Household Ingredients Compared › Cooking Oil (Singapore)

Cooking oil: what's actually in it?

The short answer: for most cooking oils, the ingredient list is one line — the oil itself. The comparison is therefore about which oil or oils, and in what blend. "Vegetable oil" and "cooking oil" on the front are not ingredients; they are umbrella names that can hide palm olein, soybean oil, peanut oil and sesame oil in one bottle. Olive oil is deliberately excluded here — it has its own page.

This page does not give a health score or a ranking, and does not pick a "best" oil. It shows the oil composition as printed, flags blends vs single oils and allergens (peanut, sesame, soy), and explains the jargon in plain English.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Knife Brand Cooking Oil — the Singapore household staple — is a four-oil blend: refined palm olein (RSPO certified), soybean oil, peanut oil and sesame oil. That is why it smells faintly of peanut, and why peanut/sesame/soy allergen notes apply.
"Vegetable oil" at FairPrice is also a blend: refined palm olein + refined soya bean oil. Do not read it as a single oil.
Naturel's Premium Blend is exactly what its name says: canola & sunflower seed oil — two oils, no palm, no peanut, no sesame in the list.
Single-oil bottles are genuinely single: Knife 100% Pure Groundnut Oil is 100% groundnut (peanut) oil; RiceField is 100% rice bran oil; FairPrice Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil is 100% coconut oil. The word "100%" on those bottles matches the ingredient list.
The gap on this page is now smaller, but not closed. Naturel Canola and Naturel Sunflower are panelled in this re-audit (5 Nov 2026) from the Lam Soon brand-range description — but flagged, because their FairPrice ingredient sections were not retrieved. FairPrice Canola Oil, FairPrice Sunflower Oil and FairPrice Premium Cooking Oil are still seen-but-not-verified: no list at all was retrieved for the house-brand bottles.
Little Farms was checked for cooking oil: no Little Farms own-brand or distinct cooking-oil product with a verified list was found in this pass beyond the general grocery range — recorded here so the check is visible, not hidden. Little Farms' distinct contribution in this batch is in the potato-chips category, not here.

At a glance

Product	Type	Composition as printed	Allergen flags in list	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Knife Brand Cooking Oil / Premium Cooking Oil	Blend	Refined palm olein, soybean oil, peanut oil, sesame oil	Soy, peanut (nuts), sesame	1L / 2L	not stated
Knife 100% Pure Groundnut Oil	Single	100% groundnut oil	Peanut (nuts)	3L	Malaysia
Naturel Premium Blend of Canola & Sunflower	Blend (2 oils)	Canola & sunflower seed oil	None stated in list	2L / 3L	Malaysia
FairPrice Vegetable Oil	Blend	Refined palm olein, refined soya bean oil	Soy (via soya bean oil)	not stated	not stated
RiceField 100% Pure Rice Bran Oil	Single	100% rice bran oil	None stated in list	not stated	Thailand
FairPrice Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil	Single	Organic extra virgin coconut oil	None stated in list	not stated	not stated
Double Elephant 100% Fragrant Sesame Oil — Black (FairPrice SG)	Single	Pure oil of roasted sesame seed (100% sesame oil)	Sesame	not stated	Singapore
Knife Rice Bran Oil (ShopMustafa)	Single — flagged	100% pure rice bran oil (retailer/brand description; ingredient section not retrieved)	None stated in list	2L / 3L	not stated
Oki Premium Sunflower & Canola Blended Oil (FairPrice SG)	Blend (2 oils)	Sunflower oil and canola oil	None stated in list	2L	not stated
Naturel Cooking Oil — Canola (Lam Soon brand range)	Single — flagged	100% canola oil (brand description; FairPrice ingredient section not retrieved)	None stated in list	1L / 2L / 3L	Malaysia
Naturel Cooking Oil — Sunflower (Lam Soon brand range)	Single — flagged	100% sunflower oil (brand description; FairPrice ingredient section not retrieved)	None stated in list	not stated	Malaysia

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only. Olive oil (including Naturel Pure Olive Oil and FairPrice olive oils) is excluded — separate page.

Panelled products

Knife Brand Cooking Oil / Premium Cooking Oil (blend)

Pack size: 1L / 2L · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients: Refined Palm Olein (RSPO certified), Soybean Oil, Peanut Oil and Sesame Oil. Allergens: Contain soy, nuts and sesame.

