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Chilli sauce: what's actually in it?

One shelf, many different products. A sweet chilli sauce is mostly sugar and water with some chilli — sugar is usually the first ingredient. A sriracha is a smooth, garlicky chilli sauce with chilli first and no added water (in the Huy Fong style) or water first (in several Asian brands). A sambal is a chunkier chilli paste, often with shrimp paste (belacan), onion and oil. A chilli garlic sauce is exactly what it says: chilli and garlic, usually with sugar, salt and vinegar. Gochujang is a fermented Korean chilli paste built on rice and fermented soybeans — a paste, not a pouring sauce — and a Tabasco-style hot sauce is little more than peppers, vinegar and salt. The front of the bottle rarely makes the distinction clear; the ingredient list does.

This page covers chilli sauce sold in Singapore: sweet chilli sauce, hot chilli sauce, sriracha, sambal (sambal oelek, sambal belacan, sambal chilli), chilli padi sauce, gochujang (included as a chilli paste, and labelled as such), chilli garlic sauce, Tabasco-style hot sauce and peri peri sauce. Meal-kit sauces (for example chilli crab kits) and cooking pastes sold as curry or laksa paste are not in scope here, even when they appear in the same FairPrice category listing. This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Only one product panelled here has a FairPrice Singapore ingredient section: Heinz Chilli Sauce — "Sugar, Water, Red Chilli, Tomato Paste, Modifed Starch, Salt, Onion Powder, Xanthan Gum". Every other panelled list comes from a non-SG retailer, a distributor, Open Food Facts or a brand site, and is flagged as such. No SG pack was transcribed in this pass.
• Lingham's Original is the shortest list on the page: four ingredients. Sugar, red chillies (33%), vinegar, salt — no preservatives, no colouring, no tomato paste. Its garlic, ginger and extra-hot siblings add exactly one or two ingredients to that base.
• Sweet chilli sauces are sugar first. Mae Ploy Sweet Chilli Sauce is 46% sugar, and Woh Hup Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce starts with water, then sugar, with chilli only 10%. If sugar is first, it is a sweet sauce that happens to contain chilli, not a chilli sauce that happens to be sweet.
• Sriracha is not one recipe. Huy Fong's list starts with chilli and contains no added water; Woh Hup's sriracha starts with water and chilli is 29%; Lingham's sriracha starts with water and chilli is 31%, plus soybean oil. Same word on the label, three different builds.
• Sambal belacan means shrimp paste — and an allergen. Singlong's sambal range is made in Singapore and sold at FairPrice, but no full verbatim list was retrievable for any Singlong sambal in this pass, so all of them stay seen-but-not-verified. Do not assume a sambal is vegetarian: belacan is fermented shrimp paste, and dried prawn/shrimp appears in several sambals.
• Gochujang, Tabasco, Frank's RedHot, Nando's peri peri, Knife, Yeo's and Oh were not panelled. They were inventoried as in-scope or named in the brief, but no verbatim list was retrieved for any of them in this pass — in part because the search service rate-limited (429) part-way through this pass, so those brands were not fully researched. They are listed in seen-but-not-verified with the reason, not hidden and not guessed.
• Two Lingham's sriracha transcriptions conflict. A 308g listing gives water, chilli (31%), garlic, sugar, salt, vinegar, soybean oil and xanthan gum; a 285g listing gives chillies (10%), garlic (14%), cane sugar, salt, vinegar and xanthan gum, with no water or oil. Only the 308g list is panelled, flagged as non-SG; the 285g list is recorded in the research notes and needs an SG pack check. Do not merge the two.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 17 products. Only 1 of the 17 (Heinz) is panelled from a Singapore retailer ingredient section; 1 (Woh Hup Thai Sweet Chilli) is panelled from Open Food Facts with countries-sold Singapore, corroborated by the brand's own site; the other 15 are panelled from non-SG retailer/distributor/brand listings and are flagged as such in each card — none of them is presented as a transcribed SG pack. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below — it is long, because the SG shelf is wide and FairPrice/Cold Storage publish ingredient sections only sometimes (Cold Storage publishes none).

