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Cheese crackers: what's actually in them?

A cheese cracker is a baked wheat cracker flavoured with cheese — either cheese baked into the cracker itself, or a cheese-cream filling sandwiched between two crackers. On the Singapore shelf the category is small: Ritz cheese crackers and cheese-cream sandwich biscuits, Cheezels cheese rings, and imported Combos and Chicken in a Biskit. This page covers cheese-flavoured crackers and cheese sandwich biscuits only. Plain crackers (see the cream-crackers page), cheese-flavoured corn snacks such as Twisties Cheeky Cheddar, and tortilla chips such as Doritos Nacho Cheese are adjacent products, not cheese crackers, and are noted as out of scope rather than panelled.

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

The headline, in 30 seconds

"Cheese cracker" can mean two different products. Ritz Cheese Crackers bake cheese powder into the cracker (7.6% cheese in one SG-region listing); Ritz Sandwich Biscuits put cheese cream between two plain crackers. They are separate rows here.
The cheese share is small. The panelled cheese crackers list cheese at 5–8% — wheat flour and vegetable oil come first, cheese comes well down the list.
Ritz has several different cheese-cracker recipes by market. The SG-region, Australian and UK listings panelled here differ in oil (palm vs unspecified vegetable oil), cheese share and salt — so a UK or Australian list must never be presented as the Singapore pack list.
Cheezels and the Ritz cheese-cream sandwich are the FairPrice shelf leaders, and neither has a verified list yet. Both are listed for sale at FairPrice, but no FairPrice ingredient section or pack transcription was retrieved for either in this pass — they sit in seen-but-not-verified, not in the panelled table.

At a glance

Product	Form	First ingredient	Cheese share	Added sugar?	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Ritz Crackers — Cheese (SG-region listing)	Baked cracker	Wheat flour	Cheese powder, share not stated in this listing	Yes — sugar, high fructose syrup	118 g	not stated
Ritz Crackers — Cheese, 91 g	Baked cracker	Wheat flour	Cheese 7.6%	Yes — sugar, fructose syrup	91 g	not stated
Ritz Cheese Crackers — imported (AU listing)	Baked cracker	Wheat flour	Cheese seasoning 4%, cheese powder 0.1%	Yes — glucose syrup	not stated	not stated
Ritz Crackers — Original, cheese-flavoured (UK listing)	Baked cracker	Wheat flour	Cheese powder 5.3%	Yes — glucose-fructose syrup, sugar	not stated	not stated

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.

Ritz cheese crackers — baked, cheese in the cracker

Ritz Crackers — Cheese (SG-region listing, 118 g)

Pack size: 118 g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts): WHEAT FLOUR, NON HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (PALM OIL), CHEESE POWDER (CONTAINS COLOR SUNSET YELLOW FCF & CURCUMIN), WHEY POWDER (MILK), SUGAR, HIGH FRUCTOSE SYRUP, RAISING AGENTS (AMMONIUM BICARBONATE (INS503(ii)), SODIUM BICARBONATE (INS500(ii))), SALT, EMULSIFIER (SOY LECITHIN (INS322)), STABILIZER (CALCIUM PHOSPHATE (INS341(i))), FLOUR TREATMENT AGENTS/ENZYMES (AMYLASE (INS1100), PROTEASE (INS1101)). ADDITIVES ARE SOURCED FROM PLANT AND SYNTHETIC ORIGINS. Allergen information: CONTAINS MILK, WHEAT, SOY.

Flag: Open Food Facts secondary entry (barcode 4893049120008, a 489-prefix barcode used in the Hong Kong/Singapore region); the SG pack still needs a photo to confirm this is the FairPrice-sold recipe. Palm oil is named as the vegetable oil here, unlike the unspecified vegetable oil in the 91 g entry below. Allergens: milk, wheat, soy Added sugar: sugar, high fructose syrup Origin: not stated

Ritz Crackers — Cheese, 91 g

Pack size: 91 g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts): Wheat flour, Vegetable oil (contains antioxidants tocopherol and ascorbyl palmitate), Sugar, Cheese (7.6%) (contains natural coloring beta-carotene (vegetable) CI No. 75130), Fructose syrup, Whey powder, Leavening agents (ammonium & sodium bicarbonate), Salt, Emulsifier (soy lecithin), Stabilizer monocalcium phosphate, Corn starch, Synthetic flavoring.