Shopee SG seller listing for Knife Brand Premium Cooking Oil, and ShopMustafa's Knife Blended Oil listings, give the same four-oil blend. Older listings phrase it as "super refined deodorised palm olein, soya bean oil, peanut oil and sesame oil" — same four oils, different wording for the palm fraction. No proportions are printed. Blend: 4 oils Allergens: soy, peanut, sesame

Knife 100% Pure Groundnut Oil (single)

Pack size: 3L · Made in: Malaysia (as printed)

Ingredient: 100% Groundnut Oil. Allergen: Contain nuts. Country of origin: Malaysia.

Groundnut oil is peanut oil — same oil, different name. This is the single-oil version of Knife's peanut note: if you want the peanut aroma without palm/soy/sesame, this is the Knife bottle that lists only peanut. Single oil Allergen: peanut

Naturel Cooking Oil — Premium Blend of Canola & Sunflower (blend)

Pack size: 2L / 3L · Made in: Malaysia (as printed)

Ingredients: Canola & Sunflower Seed Oil.

Open Food Facts listing for Naturel Blend Canola & Sunflower (Malaysia origin). No proportions are printed in the list; do not quote a canola/sunflower ratio — the database estimate (75/25) is an estimate, not a printed figure, and is not used here. Blend: 2 oils

FairPrice Vegetable Oil (blend)

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

Ingredients: Refined Palm Olein, Refined Soya Bean Oil.

FairPrice's own description: "Made up of versatile palm oil" and "FairPrice 100% Pure Vegetable Oil is made of palm and soya bean oil." The "100% pure" here means 100% vegetable oil (no other ingredient), not 100% of one oil — a wording trap worth naming. Blend: 2 oils

RiceField 100% Pure Rice Bran Oil (single)

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

Ingredients: 100% Rice Bran Oil.

FairPrice listing, origin Thailand. Brand background: first to introduce rice bran oil to Singapore; factory produces only rice bran oil to prevent contact with other varieties. Sold at FairPrice, Giant, Sheng Siong, CS Fresh and RedMart/Shopee per brand coverage. Single oil

FairPrice Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil (single)

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

Ingredients: Organic extra virgin coconut oil.

Open Food Facts SG listing, origin Philippines, packed in Malaysia, Halal. Included as a cooking oil (it is sold as a cooking/frying oil as well as a general-purpose oil); it is not a blend. Single oil Organic

Double Elephant 100% Fragrant Sesame Oil — Black (single)

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

Ingredients: Pure Oil of Roasted Sesame Seed. Key information on the FairPrice listing: “100% sesame oil.” Origin: Singapore.

FairPrice SG ingredient section for “Oh Chin Hing Double Elephant Brand Sesame Oil — Black”. A genuine single oil: roasted sesame seed only, no blend. Sesame oil is usually a flavouring oil used in small amounts, not a bulk frying oil — but it is a cooking oil and is panelled here as one. Single oil Allergen: sesame Re-audit 5 Nov 2026

Knife Rice Bran Oil (single) — retailer description; ingredient section not retrieved

Pack size: 2L / 3L · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredient: 100% Pure Rice Bran Oil.

ShopMustafa lists “Knife Rice Bran Oil 3L” and describes it as “Knife 100% Pure Rice Bran Oil”; FairPrice lists “Knife Brand Rice Bran Oil 2L”. The “100% Pure Rice Bran Oil” wording is a seller/brand description, not a transcribed FairPrice ingredient section, so this panel is flagged — the SG pack ingredient section still needs checking before publish. ShopMustafa also confirms Knife Blended Oil composition matches the already-panelled Knife four-oil blend above, so no new panel is needed for that. Single oil Re-audit 5 Nov 2026

Oki Premium Sunflower & Canola Blended Oil (blend)

Pack size: 2L · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients: Sunflower Oil and Canola Oil.

FairPrice SG ingredient section for “Oki Premium Blended Sunflower Canola Oil 2L”. The FairPrice description notes saturated fat below 9% and “25% lower in saturated fat vs regular cooking oil” — a brand comparison, quoted as the brand's claim, not adopted here. No proportions are printed in the list. Blend: 2 oils Re-audit 5 Nov 2026

Naturel Cooking Oil — Canola (single) — brand-range description; FairPrice ingredient section not retrieved

Pack size: 1L / 2L / 3L · Made in: Malaysia (as printed)

Ingredient: 100% Canola oil.

Lam Soon Group's Naturel brand page describes the range as including “Naturel 100% Canola oil” (noting Omega 3, cholesterol free) and a DHA variant; FairPrice lists Naturel Canola Oil in 1L/2L/3L. That is a brand-range description, not a per-SKU FairPrice ingredient section, so this panel is flagged — the SG bottle's ingredient section still needs checking before publish. Do not quote a DHA content for the standard bottle; the DHA variant is a separate SKU. Single oil Re-audit 5 Nov 2026

Naturel Cooking Oil — Sunflower (single) — brand-range description; FairPrice ingredient section not retrieved

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

Ingredient: 100% Sunflower oil.