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

Sweet & spicy chilli sauce — Lingham's and Heinz

Maggi chilli sauce

Sriracha

Sambal

Sweet chilli sauce and chilli garlic sauce — Woh Hup and Mae Ploy

FairPrice — the chilli-paste & sambal shelf (inventory, 5–6 Nov 2026)

FairPrice's "chili paste — sambal" category listing was inventoried in this pass. It is a wide shelf, and most of it is not panelled, for the reasons in seen-but-not-verified. The inventoried names below are FairPrice listing names as retrieved; nothing below is panelled from FairPrice's site except Heinz (above), because FairPrice published an ingredient section for Heinz and not, in this pass, for the others.

• Sriracha on the FairPrice shelf: AAA Sriracha Chilli Sauce (793g), Sabzu Sriracha Chilli Sauce, Sriraja Panich Sriracha Chili Sauce Medium Hot.
• Sweet chilli on the FairPrice shelf: Maepranom Sweet Chilli Sauce (two sizes, including 980g), Mae Ploy Sweet Chilli Sauce (panelled above from non-SG sources).
• Local sambal / chilli paste: Singlong Sambal – Belacan Chili, Singlong Sambal – Nasi Lemak Chili, Singlong Chilli Paste, Toh's Daily Chili Garlic – Original and Extra Spicy, Taho Lemon Chili Sauce – Extra Hot, Taho Blachan Chili with Shrimp Paste, Tungsan Nasi Lemak Chilli Paste, Tungsan Straits Story Premium Chilli / Chicken Rice Chilli Sauce / Kangkong Chilli Paste / White Devil's Chilli Sauce, OS Chilli Paste 500g, Malabar Chilli Paste Lada Kisar, Chung Hwa Chicken Rice Chilli Sauce, Heng Yoon Chili Sauce – Hot La La Garlic.
• Other chilli sauces in the same FairPrice listings: CJ Haechandle Gochujang Red Pepper Paste, Laoganma Spicy Chili Crisp, Laoganma Chili with Peanut, Laoganma Chilli with Peanut & Beancurd Kohlrabi, Laoganma Chili with Fermented Soybean, Lee Kum Kee Chili Bean Sauce, Lee Kum Kee Mala Red Oil Chilli Sauce, Prima Taste Sambal Chili (Asian Chill), Tiger Brand Chili Sauce – Garlic & Ginger, Chuanwazi Green And Red Chili Sauce, Food People Garlic Chilli Sauce, Blue Elephant Hot Red Chilli Sauce, AAA Thai Seafood Chilli Sauce, AAA Singapore Chilli Crab Sauce and AAA Crispy Prawn Chilli (meal sauces, out of this page's scope — listed here only so they are not mistaken for missing chilli-sauce rows).
• Woh Hup on the FairPrice shelf: Woh Hup Chilli Sauce – Garlic 460g and Woh Hup Chilli Sauce – Thai Sweet (panelled above from non-SG sources; no FairPrice ingredient section retrieved for either).

Cold Storage — the chilli shelf (inventory, 5–6 Nov 2026)

Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page — only size, country and storage — so this section is an inventory, not panels. Nothing below is panelled from Cold Storage's site; the items that could be panelled from other sources are panelled above, and the rest stay seen-but-not-verified until pack photos close them.

