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Cornflakes: what's actually in it?

Plain cornflakes are a short-list product: corn, sugar, malt, salt, and added vitamins and minerals. That is the whole story for the panelled plain flakes below — the differences are in the percentage of corn, which malt is named, and which vitamins and minerals are listed. Flavoured cornflakes (honey, strawberry, frosted) are different products, with sugar much higher up the list in effect, and they are panelled separately only where a verbatim list was retrieved; otherwise they sit in seen-but-not-verified. This page covers plain cornflakes and flavoured cornflake variants sold in Singapore. It does not give a health score or a "best" pick, and it does not cover muesli, granola, oat cereals or other breakfast cereals — those are separate categories.

A note on the two Kellogg's lists below: the Singapore retail pack (Open Food Facts, countries sold including Singapore) lists corn 90%, while the Singapore foodservice / portion-pack listing (Direct Wholesale SG, origin Thailand) lists corn 88% with a shorter vitamin/mineral list. They are different pack formats with different lists — do not merge them into one "Kellogg's" row, and do not copy one list onto the other pack size.

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The Singapore retail Kellogg's Corn Flakes list is: corn (90%), sugar, malt extract, iodised salt, vitamins & minerals, antioxidant (mixed tocopherol). That is the reference point for the page — a short list, with sugar second.
Schär gluten-free cornflakes have no malt in the list. Schar Corn Flakes – Gluten Free (FairPrice) lists maize, sugar, salt, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin) and vitamins — no barley malt extract, which is the point of difference for a gluten-free flake.
The FairPrice house-brand mini-pack cornflakes component lists barley malt extract and an emulsifier (E471). FairPrice Cereals – Assorted (Mini Packs) lists its corn flakes component as maize, sugar, salt, barley malt extract, emulsifier (E471) and vitamins.
Flavoured variants were inventoried but not panelled. Kellogg's Corn Flakes (Honey Crunch) and (Strawberry), and FairPrice Cereal – Corn Flakes 250g/500g as a standalone product, were listed at FairPrice on 5 November 2026, but no full FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for any of them in this pass — see seen-but-not-verified. Do not assume a flavoured variant shares the plain list.
Nestlé cornflakes are panelled only as a flagged non-SG example. The Nestlé list below is from an Open Food Facts entry for a European pack (maize, sugar, salt, barley malt extract, iron, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamin B6, riboflavin, thiamin, folic acid, vitamin D, vitamin B12). It is not presented as the Singapore pack list — no SG Nestlé cornflakes ingredient section was retrieved.

At a glance

Product	Type	First ingredient	Added sugar?	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Kellogg's Corn Flakes — Singapore retail pack	Plain cornflakes	Corn (90%)	Yes — sugar (2nd)	500g	not stated
Kellogg's Corn Flakes Original — portion packs (SG foodservice listing)	Plain cornflakes	Corn (88%)	Yes — sugar (2nd)	18 × 150g	Thailand
Schar Corn Flakes — Gluten Free	Plain, gluten-free	Maize	Yes — sugar (2nd)	250g	Czech Republic
FairPrice Cereals — Assorted (Mini Packs), corn flakes component	Plain, mini-pack component	Maize	Yes — sugar (2nd)	200g (8 mini packs)	Germany
Nestlé Corn Flakes — flagged non-SG example only	Plain cornflakes (European pack)	Maize	Yes — sugar (2nd)	not stated	not stated

Panelled with verbatim lists: 5 products (4 Singapore-sold, 1 flagged non-SG example). Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below — it includes the FairPrice house-brand standalone corn flakes, Kellogg's Honey Crunch and Strawberry, and the Nestlé Singapore pack.

No prices are shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Plain cornflakes — Singapore-sold

Kellogg's Corn Flakes — Singapore retail pack (500g)

Pack size: 500g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, Singapore entry, barcode 8852756346053; countries where sold include Singapore; origin of ingredients Thailand): Corn (90%), Sugar, Malt Extract, Iodized Salt, Vitamins & Minerals (Vitamin C, Iron (Reduced Iron, Iron Salt), Vitamin B3, Zinc Oxide, Vitamin A, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B1, Folic Acid), Antioxidant (Mixed Tocopherol). Allergen Information: Contains gluten and soy. May contain traces of peanuts, tree nuts and milk.