Cheese at 7.6% is the highest cheese share panelled on this page, and it is coloured with beta-carotene rather than sunset yellow. The oil is not named beyond "vegetable oil" in this entry, which conflicts with the palm-oil naming in the SG-region entry above — the two entries may describe different market recipes, so they are kept as separate rows. Allergens: wheat, milk (whey), soy Added sugar: sugar, fructose syrup Origin: not stated

Ritz Cheese Crackers — imported (Australian listing)

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

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, AU entry): Wheat flour, Vegetable oil (contains antioxidant (330)), Glucose syrup, Malt extract (from barley), Cheese seasoning (4%) (contains milk solids, maltodextrin (from corn and potato), flavours, salt, flavour enhancers (621, 627, 631), vegetable oil, cheese powder (0.1%), anti-caking agent (551), food acids (330, sulphites), enzyme. Allergen statement: contains wheat, milk, barley and sulphites. May contain traces of egg, soy and nuts.

Flag: Australian listing, transcribed with OCR errors in the source ("contains please s antioxidant", "sal" for salt); the SG pack still needs a photo. Note the construction: a 4% cheese seasoning that itself contains only 0.1% cheese powder — most of the "cheese" flavour here comes from seasoning and flavour enhancers, not cheese. Allergens: wheat, milk, barley, sulphites Added sugar: glucose syrup Origin: not stated

Ritz Crackers — Original, cheese-flavoured (UK listing)

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

Ingredients (UK foodservice specification): WHEAT flour, Sunflower oil, CHEESE powder 5.3%, Glucose-fructose syrup, Salt, Raising agents (ammonium carbonates, potassium carbonates), Sugar, Yeast powder, Acidity regulators (lactic acid, calcium lactate), Flavouring (contains MILK), Black pepper.

Flag: UK listing — the UK "Original" Ritz is a cheese-flavoured cracker, unlike the plain Ritz Original sold in Singapore, so this row must not be read as the SG Ritz Original. Sunflower oil replaces palm oil here, and black pepper appears at the end of the list. Allergens: wheat, milk Added sugar: glucose-fructose syrup, sugar Origin: not stated

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Ritz Sandwich Biscuits Multipack — Cheese Cream (FairPrice, 243 g) — listed for sale at FairPrice; no FairPrice ingredient section or pack transcription retrieved. The cheese-cream sandwich is a different construction from the baked cheese crackers panelled above and needs its own list.
Cheezels Cheese Rings Snack — Original (Multipack, FairPrice, 8 x 13 g) — listed for sale at FairPrice; no ingredient list retrieved in this pass. Cheezels Cheezy Cheese (single-serve) also seen on SG shelves; same gap.
Combos — Cheddar Cheese (and other flavours) — seen on SG supermarket shelves (photographed in a July 2026 aisle post); no SG verbatim list retrieved.
Chicken in a Biskit — Original — reported back on SG shelves at FairPrice Jurong Point and Boon Lay (September 2026); no SG verbatim list retrieved.
Jacob's Cheese Crackers / Jacob's Cheeselets, Hup Seng Cheese Crackers — cheese cracker lines in the SG cracker aisle; no verbatim list retrieved.
Ritz Toasted Chips — Sour Cream & Onion, Ritz Crackers Box — Original (SG) — listed at FairPrice; the SG Original is a plain cracker (out of this page's cheese scope) and the Toasted Chips are a different format; neither list was retrieved.
Twisties Corn Snack — Cheeky Cheddar Cheese, Doritos Tortilla Chips — Nacho Cheese — cheese-flavoured, but a corn snack and a tortilla chip respectively, not crackers; out of scope, noted so they are not mistaken for missing rows.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g. Sugars here are total sugars as printed. 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.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Where the source printed salt only, sodium is derived as salt ÷ 2.5 and marked as derived.

