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Canned fruit: what's actually in it?

Canned fruit is fruit, water and sugar — and the order of those three, plus whether citric acid or a glucose syrup appears, is the whole story. The Singapore shelf is dominated by Hosen (lychee, longan, rambutan, pineapple, peach, fruit cocktail) with Del Monte, S&W, FairPrice house brand, Mili and Yifon alongside. Most cans are fruit in syrup, not in juice: sugar is the second or third ingredient in nearly every panelled product here.

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

• Hosen's syrup cans are three ingredients. Lychee, longan and rambutan with pineapple are all fruit, water, sugar — nothing else on the list.
• Peach cans differ by market. The Del Monte peach halves sold in Singapore come in syrup (peach, water, sugar, citric acid, calcium chloride) and in light syrup (peaches, water, glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, citric acid) — two different lists for what looks like the same can, so check the exact variant.
• Aroy-D is the citric-acid exception. Its longan, mango and rambutan cans add citric acid (E330) as an acidity regulator, where Hosen's equivalent cans do not list one.
• Country of manufacture varies by fruit, not by brand. Hosen lychee is packed in China; Hosen longan and rambutan with pineapple are packed in Thailand; Hosen pineapple tidbits are a product of the Philippines.
• Drained weight matters. A 565g can of Hosen lychee drains to 230g — more than half the can is syrup, and the per-serving nutrition below is for the fruit plus syrup as served, not drained fruit alone.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 9 products. Seen but not verified: 13 products. Checked 12 November 2026. No prices are shown here: they change weekly and would go stale.

Panelled products

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Hosen Peach Slices, 825g and Peach Halves, 420g — listed at FairPrice; ingredient list not retrieved (a per-serving nutrition figure exists on Fitia SG but no verbatim list was found).
• Hosen Pineapple Slices in Syrup, 565g and Pineapple Cubes, 565g — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient list retrieved.
• Hosen Fiesta Fruit Cocktail, Signature Fruit Cocktail and Premium Fruit Cocktail — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient lists retrieved.
• Hosen Mandarin Oranges in Syrup, Honey Sea Coconut, Nata De Coco Original — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient lists retrieved.
• Hosen Rambutan (plain, 565g) and Rambutan Stuffed with Pineapple — listed at FairPrice/Shopee SG; no ingredient list retrieved for either.
• Del Monte Fresh Cut Fruit Cocktail, 825g and Fiesta Mix Tropical Fruit, 850g — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient lists retrieved.
• S&W Premium Pineapples — Slices and Chunks — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient lists retrieved.
• FairPrice Can Fruit in Syrup — Peach Halves, Peach Slices, Cocktail, Longan; FairPrice Fruit in Syrup — Tropical; FairPrice Pineapple Cubes/Slices in Syrup — house brand, listed at FairPrice; no ingredient lists retrieved.
• Mili Fruits in Heavy Syrup — Pineapple Slices, Lychee, Longan — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient lists retrieved.
• Yifon Can Fruit — Longans in Syrup, Rambutan Stuffed with Pineapple, Half Peaches in Syrup — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient lists retrieved.
• Aroy-D Rambutan in Syrup, Toddy Palm's Seed Slices in Syrup — UK retailer lists exist but SG availability/pack not verified; not panelled.
• Dole canned fruit (peach, pineapple, mandarin, fruit cocktail) — sold in Singapore; no SG ingredient lists retrieved in this pass.
• Golden Circle / SPC canned fruit — sold in Singapore via import channels; no SG ingredient 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.

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)

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

Conflicts flagged, not silently resolved: Hosen Lychee — the Shopee SG listing gives the list as 'Lychee, Water, Sugar' with no acidity regulator, while a Facebook pack photo of the same can shows 'Water, Lychee, Sugar, Acidity Regulator' (different order, extra item). The SG pack must settle this. Del Monte peach halves — the in-syrup and light-syrup lists differ (glucose-fructose syrup and no calcium chloride in light syrup); they are panelled as separate variants, not merged.

Seen but not verified (nutrition):

• Hosen Peach Slices, Pineapple Slices/Cubes, Fiesta/Signature/Premium Fruit Cocktail, Mandarin Oranges — no nutrition panel verified.
• Aroy-D Longan, Mango, Rambutan with Pineapple — no nutrition panel verified.
• FairPrice house-brand canned fruit, Mili, Yifon, S&W, Dole — no nutrition panels verified.
• Hosen Peach Slices per-serving energy (95 kcal per 140 g, Fitia SG) is quoted in the per-serving table; the rest of its panel was not retrieved, so it is not in the per-100g table.

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

In syrup / in heavy syrup / in light syrup

The packing liquid. 'In syrup' is fruit in a sugar-water syrup; 'heavy syrup' has more sugar than 'light syrup'; 'in juice' means packed in fruit juice instead of syrup, usually with less added sugar. The syrup is part of the product as sold — draining it changes the sugars you actually eat, but the panel is for the can as sold.

Drained weight

The weight of the fruit after the syrup is drained off. A 565g can of Hosen lychee drains to 230g — the rest is syrup.

Citric acid (E330)

An acidity regulator that keeps the fruit's colour and tartness. It is not a preservative in the usual sense and adds no sugar.

Calcium chloride (firming agent)

Keeps canned fruit firm instead of soft. Listed on the Del Monte in-syrup peach halves.

Glucose-fructose syrup

A liquid sweetener made from starch. It is an added sugar, like sugar itself — a 'light syrup' can still contain it.

Nata de coco

Coconut gel cubes, often mixed into fruit cocktails. It is a separate ingredient, not a fruit.

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 canned fruits and desserts category listing (inventory: Hosen, Del Monte, S&W, FairPrice house brand, Mili, Yifon); Shopee SG retailer listings for Hosen Lychee, Longan and Rambutan with Pineapple (ingredients, origin, per-serving nutrition) and Hosen Pineapple Tidbits 3kg; Open Food Facts US listing for Del Monte Yellow Cling Peach Halves 825g (ingredients and per-100g nutrition); McGrocer UK listing for Del Monte Peach Halves in Light Syrup (ingredients and per-100g nutrition); Wai Yee Hong UK listings for Aroy-D Longan, Mango and Rambutan with Pineapple (ingredients); Fitia SG for Hosen Peach Slices per-serving energy. Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so its canned-fruit range could not be verified from its site. No pack photos were available for this pass; SG pack checks remain open for every panelled product whose source is not a Singapore pack or SG retailer ingredient section.