starch, sugar, salt, edible gum, citric acid, paprika extract, capsicum oleoresin.

The spiciest panelled list: pickled chilli paste plus chilli, paprika extract and capsicum oleoresin. No egg powder in this flavour, unlike the mayonnaise flavours. Country of manufacture: not stated Allergens: none stated on retrieved page

Ayam Brand Pulled Chicken — Spicy Korean Gochujang Sauce, 150 g — Malaysian brand-site list, flagged

Pack size: 150g · Made in: not stated (MY brand site) (as printed)

Ingredients (Ayam Brand Malaysia official site (ayambrand.com.my)): Cooked chicken (46%) (chicken meat, soya bean oil, tapioca starch), water, gochujang paste (9%) (soya bean paste (soya bean, salt, wheat flour), glucose syrup, dried chilli, soya sauce (soya bean, salt, wheat flour), garlic, vinegar), sugar, onion, garlic, soya bean oil, thickener (modified cornstarch), fish sauce (fish extract, salt, sugar), soya sauce (soya bean, wheat flour), dried chilli, salt, flavour enhancer (yeast extract), sesame seeds, colouring (INS 160C).

Flag: this list is from Ayam Brand's Malaysian site; the Singapore site lists the flavour range but this flavour's SG ingredient section was not retrieved. Do not present it as the SG pack list without that flag. It is the longest list in the range and the only one with fish sauce, sesame and a colouring (INS 160C). Country of manufacture: not stated Allergens: soya, wheat, fish, sesame Flag: MY site, not SG site

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the sortable table are as sold, per 100 g / 100 ml. Click a column header to sort lowest-to-highest, click again for highest-to-lowest; "not stated" always sorts last, because a missing figure is not zero. Per-serving-only figures are in a separate table below and are never sorted against per-100 figures. No Nutri-Grade applies to these foods as non-drinks, except where a drink Nutri-Grade is officially printed — none is quoted or assigned here.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Where the source prints salt only, sodium is shown as salt ÷ 2.5 and flagged as derived. 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 syrup, invert sugar syrup) versus naturally occurring sugars.

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.

ProductEnergyProteinTotal fatSaturated fatCarbohydrateSugarsSodium (salt equiv.)
Ayam Pulled Chicken — Mayonnaise155 kcal15.5 g7.7 g1.4 g5.9 g4.9 g449 mg (salt 1.12 g)
Ayam Pulled Chicken — Truffle Mayonnaise169 kcal17.6 g8.7 g1.7 g5.0 g3.9 g352 mg (salt 0.88 g)

Observed numbers, no verdict: Truffle Mayonnaise lists 169 kcal per 100 g against Mayonnaise 155 kcal, with more protein (17.6 g vs 15.5 g) and less sodium (352 mg vs 449 mg). Both are per-100 g figures from the Ayam Brand Singapore site.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Ayam Pulled Chicken Buffalo or Spicy Korean Gochujang Sauce. Their ingredient panels are unchanged.

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

Pulled chicken
Shredded cooked chicken, here canned in a flavoured sauce. It is a ready-to-eat product, not raw chicken.
Rice bran oil
Oil pressed from rice bran, used in the cooked-chicken base in all panelled flavours.
Modified tapioca starch
A thickener made from tapioca starch, used to hold the sauce together. It is a starch, not a sugar.
Capsicum oleoresin
A concentrated extract of chilli peppers used for heat and colour.
INS 160C
Paprika oleoresin, a colouring made from paprika extract (listed in the gochujang flavour).
Flavour enhancer (yeast extract)
Yeast extract used to boost savoury flavour; Ayam Brand states no added MSG, and yeast extract is not MSG, though it contains naturally occurring glutamates.

What this page is not

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: Ayam Brand Singapore official site (ayambrand.com.sg) — pulled-chicken listing page (7 flavours) and product pages for Mayonnaise, Truffle Mayonnaise and Buffalo, each with a full ingredient section and per-100 g nutrition; Ayam Brand Malaysia official site (ayambrand.com.my) for the Gochujang flavour, flagged as a Malaysian list; FairPrice canned-meat category page (inventory — Ayam Pulled Chicken flavours listed, including Honey Mustard, Black Pepper and Truffle Mayonnaise); Shopee Singapore (inventory — Mayonnaise listing, partial list only, not panelled). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so its shelf could not be panelled from its site. Nutrition figures are standardised to per 100 g where the source gives per-100 figures; per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and are not 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.