• Lingham's: Original Chilli Sauce 280ml (Malaysia, ambient), Extra Hot Chilli Sauce 280ml, Sriracha Chilli Sauce 280ml, Chilli Sauce Squeezy Bottle 280ml. The panelled Lingham's lists above are for 340g/358g bottles from non-SG sources — the SG 280ml bottles need separate pack checks, and must not be assumed to share those lists.
• Others: Laoganma Chilli In Oil 210g (China), Crying Thaiger Sriracha Hot Chilli 440ml, Crying Thaiger Sriracha Mayo 440ml, Crying Thaiger Sriracha Sweet Chilli 440ml, Maggi Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce 350g, McCormick Sichuan Mala Sauce 500g, McCormick Spicy Korean Sauce 500g, Dancing Chef Suki Sauce 230g (a suki dipping sauce, not a chilli sauce — noted only because it appears in the same "you may also like" listings).
• Huy Fong sriracha at Cold Storage: no current Cold Storage listing was retrieved in this pass; a Singapore food blog (2013, updated 2018) reports the large bottle at Cold Storage Plaza Singapura and the smaller bottle at Century Square. That is old evidence of SG sale, not a current listing — it is recorded here, not treated as a current shelf claim.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Singlong Sambal – Belacan Chili, Sambal – Nasi Lemak Chili, Chilli Paste, Sambal Chilli Prawn (all 230g, made in Singapore): listed at FairPrice; retailer descriptions give only the start of the lists ("Chilli, Cooking Oil, Onion, Garlic…" for Belacan and Nasi Lemak; "Prawn, Chilli, Cookin…" for Chilli Prawn) and a reseller description lists "prawn, chilli, cooking oil, onion, sugar, salt, spices, belacan, and permitted preservative" without order or completeness. Truncated/partial lists are not verbatim lists — all four stay seen-but-not-verified until an SG pack is transcribed.
• Gochujang (CJ Haechandle Gochujang Red Pepper Paste, Sempio and other Korean chilli pastes): CJ Haechandle is listed at FairPrice; no verbatim ingredient list was retrieved in this pass. Gochujang is a paste, not a pouring sauce — when it is panelled, it must be labelled as a paste. Sempio gochujang: no SG listing with a list was retrieved.
• Tabasco Sauce – Pepper, Frank's RedHot, Nando's Peri Peri sauce: Tabasco is listed at FairPrice ("Tabasco Sauce – Pepper"); no verbatim list was retrieved for any of the three in this pass. Do not use the well-known Tabasco list ("distilled vinegar, red pepper, salt") from memory — it needs a retrieved source tied to the SG bottle.
• Lee Kum Kee Chilli Bean Sauce and Mala Red Oil Chilli Sauce: listed at FairPrice; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• Laoganma range (Spicy Chili Crisp, Chili with Peanut, Chilli with Peanut & Beancurd Kohlrabi, Chili with Fermented Soybean, Chilli in Oil 210g): listed at FairPrice and Cold Storage; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• Knife, Yeo's and Oh chilli sauces: named in the brief as likely SG brands; no SG listing with a verbatim list was retrieved in this pass.
• AAA Sriracha Chilli Sauce, Sabzu Sriracha Chilli Sauce, Sriraja Panich Sriracha Chili Sauce Medium Hot, Maepranom Sweet Chilli Sauce, Blue Elephant Hot Red Chilli Sauce, Food People Garlic Chilli Sauce, Chuanwazi Green And Red Chili Sauce, Tiger Brand Chili Sauce – Garlic & Ginger, Prima Taste Sambal Chili: all listed at FairPrice; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• Toh's Daily Chili Garlic – Original and Extra Spicy, Taho Lemon Chili Sauce – Extra Hot, Taho Blachan Chili with Shrimp Paste, Tungsan range, OS Chilli Paste, Malabar Chilli Paste Lada Kisar, Chung Hwa Chicken Rice Chilli Sauce, Heng Yoon Chili Sauce – Hot La La Garlic: all listed at FairPrice; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• Crying Thaiger Sriracha Hot Chilli / Sriracha Mayo / Sriracha Sweet Chilli (440ml), Maggi Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce 350g, McCormick Sichuan Mala Sauce and Spicy Korean Sauce: listed at Cold Storage; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass. (Sriracha Mayo is a mayonnaise-based sauce, not a chilli sauce — it would need its own note if panelled.)
• Flying Goose regular Sriracha (not Ghost Chilli): the Ghost Chilli variant is panelled above; no verbatim list was retrieved for the regular Flying Goose sriracha in this pass — do not copy the Ghost Chilli list onto it.
• Lingham's SG 280ml bottles (Original, Extra Hot, Sriracha, Squeezy Bottle) and Lingham's Sriracha 285g: the panelled Lingham's lists are for 340g/358g/308g bottles from non-SG sources. The SG 280ml bottles and the 285g sriracha (whose transcription conflicts with the panelled 308g list — chillies 10%, garlic 14%, no water, no soybean oil) need SG pack checks.
• Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee Singapore chilli-sauce ranges: not inventoried with verified lists in this pass. The search service rate-limited (429) during this pass, and the FairPrice/Cold Storage category pages returned by search were truncated — so these channels were not fully checked. House-brand chilli sauces, Donki/Meidi-Ya parallel imports (including Japanese chilli sauces), Mustafa's range and Shopee/Lazada reseller listings are the largest known gaps. In-store shelf checks and SG pack photos are what closes them.
• Chilli padi sauce as a named product: no product sold under that exact name with a retrievable verbatim list was found in this pass; chilli-padi heat appears inside several sambals above, but no standalone "chilli padi sauce" row is panelled. If one is found on a shelf, add it as its own row with its own pack list.
• Chilli crab / prawn meal sauces (AAA Singapore Chilli Crab Sauce, AAA Crispy Prawn Chilli, Prima Taste Singapore Chili Crab kit): out of scope for this page (meal sauces, not table chilli sauce); listed in the FairPrice inventory above only to avoid confusion.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g, from a UK retailer listing (secondary source — no Singapore nutrition panel was retrieved for any panelled product in this pass). Sugars here are total sugars as printed, not added sugars; the ingredient panels show which products add sugar and which do not. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these chilli-sauce listings in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The source retailer printed salt, not sodium, so the table shows sodium as derived from the printed salt (salt ÷ 2.5) with the printed salt in brackets. Sodium is not presented as salt, and salt is not presented as sodium.