Total vs added sugars: Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as "added sugar". The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, fructose syrup, glucose syrup) versus naturally occurring sugars (lactose in whey powder).

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. Click a column header to sort the table; "not stated" always sorts last.

Product	Basis	Energy ↕	Protein ↕	Total fat ↕	Saturated fat ↕	Carbohydrate ↕	Sugars ↕	Sodium (salt equiv.) ↕
Ritz Crackers — Cheese (SG-region listing)	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts)	507 kcal	6.9 g	28.3 g	14.6 g	56.3 g	15.3 g	470 mg (salt 1.18 g, derived)
Ritz Crackers — Cheese, 91 g	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts)	519 kcal	7.4 g	29.6 g	9.3 g	59.3 g	14.8 g	520 mg (salt 1.3 g, derived)
Ritz Cheese Crackers — imported (AU listing)	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts)	502 kcal	7.6 g	24 g	10.8 g	62.8 g	6 g	864 mg (salt 2.16 g, derived)
Ritz Crackers — Original, cheese-flavoured (UK listing)	Per 100 g, as sold (UK specification)	507 kcal	9.7 g	25 g	4.7 g	60 g	4.2 g	520 mg (salt 1.3 g, derived)

Per-serving figures (quoted exactly as printed, not converted): Ritz Crackers — Cheese, 91 g — per serving of 27 g: energy 140 kcal, fat 8 g, saturated fat 2.5 g, carbohydrate 16 g, sugars 4 g, protein 2 g, salt 0.35 g (Open Food Facts). Per-serving rows are kept separate from the per-100 g table above and are never sorted against it.

Observed numbers, no verdict: the four panelled cheese crackers list 502–519 kcal per 100 g. Sugars vary widely — 15.3 g and 14.8 g per 100 g for the two cheese-baked Ritz entries, against 6 g (AU import) and 4.2 g (UK Original) — and salt runs from 1.18 g to 2.16 g per 100 g, the AU import listing the highest. These are different market recipes, not the same product measured four times, so the spread is a market difference, not a measurement dispute.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Ritz Sandwich Biscuits — Cheese Cream, Cheezels Original, Combos Cheddar Cheese, Chicken in a Biskit, or any Jacob's cheese cracker. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here.

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

Cheese powder vs cheese seasoning: Cheese powder is dried cheese. Cheese seasoning is a blend — milk solids, maltodextrin, flavours, flavour enhancers and a little cheese powder — so a "cheese seasoning 4%" line is mostly not cheese.
Flavour enhancers (621, 627, 631): Monosodium glutamate (621) and related enhancers (627, 631) that boost savoury flavour. Their presence marks a seasoning-led recipe rather than a cheese-led one.
Sunset yellow FCF / curcumin / beta-carotene: Yellow/orange colourings that make the cracker look cheesy. Beta-carotene and curcumin are natural colours; sunset yellow FCF is a synthetic colour.
Sandwich biscuit vs baked cheese cracker: A sandwich biscuit has a cream filling between two crackers; a baked cheese cracker has the cheese flavour baked into the cracker itself. The ingredient list tells them apart immediately — a filling lists cream, sugar and oil first.
Non-hydrogenated vegetable oil (palm oil): The oil is named in brackets when the maker declares it. "Vegetable oil" without a name can be any oil; palm oil named in brackets is the same oil, declared.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Baked cheese crackers and cheese-cream sandwich biscuits 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. The two FairPrice shelf leaders (Ritz Cheese Cream sandwich, Cheezels) are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden — this page is thin and says so.

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: FairPrice Singapore snacks and confectionery category page (first page — Cheezels Original multipack, Ritz Sandwich Biscuits Cheese Cream multipack, Twisties Cheeky Cheddar listed); Open Food Facts (Ritz Cheese SG-region, 91 g, AU import entries); UK foodservice specification (Ritz Original cheese-flavoured). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so its shelf could not be panelled from its site. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. 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.