Open Food Facts is a community database and is flagged as secondary where used: the pack and the retailer ingredient section take precedence if they disagree. This entry is the Singapore-sold pack (barcode 8852756346053, sold in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam), not a UK/US/Indian Kellogg's entry — those have different lists and are not used here. FairPrice lists the same product (Kellogg's Cereal – Cornflakes, 275g and 500g jumbo pack) but no FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for it in this pass. Plain Corn 90% Contains gluten, soy

Kellogg's Corn Flakes Original — portion packs (18 × 150g case, SG foodservice listing)

Pack size: 18 × 150g · Made in: Thailand (as printed)

Ingredients (Direct Wholesale Singapore): Corn (88%), sugar, salt, barley malt extract, vitamins (vitamin E, niacin, vitamin B6, riboflavin, folate), minerals (iron, zinc oxide). Allergen Notes: Contains cereals containing gluten. May contain traces of peanuts and/or tree nuts. Origin: Thailand.

A different list from the retail pack above: 88% corn (not 90%), salt before barley malt extract, and a shorter vitamin/mineral list with no iodised salt, no vitamin C and no antioxidant named. Sold in Singapore through Direct Wholesale as portion packs — panelled as its own pack format, not as the retail pack. Plain Corn 88% Portion packs

Schar Corn Flakes — Gluten Free (250g)

Pack size: 250g · Made in: Czech Republic (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Maize, Sugar, Salt, Emulsifier: Sunflower Lecithin, Vitamins (Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Vitamin B6, Riboflavin, Tiamin, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B12).

FairPrice SG listing, country of origin Czech Republic; listed as gluten-free, wheat-free, lactose-free, preservative-free, trans-fat free. No barley malt extract in this list — the distinguishing point against the Kellogg's and FairPrice mini-pack lists, which both name barley malt extract. Spelling "Tiamin" as printed in the FairPrice section. Plain Gluten-free No malt listed

FairPrice Cereals — Assorted (Mini Packs), corn flakes component

Pack size: 200g (8 mini packs) · Made in: Germany (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section, corn flakes component only): Corn Flakes: Maize, Sugar, Salt, Barley Malt Extract, Emulsifier (E471) and Vitamins [Vitamin B3 (Nicotinamide), Vitamin E (Dl-alpha-tocopheryl Acetate), Pantothenic Acid (Calcium-d-panthothenate), Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine Hydrochloride), Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), Vitamin B1 (Thiamine Mononitrate), Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin)].

FairPrice SG listing, country of origin Germany. This is a mixed mini-pack product (shellinos, corn flakes, chock 'n' roll and snowies) — only the corn flakes component is panelled here, as its own row, not as a standalone cornflakes pack. The other components in the pack have their own lists and are not panelled on this page. Plain Mini-pack component

Plain cornflakes — flagged non-SG example

Nestlé Corn Flakes — European Open Food Facts entry, SG pack not verified

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

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, barcode 4088600109411): maize, sugar, salt, barley malt extract, iron, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamin b6, riboflavin, thiamin, folic acid, vitamin d, vitamin b12. Allergens: Gluten.

Panelled only as a "what a Nestlé plain cornflakes list looks like" example. The entry's market is not Singapore, and no Singapore Nestlé cornflakes ingredient section was retrieved in this pass — do not present this as the SG pack list. Other Nestlé Open Food Facts entries (Polish, French, German) give different lists again (for example corn grits, sugar, salt, invert sugar syrup, molasses), which is itself the reason a non-SG list must not be borrowed as the SG pack. Non-SG example Not an SG shelf claim

