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Chocolate bars: what's actually in it?

Three different things share the chocolate shelf. A plain chocolate block is mostly sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass and milk powder. A filled or nut/caramel bar adds peanuts, caramel, nougat, wafer or a cream filling — and with them, glucose syrup, vegetable fats, egg white and extra flavourings. And a sugar-free or "zero" bar replaces sugar with a bulk sweetener such as maltitol and adds sweeteners such as sucralose. The front of the pack rarely makes the distinction clear; the ingredient list does.

This page covers chocolate bars and blocks sold in Singapore — milk, dark, white and filled/nut/caramel variants, as separate rows. It does not cover chocolate spread (already a separate page) or malted chocolate drinks (a separate page in this batch). It does not give a health score or a "best" pick. No prices are shown: they change weekly and would go stale.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Sugar is first in almost every panelled bar. Kit Kat 2 Finger Milk, both Lindt Excellence bars panelled here, Delfi Top, Tesco Milk and both Feastables bars all start with sugar. The exceptions are the wafer-led Kit Kat Green Tea (vegetable fat & oils first) and the sugar-free Lotte Zero Mild (maltitol first).
• A plain block can be very short. Tesco Milk Chocolate Bar lists just six ingredients: sugar, dried whole milk, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, emulsifier (soya lecithin), flavouring. Feastables Dark is also short: sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, milkfat, lecithin (soy), natural vanilla extract.
• Filled bars are long lists, not just "chocolate plus nuts". Snickers Peanut adds peanuts, glucose syrup, a second dose of sugar and skim milk powder, vegetable fat, salt, egg whites and flavours on top of its milk-chocolate coating. Choco Zen Pistachio Kunafa lists three separate components — milk chocolate, pistachio cream (43% pistachio) and roasted kunafa — plus white chocolate.
• "Zero" does not mean a short list. Lotte Zero Mild is sugar-free, but its list runs through maltitol, processed oil, vegetable cream, polyglycitol syrup, sucralose, wheat gluten, processed cheese and several flavourings. Sugar-free and simple are different claims.
• Cocoa content is stated differently by brand. Lindt Excellence Extra Creamy states cocoa solids min. 30% and milk solids min. 20%; Tesco Milk states cocoa solids 31% minimum and milk solids 31% minimum; Lindt Mint Intense states dark plain chocolate min. 47%. Those percentages are not comparable across brands without reading what each one counts.
• The biggest names are mostly not panelled yet. Mars, Toblerone, Meiji blocks, Ritter Sport and most Lindt Excellence dark variants were inventoried at FairPrice but no verbatim SG ingredient section was retrieved for them in this pass — they are in seen-but-not-verified below, not panelled on a guess. Cadbury Dairy Milk is panelled only from Open Food Facts (secondary, market not confirmed as Singapore) — see its flag.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 12 products (11 from FairPrice Singapore ingredient sections, 1 — Cadbury Dairy Milk — from Open Food Facts, flagged as secondary with its SG market not confirmed). Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below — it includes Mars, Toblerone, Meiji, Ritter Sport, most Lindt Excellence dark variants, Twix, Glico Pocky and Hershey's bars.

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

Plain milk chocolate blocks

Dark chocolate blocks

Wafer bars

Filled, nut and caramel bars

Sugar-free bar

FairPrice — the chocolate bars & blocks shelf (inventory, 5–6 Nov 2026)

FairPrice's own category is "Chocolate Bars & Blocks". Its category and similar-products listings inventoried in this pass include, in addition to the 11 panelled FairPrice rows above: Toblerone Swiss Chocolate Bar — Milk / Dark / White (100g) and Tiny Chocolate Sharebag — Dark; Mars Chocolate Bar 47g; Meiji Chocolate Block — Milk / Black, Meiji Chocolate — Almond / Macadamia / Almond (Black); Ritter Sport — Dark Whole Almond, White Whole Hazelnuts, Dark Whole Hazelnuts; Lindt Excellence — 85% (Dark), 90% (Dark), Sea Salt (Dark); Lindt Swiss Classic Chocolate Bar — Milk; Cadbury White Chocolate Bar — Dream; M&M's Chocolate Block — Milk; Whittaker's Mini Milk Chocolate Bar — Almond Gold and Mini Dark Chocolate Bar — Almond & Cranberry; Kinder Bueno Chocolate Wafer Bar — White T2; The Belgian Dark Chocolate Bar — No Sugar Added; Van Houten Dark Milk Chocolate Bar; Snickers Chocolate Bar — Strawberry; Kit Kat Chocolate Bar — Dark with Mint. None of these was panelled: no verbatim SG ingredient section was retrieved for any of them in this pass (see seen-but-not-verified).

