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Canned corn and vegetables: what's actually in it?

This page covers canned sweetcorn (whole kernel and cream style), canned peas, canned mixed vegetables, canned carrots, canned mushrooms, canned bamboo shoots, canned water chestnuts, canned baby corn and canned beansprouts sold in Singapore. The useful distinctions on this shelf are usually: vegetables in water/brine with salt (and sometimes sugar, citric acid or calcium chloride as a firming agent) versus cream-style corn (which adds starch and sugar); and whole-kernel corn versus cream-style corn, which are different products even under the same brand. It does not cover canned beans/legumes (own page), canned tomatoes (own page), canned fruit, or frozen vegetables.

This page does not give a health score, a ranking, or a "best" pick, and it shows no prices.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Panelled with verbatim lists: 8 products — 6 with Singapore sale confirmed and 2 flagged reference panels whose Singapore sale was not verified. Only one panel (Ayam Brand cream-style corn) comes from a brand site; none comes from a Singapore retailer ingredient section, and no Singapore pack was transcribed in this pass.
• The Singapore Del Monte corn cans are Thai packs, not the US cans whose lists are quoted here. Cold Storage Singapore lists Del Monte Cream Style Corn 380g and Whole Kernel Corn 380g with country of origin Thailand, plus separate "Del Monte Thai" 420g/425g cans. The lists panelled for Del Monte are the US lists, flagged as such — the Thai-pack lists were not retrievable online and still need pack photos.
• The Del Monte mixed-vegetables mix itself is in dispute. A 2019 Singapore review of the FairPrice-sold can describes carrot, green peas and corn; the US list panelled here has seven vegetables (carrots, potatoes, peas, corn, green beans, celery, lima beans). The two do not match, so the US list is a reference only.
• Added sugar splits the shelf. Whole-kernel corn, mushrooms and baby corn lists have no sugar; cream-style corn and peas lists do (sugar in Ayam Brand cream-style corn, Del Monte cream-style corn, Del Monte sweet peas and Green Giant peas).
• Two Open Food Facts nutrition entries are internally inconsistent and are flagged, not silently used. The Yifon baby corn entry prints 4 kcal per 100g alongside 1.7g carbohydrate and 1.7g protein, which cannot both be right; and the Del Monte mixed-vegetables entries print near-zero salt for a product whose list includes sea salt. Neither figure is presented as settled.
• The Hosen and house-brand shelves are the biggest gap. Hosen is a Singapore canned-food brand sold at FairPrice, Sheng Siong, Cold Storage and Giant, but only one Hosen list (straw mushroom, from a Malaysian round-up) was retrievable; its bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, baby corn and beansprouts have no verbatim list at all. No FairPrice, Meadows, Giant or Sheng Siong house-brand canned vegetable produced a retrievable verbatim list in this pass.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 8 products — 6 with Singapore sale confirmed (Ayam Brand Sweet Corn Cream Style 425g; Del Monte Whole Kernel Corn; Del Monte Sweet Corn Cream Style; Del Monte Mixed Vegetables; Hosen Unpeel Whole Straw Mushroom 425g; Yifon Baby Corn (Cut) in Brine 230g) and 2 flagged reference panels whose Singapore sale was not verified in this pass (Del Monte Sweet Peas 425g, Green Giant Summer Sweet Peas 398mL). Only the Ayam Brand panel comes from a brand site; the Del Monte, Hosen and Green Giant lists are flagged overseas/secondary lists, and the Yifon list is from Open Food Facts (Singapore entry). Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below.