Lam Soon Group's Naturel brand page describes the range as including “Naturel 100% Sunflower oil”; FairPrice lists Naturel Sunflower Oil. Same flag as the Canola panel above: a brand-range description, not a per-SKU FairPrice ingredient section — the SG bottle's ingredient section still needs checking before publish. Single oil Re-audit 5 Nov 2026

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

FairPrice Canola Oil; FairPrice Sunflower Oil; FairPrice Premium Cooking Oil. All listed at FairPrice; no full ingredient section retrieved in this pass. Do not assume 100% canola / 100% sunflower from the product name — a "canola oil" bottle can legally be a canola-led blend in some markets, and the SG list must be checked. (Naturel Canola and Naturel Sunflower are now panelled above, flagged, from the brand-range description.)
Knife Blended Oil variants by pack size. Listed at ShopMustafa; the blended-oil list matches Knife Brand Cooking Oil above (confirmed in the re-audit), so no separate panel is needed. (Knife Rice Bran Oil is now panelled above, flagged.)
Other sesame oils: Double Pagoda Sesame Oil — Pure; Chee Seng Sesame Oil — White; Lee Kum Kee Pure Sesame Oil; Sunlight Brand Pure Fragrant Sesame Oil; Double A 100% Sesame Oil — Black & White. All listed at FairPrice; no verbatim ingredient list was retrieved for any of them in this pass — do not borrow the Double Elephant list. (Double Elephant Black is now panelled above.) Sesame oil is a distinct category (usually a flavouring oil, not a bulk frying oil).
Peanut/groundnut oils other than Knife (e.g. import / Mustafa groundnut oils). Listed in Mustafa cooking-essentials ranges; no specific SKU list retrieved.
Sunflower/canola/vegetable blends from other brands (e.g. Golden Chef, Lam Soon, etc.). Seen as a category at FairPrice/Giant/Sheng Siong; no specific SKU with a verified list retrieved in this pass.
Avocado oil, grapeseed oil, and spray oils (e.g. Naturel Spray Oil — Avocado Olive). Spray oils are a different format (oil + propellant, sometimes with olive oil — which belongs on the olive-oil page); no spray-oil list is panelled here.
Little Farms cooking oil. Little Farms (littlefarms.com) was checked for this category: no distinct Little Farms cooking-oil product with a verified ingredient list was found in this pass. If a Little Farms oil appears in store, add it as a new row with its list — do not assume it matches any bottle above.
Giant / Sheng Siong / Cold Storage / Donki / Mustafa / Meidi-Ya / Le Petit Depot / RedMart own-brand and import cooking oils. Beyond the FairPrice/Mustafa items above, no additional SKU with a verified list was retrieved in this pass; the oil aisle needs an in-store check, especially for Giant/Sheng Siong house brands.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

Oils are, by nature, almost entirely fat, so protein, carbohydrate, sugars and sodium are 0 g / 0 mg where the panel states them — but that does not make the saturated-fat figures interchangeable: the panelled oils differ in saturated fat, and the one clear brand panel here is RiceField rice bran oil at 21.8 g saturated fat per 100 ml. No Nutri-Grade letter is quoted for any oil: the Singapore Nutri-Grade extension to cooking oil is described in official material as coming into effect from mid-2027, so no current pack grade was relied on here.

Salt = sodium × 2.5. Sodium is shown as printed; the salt equivalent is in brackets. Sodium is never presented as salt. Figures below are total sugars as printed on Singapore-style packs, not added sugars — the ingredient list on this page remains the evidence for added sugar versus naturally occurring sugars. No Nutri-Grade letter is quoted unless it was found printed on the pack or listing; none is assigned here, and no health score or verdict is given.

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Naturel Cooking Oil — Premium Blend of Canola & Sunflower	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts, secondary)	819 kcal	—	91 g	0 g as listed — see conflict note	—	—	0 mg
RiceField 100% Pure Rice Bran Oil	Per 100 ml, as sold	820 kcal	0 g	91.1 g	21.8 g	0 g	0 g	0 mg

— means not stated in the source found for that row, not zero. Per-serving rows are quoted exactly as printed and are not converted to per 100 g/ml. Where sources conflict, the conflict is flagged in the notes below and in the research notes, not silently resolved.