Cold Storage — checked 5–6 Nov 2026

Cold Storage's Snacks & Confectionery listings inventoried in this pass include Lindt Excellence Bar Creamy Chocolate 100g and Ritter Sport Rum Raisins Hazelnuts Chocolate 100g, and its promotions list Toblerone Mini Dark/Milk, Lindt Excellence assorted 100g and Kit Kat Chocolate Block assorted. Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so nothing is panelled from Cold Storage in this pass; its shelf is inventoried here, not panelled. Hershey's Pearls Dark Chocolate Tin 50g also appears at Cold Storage — that is a tin of pearls, not a bar/block, so it is out of this page's scope and is noted here only so it is not mistaken for a missing bar.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Mars Chocolate Bar 47g; Twix (no SG FairPrice ingredient section retrieved in this pass — named in the brief, not found as a panelled listing); Toblerone Milk / Dark / White 100g and Tiny Sharebag Dark — all inventoried at FairPrice, no verbatim SG ingredient list retrieved. Do not borrow the UK/US Mars, Twix or Toblerone lists as the SG pack list.
• Meiji Chocolate Block — Milk / Black; Meiji Chocolate — Almond / Macadamia / Almond (Black) — inventoried at FairPrice, no verbatim SG list retrieved. Meiji Chocorooms — Strawberry is a different product (biscuit snack), not a bar.
• Ritter Sport — Dark Whole Almond, White Whole Hazelnuts, Dark Whole Hazelnuts, Rum Raisins Hazelnuts (Cold Storage) — inventoried at FairPrice / Cold Storage, no verbatim SG list retrieved.
• Lindt Excellence — 85% (Dark), 90% (Dark), Sea Salt (Dark); Lindt Swiss Classic — Milk; Lindt Excellence Creamy Chocolate (Cold Storage) — inventoried, no verbatim SG list retrieved for these variants. Do not copy the Extra Creamy or Mint Intense lists onto them.
• Cadbury Dairy Milk — SG pack; Cadbury White Chocolate Bar — Dream; Cadbury other variants (Daim, Crunchie, Flake, etc.) — the Dairy Milk row above is Open Food Facts only, with a conflicting second entry; the SG pack still needs a photo. Dream and the other variants have no SG list retrieved.
• Snickers Chocolate Bar — Strawberry; Kit Kat Chocolate Bar — Dark with Mint; Kit Kat other FairPrice variants (4 Finger single, Chunky, etc.) — inventoried, no verbatim SG list retrieved. Do not assume the 2 Finger Milk list covers them.
• M&M's Chocolate Block — Milk; Whittaker's Mini Milk — Almond Gold and Mini Dark — Almond & Cranberry; Kinder Bueno White T2; The Belgian Dark — No Sugar Added; Van Houten Dark Milk — inventoried at FairPrice, no verbatim SG list retrieved.
• Glico Pocky (chocolate snack bar, per the brief) — no SG ingredient section retrieved in this pass. Pocky is a biscuit stick coated in chocolate, not a chocolate bar; if panelled later it needs its own row and its own list, not a borrowed one.
• Hershey's chocolate bars — no Hershey's bar with a verbatim SG list was retrieved in this pass. Hershey's Pearls (tin, Cold Storage) is not a bar and is out of scope.
• Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee Singapore chocolate-bar ranges — not inventoried in this pass (see Sources and method: search rate-limiting and failed page fetches stopped the wider inventory). Their shelves — including Donki/Meidi-Ya parallel imports, Mustafa imported bars, and Lazada/Shopee parallel-import listings — remain an open gap, not a claim that nothing else is sold there.
• House-brand and seasonal/limited-edition bars, and any FairPrice chocolate-bar listing beyond those named above — the FairPrice category page was inventoried from search-returned listings, not paginated end-to-end in this pass, so further FairPrice bars may exist that are not named here.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g. Sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars separately. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these chocolate 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 instead of sodium, sodium is derived as salt ÷ 2.5 and the salt figure is the printed one — see the notes under the table. 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". The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, glucose syrup, dextrose, maltitol/sucralose in the sugar-free bar) 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. The two rows below are from non-SG retailers (UK/Ireland/Netherlands listings of the same named products) — they are not SG pack nutrition, and the SG pack still needs checking.

Observed numbers, no verdict: Lindt Excellence Extra Creamy lists 50 g sugars and 37 g total fat per 100 g; Snickers Peanut lists 49 g sugars and 25 g total fat per 100 g, with 9 g protein (the peanuts) against Lindt's 6.4 g. Sodium derived from printed salt is 112 mg per 100 g for Lindt and 212 mg for Snickers. These two rows are not comparable as SG products — both are non-SG listings of the same named bars, and Open Food Facts Snickers entries disagree with each other (468–492 kcal, salt 0.50–0.63 g per 100 g), which is why only the single UK retailer row is tabled, with its source named.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Kit Kat 2 Finger Milk, Lindt Excellence Mint Intense Dark, Delfi Top, Lotte Zero Mild, Choco Zen Pistachio Kunafa, Tesco Milk, Feastables Milk Almond, Feastables Dark, Kit Kat Mini Green Tea, Cadbury Dairy Milk (SG pack), or any seen-but-not-verified product above. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here, and the Lindt Extra Creamy row above is not copied onto other Lindt variants, nor the Snickers row onto Snickers Strawberry.

How to read a chocolate bar label — the jargon, in plain English

Cocoa butter / cocoa mass (cocoa liquor)

Cocoa butter is the fat pressed from cocoa beans; cocoa mass is the ground, whole cocoa bean. A plain block lists both, usually after sugar and milk powder. "Cocoa solids" on the front is a minimum percentage, not a full list.

Cocoa butter equivalent / fractionated fat / vegetable fat

Fats other than cocoa butter used in the chocolate — palm, shea, illipe, palm kernel. Cadbury's list flags "contains cocoa butter equivalent in addition to cocoa butter"; Kit Kat lists palm kernel, palm, illipe and shea as vegetable fat & oil.

E442, E476, E322 (soya lecithin)

Emulsifiers — they keep fat and other ingredients mixed. E322 is lecithin (usually soya, sometimes sunflower); E476 is polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR); E442 is ammonium phosphatides. They are not sweeteners.

Glucose syrup / dextrose / maltitol / sucralose

Sweeteners beyond plain sugar. Glucose syrup and dextrose are sugars made from starch (Delfi Top lists both). Maltitol (E965) is a bulk sugar replacer used in sugar-free chocolate; sucralose (E955) is an intense sweetener used alongside it in Lotte Zero.

"Dark" does not mean dairy-free

Both dark bars panelled here — Lindt Mint Intense and Feastables Dark — list milk fat / milkfat. Check the allergen line, not the colour name.

Wafer vs block vs filled bar

A wafer bar (Kit Kat) is mostly wafer + coating; a block (Lindt, Tesco, Feastables, Cadbury) is solid chocolate; a filled bar (Snickers, Delfi Top, Choco Zen) has a nougat/caramel/cream centre with its own ingredients. The first ingredient changes with the type.

"No added sugar" vs "sugar-free" vs "no sugar added"

Chocolate naturally contains no fruit sugar to confuse the issue — here "sugar-free" (Lotte Zero) means sugar was replaced, usually by maltitol. It does not mean unsweetened, and it does not mean a short ingredient list.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Plain blocks, wafer bars, filled bars and sugar-free bars 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. Mars, Toblerone, Meiji, Ritter Sport, most Lindt dark variants, Twix, Glico Pocky and Hershey's bars are inventoried but not panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden. Giant, Sheng Siong, Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee were not inventoried in this pass at all — see Sources and method.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice Singapore ingredient sections as returned in search results (Kit Kat 2 Finger Milk, Lindt Excellence Extra Creamy Milk, Lindt Excellence Mint Intense Dark, Snickers Peanut, Delfi Top Share Pack, Lotte Zero Mild, Choco Zen Pistachio Kunafa Milk, Tesco Milk, Feastables Milk Almond, Feastables Dark, Kit Kat Mini Green Tea); FairPrice Chocolate Bars & Blocks category and similar-products listings (inventory for the seen-but-not-verified list); Cold Storage Snacks & Confectionery listings and promotions (inventory only — Cold Storage publishes no ingredient sections); Open Food Facts (Cadbury Dairy Milk 100g entry, secondary, and the conflicting 200g entry noted in the research notes); Dunnes Stores / Hancocks / Lindt NL listings (Lindt Extra Creamy nutrition, agreeing, non-SG); One Stop UK (Snickers Peanut nutrition, non-SG). Limitations in this pass, stated plainly: a second batch of web searches hit a 429 rate limit and was not retried, and direct fetches of three FairPrice product pages failed with a local worker error and were not repeated — so no further FairPrice ingredient sections were retrieved beyond the search-returned ones above, and Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee Singapore were not inventoried. The FairPrice category page was inventoried from search-returned listings, not paginated end-to-end. 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. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.