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

Cream-style sweetcorn

Whole-kernel sweetcorn

Mixed vegetables

Canned mushrooms

Baby corn

Peas — reference panels (Singapore sale not verified)

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Ayam Brand Whole Kernel Corn 425g — sold at Cold Storage Singapore and named on the Ayam Brand Singapore site; the Malaysian brand site lists it as a product variant, but its product page was not retrieved in this pass, so no verbatim list. Do not copy the cream-style list onto it (different product).
• Ayam Brand Processed Peas 230g and 425g — named on the Ayam Brand Singapore site as part of its canned-vegetable range; no verbatim list retrieved. Note the formulation changed: Ayam Brand removed artificial colourings E102 and E133 from its processed peas in 2020 (the peas are now naturally light brown), so any old list showing those colours is out of date and must not be used.
• Ayam Brand Mushrooms 420g — listed as a product variant on the Malaysian brand site; no verbatim list retrieved. Do not copy the Hosen mushroom list onto it.
• Ayam Brand Sweet Corn Cup 200g — listed as a product variant on the Malaysian brand site; no verbatim list retrieved.
• Del Monte Thai Whole Kernel Corn 420g and Del Monte Thai Cream Style Corn 425g — listed at Cold Storage Singapore as separate products from the 380g cans; no verbatim lists retrieved. Do not assume they match the 380g cans or the US lists.
• Del Monte Peas & Carrots — US list retrieved (Vegetables (Peas, Carrots), Water, Sugar, Sea Salt), but no Singapore sale confirmed in this pass, so not panelled as a Singapore product.
• Del Monte Sliced Carrots; Del Monte Green Beans (Blue Lake / French Style) — US range products; no Singapore sale confirmed and no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• S&W Premium Whole Kernel Corn; S&W Cream Style Corn — US lists retrieved (whole kernel: not retrieved in full; cream style, Open Food Facts: Corn, water, modified food starch, sugar, salt (for flavor)); no Singapore sale confirmed in this pass. A Malaysian round-up names S&W whole kernel corn, but that is not Singapore sale evidence.
• Green Giant Whole Kernel Sweet Corn; Green Giant Cream Style Sweet Corn — US lists retrieved (whole kernel: Corn, Water, Sea Salt; cream style, Open Food Facts: Water, whole kernel corn, sugar, corn starch, salt), but no Singapore sale confirmed in this pass, so not panelled as Singapore products.
• Heinz Sweetcorn 400g — an Open Food Facts entry for Bulgaria/Germany/Lithuania lists sweetcorn, water, sugar, salt; no Singapore sale confirmed in this pass.
• Hosen bamboo shoots; Hosen water chestnuts; Hosen baby corn; Hosen beansprouts — Hosen is a Singapore brand and these are its standard canned-vegetable lines, but no verbatim list was retrieved for any of them in this pass. Pack photos needed.
• Hosen button mushrooms (Choice Whole 425g, sliced, pieces & stems) — sale confirmed on Shopee Singapore, but no verbatim list retrieved for the button-mushroom cans; the panelled Hosen list is for the straw mushroom, and the two must not be merged.
• Aroy-D Thai Baby Corn — US import listing gives baby corn, water, salt, citric acid; no Singapore sale confirmed in this pass.
• Libby's Whole Kernel Sweet Corn — US brand site lists sweet corn, water and sea salt; no Singapore sale confirmed in this pass.
• FairPrice, Meadows, Giant and Sheng Siong house-brand canned corn and vegetables — no named house-brand canned vegetable with a retrievable verbatim list was found for any of these in this pass. A crowd-sourced FatSecret entry for FairPrice Mixed Vegetables gives per-100g figures (see nutrition notes) but no ingredient list, so it is not panelled.
• Don Don Donki / Meidi-Ya Japanese and Thai canned vegetables — no named canned-vegetable product with a retrievable verbatim list was found for either channel in this web pass. That is a gap in this page, not evidence that nothing is sold there: both sell Japanese/Thai shelf-stable vegetables that need an in-store shelf check and pack photos.
• Mustafa, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee Singapore canned-vegetable ranges — no named product with a retrievable verbatim list was found for any of these channels in this web pass, apart from the Hosen mushroom listing on Shopee Singapore noted above. In-store checks and pack photos still needed.
• Edgell Creamed Corn 420g (Australia) — specification retrieved (sweet corn 58%, water, thickener 1412, sugar, salt); no Singapore sale evidence, not panelled as a Singapore product.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100g, except the Del Monte Mixed Vegetables row, which is per serving (0.5 cup / 125g) as printed and is not converted. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these listings in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned. (Nutri-Grade is a drinks grading scheme and does not apply to canned vegetables in any case.)

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Where a source printed salt rather than sodium, sodium is derived as salt ÷ 2.5 and flagged as derived. Where a source printed sodium, salt is derived the same way and flagged.

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 Open Food Facts states an added-sugars figure separately, it is noted. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, glucose, dextrose) versus naturally occurring sugars.

Drained weight vs total contents: no nutrition panel retrieved in this pass stated whether its per-100g basis was total contents or drained weight, so no basis is claimed for any row. Canned corn and vegetables are usually eaten drained, but the panels are as sold; do not compare a drained-basis figure with an as-sold figure without checking the basis.

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.

Observed numbers, no verdict: Ayam Brand cream-style corn lists 6.8g sugars per 100g, the highest per-100g sugars figure tabled here, against 5.6g for Del Monte whole-kernel corn and 4.8g for Del Monte cream-style corn. Del Monte cream-style corn lists 272mg sodium per 100g; the peas rows list 216–223mg sodium per 100g (derived from printed salt). Del Monte sweet peas list 2.68g protein per 100g, against 0.8g for both Del Monte corn rows. No per-100g nutrition figure was verified in this pass for Hosen straw mushroom, so its row is absent rather than estimated.

Conflicts and data-quality flags in the table:

• Del Monte Whole Kernel Corn sodium: Open Food Facts prints salt 0.512g per 100g (sodium 205mg derived), but EWG/LabelINSIGHT prints 320mg sodium per 125g serving, i.e. 256mg per 100g (salt 0.64g). The two disagree by about 25%; the table uses the Open Food Facts figure and the pack photo is needed to settle it.
• Del Monte Cream Style Corn energy: Open Food Facts prints 48 kcal per 100g, but US retailer listings print 60–70 kcal per 125g serving, i.e. 48–56 kcal per 100g — the top of that range (70 kcal per serving, Giant Food Stores) implies 56 kcal per 100g. Sodium agrees across sources (340mg per 125g serving = 272mg per 100g).
• Yifon Baby Corn energy: Open Food Facts prints 4 kcal (15 kJ) per 100g, but the same entry prints 1.7g carbohydrate and 1.7g protein per 100g, which alone account for roughly 14 kcal. The energy figure cannot be right as printed; it is tabled with this flag rather than corrected or dropped, and the pack panel is needed.
• Yifon Baby Corn salt: Open Food Facts prints salt 0.001g per 100g for a product packed in brine whose list includes salt. That figure is implausible and is not used; sodium is recorded as not stated.
• Del Monte Mixed Vegetables salt: the two Open Food Facts entries for this product print salt 0g and 0.001g per 100g, both implausible for a product whose list includes sea salt, so neither is used. The tabled row is the USDA per-serving panel instead (sodium 310mg per 125g serving); an Instacart listing prints 330mg sodium per serving for the same product, a smaller disagreement, noted here.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Hosen Unpeel Whole Straw Mushroom 425g, Ayam Brand Whole Kernel Corn 425g, Ayam Brand Processed Peas 230g/425g, Ayam Brand Mushrooms 420g, Del Monte Thai Whole Kernel Corn 420g, Del Monte Thai Cream Style Corn 425g, Del Monte Peas & Carrots, Del Monte Sliced Carrots, Del Monte Green Beans, S&W whole-kernel and cream-style corn, Green Giant whole-kernel and cream-style corn, Heinz Sweetcorn 400g, any Hosen bamboo shoots / water chestnuts / baby corn / beansprouts, Aroy-D Thai Baby Corn, Libby's Whole Kernel Sweet Corn, or any house-brand canned vegetable. A crowd-sourced FatSecret entry for FairPrice Mixed Vegetables prints 72 kcal, 0.5g fat, 9.1g carbohydrate, 3.6g protein and 15mg sodium per 100g, but its sodium figure is implausible for a canned vegetable in brine and the source is user-submitted with no ingredient list, so it is not tabled. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here.

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

Brine / packing water

Most canned vegetables are packed in water with salt. The ingredient list usually starts with the vegetable, then water, then salt — check the order, because it differs by product and by market.

Calcium chloride

A firming agent, sometimes listed in canned vegetables (it is in the US Del Monte mixed-vegetables list) to keep them firm. Its presence or absence is a real difference between brands, not a detail to assume.

Citric acid (E330 / INS 330)

An acidity regulator, also used to keep colour. It is not a sweetener. It appears in the Hosen mushroom and Yifon baby corn lists.

Cream style (corn)

Corn in a creamy sauce, usually with added starch and sugar. It is a different product from whole-kernel corn in brine — the two must not share a row, and a whole-kernel list must never be copied onto a cream-style can.

Drained weight vs total contents

A can's total weight includes the packing water; the drained weight is the vegetables alone. A nutrition panel may be per 100g of total contents or per 100g drained — the basis matters, and must be stated where the pack states it. No panel retrieved in this pass stated its basis.

"No added sugar" vs "no sugar"

Sweetcorn naturally contains sugars. "No added sugar" means none was added during manufacture; it does not mean the product is sugar-free. The ingredient list is the evidence for added sugar.

Processed peas

Ayam Brand's "Processed Peas" are canned peas sold under that name; "processed" here is the product name, not a judgement. Their colouring changed in 2020 (E102/E133 removed), so old lists showing those colours are out of date.

Thai pack vs US pack

The same brand and product name can be a different formulation in different markets. Singapore Del Monte corn cans are Thai packs (380g/420g/425g); the US cans are 418g/432g. A US list is not the Singapore pack list.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Cream-style corn, whole-kernel corn, peas, mushrooms and baby corn 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 product is panelled from a Singapore retailer ingredient section and no Singapore pack was transcribed in this pass; the Del Monte lists are flagged US lists for Thai packs sold in Singapore, the Hosen list is a flagged round-up list, and the FairPrice/Meadows/Giant/Sheng Siong house-brand, Don Don Donki, Meidi-Ya, Mustafa, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart and Lazada shelves were not inventoried with verified lists in this pass. The gaps are listed above, not hidden.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: Ayam Brand Malaysia brand site (Sweet Corn Cream Style 425g ingredients and per-100g nutrition; product-variant listing naming Whole Kernel Corn 425g, Processed Peas 230g/425g, Mushrooms 420g, Sweet Corn Cup 200g); Ayam Brand Singapore site (blog naming Whole Kernel Corn and Processed Peas as its canned-vegetable range, sold at all leading supermarkets); Cold Storage Singapore listings via its online storefront (Del Monte Cream Style Corn 380g Thailand, Del Monte Whole Kernel Corn 380g, Del Monte Thai Cream Style Corn 425g, Del Monte Thai Whole Kernel Corn 420g, Ayam Brand Whole Kernel Corn 425g); a 2019 Singapore review of Del Monte Mixed Vegetables, Whole Kernel Corn and Sweet Corn Cream Style sold at FairPrice (gilmangirl.livejournal.com); Open Food Facts (Del Monte Whole Kernel Corn 0024000163022, Sweet Corn Cream Style 0024000163015, Sweet Peas 0024000163084, Mixed Vegetables 0024000163190 and 0024000014584, Peas & Carrots 0024000163114; Green Giant Summer Sweet Peas 0190569014607 and Cream Style Corn 0190569102601; S&W Cream Style Corn 0011194296452; Yifon Baby Corn 8888230030828 with Stores: NTUC Fairprice, Countries: Singapore); US retailer listings corroborating the Del Monte US lists (Giant Food Stores, Food4Less, Publix, Kroger, Hy-Vee, EWG/LabelINSIGHT); a Malaysian canned-mushroom round-up for the Hosen straw-mushroom list (myweekendplan.asia); FoodNavigator-Asia for the 2020 Ayam Brand processed-peas colouring change; Shopee Singapore (Hosen Mushroom Choice Whole 425g) and Singapore import records for Hosen mushroom sale; USDA-based Prospre listing for Del Monte Mixed Vegetables per-serving nutrition. Web search only — no in-store shelf check and no pack photos in this pass. Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so its shelf is inventoried from listings only. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: figures are standardised to per 100g 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, with derived figures flagged; implausible secondary-source salt/energy figures are flagged and not used (see conflicts list). Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.