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

FairPrice Cereal – Corn Flakes, 250g and 500g (standalone house-brand packs) — listed at FairPrice on 5 November 2026 (adult cereals / housebrand breakfast cereals categories), but no FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for the standalone packs in this pass. Do not copy the mini-pack component list above onto these packs — they are different products.
Kellogg's Cereal – Corn Flakes (Honey Crunch), 250g — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient section retrieved.
Kellogg's Cereal – Cornflakes (Strawberry), 250g — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient section retrieved.
Kellogg's Frosties Cornflakes Cereal, 175g — a frosted cornflakes variant sold in Singapore (Shopee SG); a reseller description gives maize, sugar, barley malt flavouring, salt, with corn about 69–70% and sugar around 27% — that is a reseller description, not a retailer ingredient section or pack list, so it is not panelled.
Nestlé Corn Flakes — Singapore pack — no SG ingredient section retrieved; the panelled Nestlé row above is a European entry, not the SG pack.
FairPrice Cereal – Snowy Flakes, 250g — listed at FairPrice; a frosted/sweetened flake, not a plain cornflake, and no ingredient section retrieved.
Shopee / Lazada Singapore Kellogg's Corn Flakes listings — reseller descriptions give "Corn (90%), Sugar, Malt Extract, Iodized Salt, Vitamins & Minerals…" and similar variants, but a reseller short description alone is not a verified pack list under the scope rule, and the listings disagree with each other (89% vs 90% corn). Seen-but-not-verified; the Open Food Facts Singapore entry above is the panelled source for the retail pack.
Other UK/US/Indian Kellogg's Corn Flakes Open Food Facts entries — for example UK (maize, barley malt extract, sugar, salt, niacin, iron, vitamin B6, riboflavin, thiamin, folic acid, vitamin D, vitamin B12), India (corn grits 90%, sugar, cereal extract, iodised salt, vitamins, minerals, antioxidant INS 307b) and Canada/France (milled corn, sugar, corn and barley malt extract, salt, colour) — different markets, different lists; none is panelled as an SG product.
Cold Storage, Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart cornflakes ranges — not inventoried with verified lists in this pass. Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page. House-brand cornflakes at Giant/Sheng Siong, imported cornflakes at Donki/Meidi-Ya/Le Petit Depot/Mustafa, and any Post, Sanitarium, Freedom Foods or other imported plain cornflakes on those shelves need in-store pack checks.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

No per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in full in this pass for any panelled product, so no nutrition table is given here. Per-serving figures (per 30 g serving) are not converted to per-100 g figures, and a nutrition figure from another market's pack is not copied onto an SG pack.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): Kellogg's Corn Flakes Singapore retail pack, Kellogg's Corn Flakes Original portion packs, Schar Corn Flakes – Gluten Free, FairPrice Cereals Assorted (Mini Packs) corn flakes component, and the Nestlé flagged non-SG example, plus every product in seen-but-not-verified above. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here. A pack photo of the nutrition panel (per 100 g, with energy, protein, total fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugars, sodium with salt equivalent = sodium × 2.5 in brackets) closes each one. Total vs added sugars: Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars separately — a total-sugars figure is never labelled here as "added sugar".

No Nutri-Grade was found printed on any cornflakes listing in this pass; none is quoted and none has been assigned. Nutri-Grade applies to beverages, not to breakfast cereals, in any case.

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

Corn / maize: The same grain — "maize" is the name used on the Schar and FairPrice lists, "corn" on the Kellogg's lists. The percentage (88% vs 90% in the two Kellogg's lists) is the share of the product that is corn.
Malt / barley malt extract / malt extract: A sweet, malty flavouring made from barley. Its presence is also why most cornflakes "contain gluten" — barley contains gluten. Schar's gluten-free list has no malt, which is the point.
Iodised salt: Salt with iodine added. The Singapore Kellogg's retail list names iodised salt; the portion-pack list names plain salt.
E471: Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids — an emulsifier, listed in the FairPrice mini-pack corn flakes component.
"Contains gluten" on a corn product: Corn itself is gluten-free; the gluten note comes from the barley malt extract (and, in the Kellogg's SG retail list, from soy). Check the allergen line, not just the first ingredient.
Frosted / honey / strawberry cornflakes: Plain cornflakes with a sweet coating or flavouring added. The ingredient list changes completely in effect — sugar moves from a small second ingredient to a large share — so a flavoured variant must never be assumed to share the plain list.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Plain, gluten-free and flavoured cornflakes 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 FairPrice standalone house-brand corn flakes, Kellogg's Honey Crunch and Strawberry, Frosties, and the Singapore Nestlé pack are not panelled, for the verification reasons given — not hidden. Do not treat the 4 Singapore panelled products as the whole Singapore shelf.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: Open Food Facts Singapore entry for Kellogg's Corn Flakes (barcode 8852756346053, countries sold including Singapore); Direct Wholesale Singapore for Kellogg's Corn Flakes Original portion packs (origin Thailand); FairPrice SG ingredient sections (Schar Corn Flakes – Gluten Free; FairPrice Cereals – Assorted Mini Packs corn flakes component) and FairPrice category listings (adult cereals; housebrand breakfast cereals) for the inventory of Kellogg's 275g/500g, Honey Crunch, Strawberry, FairPrice Corn Flakes 250g/500g and Snowy Flakes; Open Food Facts European entry for Nestlé Corn Flakes (barcode 4088600109411, flagged non-SG). 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.