Conflict — Naturel saturated fat. The Open Food Facts panel lists saturated fat as 0 g per 100 g, which sits uneasily with a separate secondary per-serving source for the same blend (13 g serving: saturated fat 1 g). The 0 g figure is shown exactly as listed and is not treated as a verified 0 g; the per-serving figure is not converted to per 100 g. A pack photo is needed to settle Naturel. For all oils, figures are per 100 g or per 100 ml exactly as the source basis states — oil panels in Singapore commonly use per 100 ml, and the two rows above use different bases, so they are not directly like-for-like on energy/fat totals.

Seen but not verified (nutrition) — do not use figures for these until checked from the pack:

Knife Brand Cooking Oil / Premium Cooking Oil (blend) — no brand-specific nutrition panel verified; the Knife corn-oil figures found in a student comparison (per 100 ml: 900 kcal, fat 100 g, saturated fat 13.5 g) are for corn oil, not this blend, and are not borrowed here.
Knife 100% Pure Groundnut Oil (single) — no brand-specific panel verified; do not borrow a generic groundnut-oil figure.
FairPrice Vegetable Oil (blend) — no brand-specific panel verified.
FairPrice Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil (single) — no brand-specific panel verified; generic coconut-oil figures found (fat 99.6 g, saturated fat 93.5 g per 100 g) are not this brand's panel and are not used.
Double Elephant 100% Fragrant Sesame Oil — Black — no nutrition panel verified in this pass.
Knife Rice Bran Oil — no nutrition panel verified in this pass.
Oki Premium Sunflower & Canola Blended Oil — no nutrition figures retrieved in this pass (the FairPrice page shows a NUTRITIONAL DATA heading with no figures retrieved).
Naturel Cooking Oil — Canola — no brand-specific panel verified in this pass.
Naturel Cooking Oil — Sunflower — no brand-specific panel verified in this pass.

How to read a cooking oil label — the jargon, in plain English

Palm olein: The liquid fraction of palm oil. "Refined palm olein" on a blend list means refined palm oil's liquid part — it is still palm oil for allergen/labelling purposes, just a different fraction from palm stearin (the solid part).
RSPO certified: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certification, printed for Knife's palm olein. It is a sourcing claim about the palm oil, not an ingredient difference.
Groundnut = peanut: Same plant, same oil, two names. "Groundnut oil" on a bottle is a peanut allergen, full stop.
"100% pure" vs "100% [named oil]": "100% pure vegetable oil" can mean 100% oil (a blend) with no other ingredient. "100% rice bran oil" / "100% groundnut oil" means the oil itself is all one type. Read which noun the 100% attaches to.
Refined vs extra virgin vs cold-pressed: Refining removes flavour/colour and raises smoke point; extra virgin (coconut, olive) means unrefined, first extraction. These are processing words, not extra ingredients — a refined oil and an unrefined oil can have the same one-line ingredient list.
Blends without proportions: Most SG blend bottles list oils in descending order by weight but do not print percentages. Order tells you the largest component, not the ratio — do not quote a ratio that is not printed.
Canola: Oil from a low-erucic-acid rapeseed variety. "Canola oil" and "rapeseed oil" on different bottles can be the same crop family, but the label word is what is compared here.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not medical advice. Saturated-fat / smoke-point claims are not made here; Singapore's Nutri-Grade extension to cooking oils (from mid-2027, per 2026 brand coverage) is a labelling change, not a verdict on any bottle on this page.
Not a taste test, and not a price comparison.
Not complete. FairPrice house-brand canola/sunflower/premium oils, the other sesame oils, and Giant/Sheng Siong house oils are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden. Naturel Canola/Sunflower and Knife Rice Bran are panelled but flagged — their SG ingredient sections still need checking.
Not an olive-oil page. Olive oils (pure, extra virgin, blends with olive oil) are excluded by design.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: NTUC FairPrice product/category pages; Shopee SG Knife listing; ShopMustafa Knife listings; Open Food Facts for Naturel Blend and FairPrice Organic Coconut Oil; RiceField brand coverage (2026). Re-audit 5 Nov 2026 added: FairPrice SG ingredient sections for Double Elephant Black Sesame Oil and Oki Premium Sunflower & Canola Blended Oil; ShopMustafa listing for Knife Rice Bran Oil; Lam Soon Group Naturel brand page for Naturel Canola/Sunflower; FairPrice category listings naming Double Pagoda, Chee Seng, Lee Kum Kee, Sunlight and Double A sesame oils (seen only). Channels checked: FairPrice (incl. Online/Finest/Xtra), Cold Storage, Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, RedMart, Lazada, Shopee Singapore, Little Farms. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes.