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Coconut Water: what's actually in it?

Coconut water sold in Singapore is either 100% coconut water (one ingredient), coconut water from concentrate (water plus concentrate, sometimes with a little added sugar), or a coconut-water drink with fruit puree, coconut milk or added sugar — and the front of the carton rarely makes the distinction clear. UFC Refresh is the long-established Singapore brand (distributed here by Lam Soon); Kara, Vita Coco and Thai Coco are the other cartons most often on the same shelf. This page keeps the three groups separate, because a 100% coconut water and a coconut-water drink with added sugar are not the same product.

This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed and flags what to notice.

The headline, in 30 seconds

UFC Refresh Coconut Water is one ingredient. 100% natural coconut water, no added sugar, no preservatives, no additives, not from concentrate — per the brand FAQ and the Open Food Facts SG listing.
Kara is two ingredients. Fresh natural coconut water (99%) plus coconut water concentrate (1%), per the Open Food Facts listing for the SG-sold product. Manufactured in Indonesia.
UFC Coconut Twist is a different product from UFC Refresh. Coconut water mixed with coconut milk, plus coconut sugar, gellan gum, sucrose esters of fatty acids and polysorbate 60 — a creamy coconut drink, not a plain coconut water.
Vita Coco's list depends on the market. US retailer listings give "Coconut water, sugar, ascorbic acid" (or "less than 1% sugar"), while an EU Open Food Facts entry gives a from-concentrate list with water first. The SG pack must be checked before publish — the US list is panelled here only as a flagged non-SG list.
Thai Coco is the low-sugar contrast in the numbers. A Singapore shelf comparison (Sep 2026) photographed Thai Coco Organic at 15 kcal and 2.8 g sugars per 100 ml against UFC Refresh at 44 kcal and 9.0 g sugars per 200 ml serving — but no Thai Coco ingredient list was retrieved, so it stays seen-but-not-verified.

At a glance

Product	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)	Group	First ingredient	Flag to notice
UFC Refresh Coconut Water	1L	Thailand	100% coconut water	100% natural coconut water	No added sugar (brand)
Kara Coconut Water	not stated	Indonesia	Coconut water	Fresh natural coconut water (99%)	Plus 1% concentrate
UFC Refresh Coconut Twist Water	1L	Thailand	Coconut-water drink	Coconut water mixed with coconut milk	Coconut sugar added
Vita Coco Pure Coconut Water	not stated	not stated	Coconut water	Coconut water (non-SG list)	Sugar listed — verify SG pack
Vita Coco Coconut Water — Peach & Mango	not stated	not stated	Flavoured coconut water	Coconut water (non-SG list)	Mango + peach puree

Panelled with verbatim lists: 5 products. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below. No prices are shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

UFC Refresh Coconut Water

Pack size: 1L · Made in: Thailand (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts (secondary, countries include Singapore) and brand FAQ): 100% natural coconut water.

One ingredient. The brand FAQ states it is 100% natural coconut water with no added sugar, no preservatives and no additives, not made from concentrates, using fresh Thai coconut water from the "coconut belt" provinces (Nakhon Pathom, Samut Songkhram, Samut Sakhon, Ratchaburi), UHT-treated. Distributed in Singapore by Lam Soon. A Singapore shelf comparison photographed UFC at 44 kcal and 9.0 g total sugar per 200 ml serving with 36 mg sodium — see the per-serving nutrition table. No added sugar Not from concentrate Origin: Thailand Via: FairPrice

Kara Coconut Water

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

Ingredients (Open Food Facts (secondary, countries include Singapore)): Fresh Natural Coconut Water (99%), Coconut Water Concentrate (1%).

Two ingredients. Nutrition per 100 ml on the same listing: energy 80 kJ (19 kcal), fat 0 g, carbohydrates 4.44 g, sugars 2.52 g, protein 0 g, salt 0.0935 g. Halal, Kosher, Non-GMO Project certified per the listing. Origin: Indonesia

UFC Refresh Coconut Twist Water

Pack size: 1L · Made in: Thailand (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Coconut water mixed with coconut milk, Coconut sugar, Gellan gum, Sucrose esters of fatty acids, Polysorbate 60.

A coconut-water drink, not a plain coconut water: coconut water mixed with coconut milk, sweetened with coconut sugar. Described in FairPrice and press coverage as about 95% coconut water with coconut milk pressed from coconut flesh. Do not copy the UFC Refresh one-ingredient list onto this product. Added sugar: coconut sugar Origin: Thailand Via: FairPrice

Vita Coco Pure Coconut Water — flagged non-SG list, SG pack not verified

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

Ingredients (US retailer listings (Smart & Final, Quality Foods, Save-On-Foods) — NOT an SG pack list): Coconut Water, Less than 1% Sugar, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C). (A second US retailer listing gives: Coconut water, Sugar, Ascorbic acid.)

The two US listings agree on the three items but differ on the sugar wording ("less than 1% sugar" vs "sugar"). An EU Open Food Facts entry for Vita Coco 1 L gives a different, from-concentrate list (water, coconut water concentrate, coconut puree, fructose under 1%, ascorbic acid, gellan gum). The SG pack must settle which list applies in Singapore before publish. Non-SG list — verify SG pack Added sugar: under 1%

Vita Coco Coconut Water — Peach & Mango — flagged non-SG list

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

Ingredients (Open Food Facts (secondary, market not stated as Singapore)): Coconut water, mango puree, peach puree, vitamin C.

A flavoured coconut water: coconut water plus mango and peach puree, no added sugar listed. Nutrition per 100 ml on the same listing: energy 104 kJ (25 kcal), fat 0 g, carbohydrates 6.25 g, sugars 6.25 g, salt 0.0254 g. The SG pack must be checked before publish — this entry's market is not confirmed as Singapore. Non-SG list — verify SG pack Flavoured: peach, mango

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Thai Coco Organic Coconut Water — Seen on Singapore shelves and in a Sep 2026 Singapore shelf comparison (15 kcal, 2.8 g sugars per 100 ml photographed); no ingredient list retrieved, so it is seen-but-not-verified despite the nutrition photo.
F&N Seasons Coconut Water / other F&N coconut drinks — Sold in Singapore; no verbatim SG ingredient section retrieved in this pass.
Coco Thumb / fresh coconut water (chilled, whole young coconuts) — Sold chilled in supermarkets; a whole coconut has no ingredient list, and bottled fresh coconut water brands were not inventoried in full.
UFC Refresh Coconut Water — other formats (e.g. tetra packs, multipacks) — Same product, different formats; the 1 L list above is panelled once and is not re-panelled per format. Any format with a different list would be a separate row.
Vita Coco — other flavours (e.g. pineapple, orange, pressed coconut water) — USDA-derived listings exist for pineapple and orange variants (coconut water plus fruit puree); no SG pack lists retrieved.
Kara — other coconut products (coconut milk, coconut cream) — Different category (canned coconut milk); not panelled here.
Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Cold Storage, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee ranges — Checked only through the FairPrice listings and search results above in this pass; their full coconut-water shelves were not paginated in full. Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g or per 100 ml unless the Basis column says otherwise. Click a column header to sort low to high; click again for high to low. Rows marked "not stated" always sort last — a dash is missing data, not zero. Per-serving-only figures are in a separate table below and are never sorted against per-100 figures, and are never converted to per-100 by guessing.

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. Where a source printed salt only, the sodium figure is the arithmetic conversion (salt ÷ 2.5) and is flagged as converted.

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, sucrose, glucose syrup) 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.

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Kara Coconut Water	Per 100 ml, as sold	19 kcal	0 g	0 g	not stated	4.44 g	2.52 g	37 mg (salt 0.09 g) — sodium converted from printed salt
Vita Coco Coconut Water — Peach & Mango (non-SG listing)	Per 100 ml, as sold	25 kcal	not stated	0 g	not stated	6.25 g	6.25 g	10 mg (salt 0.03 g) — sodium converted from printed salt
Thai Coco Organic Coconut Water (shelf photo, Sep 2026)	Per 100 ml, as sold	15 kcal	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	2.8 g	12 mg (salt 0.03 g) — sodium converted from printed salt

Observed numbers, no verdict: in the per-100 ml table, sugars range from 2.52 g (Kara) to 6.25 g (Vita Coco Peach & Mango) per 100 ml. UFC Refresh's 9.0 g sugars is per 200 ml serving, not per 100 ml — it is in the separate per-serving table and must not be compared gram-for-gram with the per-100 ml rows.

Per-serving figures only (separate table — do not compare with per-100 rows)

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
UFC Refresh Coconut Water	Per serving (200 ml), as sold — per serving, not per 100 ml	44 kcal	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	9.0 g	36 mg (salt 0.09 g)

Per-serving figures quoted exactly as printed, with the serving size in the Basis column, flagged "per serving, not per 100 g/ml".

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 ml nutrition panel was verified in this pass for UFC Refresh Coconut Water, UFC Coconut Twist Water, or Vita Coco Pure Coconut Water (SG pack). Their ingredient panels are unchanged. The UFC per-serving figures above (44 kcal, 9.0 g sugars per 200 ml) come from a photographed SG shelf comparison, not a retrieved nutrition panel, and are in the per-serving table for that reason.

How to read a coconut water label — the jargon, in plain English

Not from concentrate (NFC): The coconut water was packed as pressed, not evaporated to concentrate and re-diluted. UFC Refresh states it is not from concentrate.
From concentrate: The water was concentrated for transport and water was added back. Kara is 99% fresh coconut water plus 1% concentrate — a small concentrate share, but still from concentrate in part.
Coconut sugar: Sugar made from coconut palm sap. It is still added sugar — "coconut sugar" in the UFC Twist list is a sweetener, not a sign of no added sugar.
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C): An antioxidant added to keep the water from browning. Vita Coco lists it; it is also a vitamin, but here it is a processing aid.
Gellan gum: A gelling/thickening agent. In UFC Twist it gives body to the coconut-milk blend; it is not in plain coconut water.
Electrolytes: Minerals in coconut water (potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium, phosphorus) that the brand mentions. They are naturally present, not added — check the list, not the claim.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. The groups on this page 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 products in seen-but-not-verified are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden. No page claims 100% completeness.

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: FairPrice ingredient section (UFC Refresh Coconut Twist Water); Open Food Facts (Kara Coconut Water, SG-sold; UFC Refresh Coconut Water 1 L, SG-sold; Vita Coco Peach & Mango); UFC Refresh brand FAQ (ufcrefreshcoco.com); US retailer listings for Vita Coco Pure (Smart & Final, Quality Foods, Save-On-Foods — flagged non-SG); Singapore shelf-comparison photo of UFC Refresh vs Thai Coco Organic (Sep 2026, Instagram — nutrition figures only, no Thai Coco list). Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.