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, cane sugar) 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. Carbohydrate was not stated in the source retrieved for any row below, so it is "not stated" throughout — it is not calculated from the sugar figure.

Observed numbers, no verdict: the three Lingham's rows list 59.3–64.8 g sugars per 100 g and 3.8–4.5 g salt per 100 g, with energy 261–279 kcal per 100 g. The Original has the most sugar (64.8 g) and the most salt (4.5 g) of the three; the Extra Hot has the least sugar (59.3 g) despite being the hottest. Fat is 0.1 g per 100 g in all three rows. No per-100 g nutrition figure was verified in this pass for any other panelled product, so this section does not compare sugar or salt across sriracha, sambal or sweet-chilli types.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Heinz Chilli Sauce, Maggi Chilli Sauce, Maggi Chilli Sauce with Garlic, Huy Fong Sriracha, Lingham's Sriracha 308g, Lingham's Ginger Garlic Chilli Sauce, Lingham's Ginger Chilli Sauce, ABC Sambal Asli Original, Flying Goose Sriracha Ghost Chilli, Woh Hup Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce, Woh Hup Garlic Chilli Sauce, Woh Hup Sambal Oelek, Woh Hup Sriracha, or Mae Ploy Sweet Chilli Sauce. For Mae Ploy, two retrieved sources conflict on sugars (Tesco: 49.1 g per 100 g, with 14.7 g per serving; a UK wholesaler: 64.3 g) — neither figure is used in the table until an SG pack settles it. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here, and the Lingham's rows above are not copied onto any other Lingham's variant.

How to read a chilli sauce label — the jargon, in plain English

Sweet chilli sauce

Sugar (or sugar + water) first, chilli later — often only 10–19% chilli. A dipping sauce, not a heat sauce. Mae Ploy is 46% sugar; Woh Hup Thai Sweet is 10% chilli.

Sriracha

A smooth, garlicky chilli sauce. The recipe varies by brand: Huy Fong starts with chilli and adds no water; Woh Hup and Lingham's start with water. Check the first ingredient, not just the word "sriracha" on the label.

Sambal / sambal oelek / sambal belacan

Sambal is an Indonesian/Malay chilli paste. Sambal oelek is (in principle) ground chillies with salt and vinegar; sambal belacan adds belacan — fermented shrimp paste — so it is not vegetarian and contains crustacean. Bottled "sambal oelek" in Singapore often adds water, sugar, onion and oil, so read the list rather than trusting the name.

Gochujang

A fermented Korean chilli paste, made from red chilli, glutinous rice and fermented soybeans. Thick, sweet-savoury and spoonable — a paste, not a pouring sauce. It contains soy (and usually wheat/barley in the fermentation base); check the allergen line.

Chilli garlic sauce

Chilli plus garlic as the two named ingredients, usually with sugar, salt and vinegar. Garlic at 11–21% in the panelled sauces is a real ingredient share, not a flavouring.

E211 / E202 / E330 / E415 / E621

Additives seen on this page: E211 sodium benzoate and E202 potassium sorbate are preservatives; E330 citric acid and E260 acetic acid are acidity regulators; E415 xanthan gum and E1422 are thickeners; E621 monosodium glutamate is a flavour enhancer. Their presence is not a verdict — it is a fact about the recipe.

Belacan / shrimp paste

Fermented ground shrimp, sun-dried. The defining ingredient of sambal belacan and of several Singapore sambals. Allergen: crustacean.

"No added sugar" vs "no sugar"

Chilli sauce almost always contains added sugar — every panelled product on this page lists sugar (or cane sugar) as an ingredient. A sauce that claimed "no added sugar" would be the exception; none panelled here does.

Peri peri

A Portuguese-African chilli sauce built on peri peri (bird's eye) chillies, usually with lemon, garlic and oil. No peri peri sauce was panelled in this pass (see seen-but-not-verified).

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Sweet chilli, sriracha, sambal and hot sauce 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. Only 1 of the 17 panelled lists comes from a Singapore retailer ingredient section; the other 16 are flagged non-SG sources, and the SG 280ml Lingham's bottles, the whole Singlong range, gochujang, Tabasco, Frank's RedHot, Nando's peri peri, Lee Kum Kee, Laoganma, Knife, Yeo's and Oh, and the Giant/Sheng Siong/Donki/Mustafa/Meidi-Ya/Le Petit Depot ranges are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice Singapore ingredient section (Heinz Chilli Sauce) and FairPrice "chili paste — sambal" category listings (inventory); Cold Storage Singapore listings (inventory only — no ingredient sections published); UK retailer transcriptions (Wai Yee Hong, Holleys Fine Foods, Oriental Mart, Thai Food Online, Sing Kee) for Lingham's, Maggi, Flying Goose and Woh Hup; distributor listing (Manning Impex) for ABC Sambal Asli; Open Food Facts (Huy Fong Sriracha world entry; Woh Hup Thai Sweet Chilli, countries sold: Singapore); brand site (Woh Hup Australia, corroborating Thai Sweet Chilli); manufacturer specification sheet and agreeing UK/US retailer listings (Mae Ploy); Shopee Singapore descriptions (Lingham's Original four ingredients); a Singapore food blog (Huy Fong at Cold Storage, 2013/2018). Limitation in this pass: the web-search service rate-limited (429) part-way through, so the Tabasco / Frank's RedHot / Nando's / Lee Kum Kee / gochujang searches did not return, and direct page fetches of the FairPrice and Cold Storage product pages failed (local worker error) — those products are therefore in seen-but-not-verified, not panelled from memory. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: 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 (here sodium is derived from printed salt). Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.