Household Ingredients Compared › Cream and Sour Cream (Singapore)

Cream and sour cream: what's actually in it?

Most of this shelf is one ingredient — cream — plus a stabiliser. The differences are fat content and what was done to it. Whipping cream is about 35% fat and whips into peaks. Cooking cream is about 20% fat and is built not to split in a hot pan. Thickened cream is whipping-strength cream with thickeners (carrageenan, guar gum) so it holds its shape. Double cream is thicker still, with skim milk and thickeners. Sour cream is cream fermented with a culture — tangy, spoonable, about 35% fat in the full-fat version — and the light version swaps much of the cream for skim milk. Crème fraîche is the French cousin: cultured cream, usually without gelatine or thickeners. The fat percentage on the front tells you what it will do; the ingredient list tells you what was added to make it do it.

This page covers whipping, cooking, thickened and double cream (UHT and fresh), sour cream and crème fraîche sold in Singapore. It does not cover butter, milk, or non-dairy whip toppings as a main subject — Emborg Whip Topping is noted in seen-but-not-verified because it is a palm-oil topping, not cream. It does not give a health score or a "best" pick.

The headline, in 30 seconds

The shortest list panelled here is Emborg Rich Sour Cream: pasteurised cream, lactic culture. Two ingredients, from the brand's Singapore site.
Most creams are cream plus carrageenan (E407). Emborg Whipping Cream and Emborg Cooking Cream are both cream plus stabiliser E407 — the difference between them is fat (35.1% vs 20%), not the ingredient logic.
Bulla Thickened Cream adds a second thickener. Fresh cream plus carrageenan and guar gum — the thickeners are what make it "thickened" rather than just cream.
Bulla Sour Cream has two different lists in circulation. FairPrice's section says "Cream, Halal Gelatine, Sour Cream Culture"; the Open Food Facts Singapore entry says "Fresh Cream (Milk), Fresh Skim Milk, Halal Gelatine, Cultures (Milk)". Both are quoted, and the SG pack still needs a photo to settle which one is on the shelf now.
Crème fraîche is the gap on this page. Elle & Vire crème fraîche is sold in Singapore through import channels, but no SG verbatim list was retrieved for it — the French lists found are not quoted as the SG pack.

At a glance

Product	Type	Fat (where stated)	First ingredient	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Emborg Whipping Cream, 200ml / 1L	Whipping cream, UHT	35.1%	Cream made from cow's milk	200ml / 1L	not stated
Emborg Cooking Cream	Cooking cream	20%	Cream (cow milk)	not stated	not stated
Bulla Thickened Cream, 600ml	Thickened cream	35%+ (no less than 35% milk fat)	Fresh cream (milk)	600ml	Australia
Bulla Double Cream, 200ml	Double cream	not stated in list retrieved	Fresh cream (milk)	200ml	Australia
Bulla Sour Cream — Original, 200ml	Sour cream	35% (FairPrice: no more than 35% milk fat)	Cream / fresh cream	300ml	Australia
Emborg Rich Sour Cream	Sour cream	30%	Pasteurised cream	200ml	Australia
Bulla Light Sour Cream, 200ml	Sour cream, light	18% (foodservice spec)	Fresh skim milk	not stated	not stated
Bulla Cooking Light Thickened Cream, 300ml	Cooking cream, light thickened	not stated in list retrieved	Reduced fat cream (milk)	200ml	Australia

Panelled with verbatim lists: 8 products. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below. No prices are shown: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Whipping cream

Emborg Whipping Cream, 200ml / 1L

Pack size: 200ml / 1L · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts Singapore, 200ml entry): Cream made from cow's milk (35.1% milk fat), stabiliser (E407 Carrageenan). Contains Allergen: Milk. Storage: +2–+5 °C. Do not freeze.

The reference whipping cream for this page. The 200ml UHT carton is the Open Food Facts Singapore entry; the 1L UHT carton is the same product in a larger pack, and FairPrice also sells a separate Emborg Chef's Selection Whipping Cream (NZ) 1L at 35.7% dairy fat — that NZ chilled product is not this row, and its own list was not retrieved, so it is not panelled here. The stabiliser is carrageenan, E407, the only addition to the cream. Whipping cream UHT 35.1% fat

Cooking and thickened cream

Emborg Cooking Cream

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

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, countries sold include Singapore): Cream (cow milk), stabiliser (carrageenan E407)

Same two-ingredient logic as the whipping cream, at a lower fat level — 20% fat against 35.1% — which is why it is sold for cooking rather than whipping. The Open Food Facts entry lists France and Singapore as countries where sold. Cooking cream 20% fat

Bulla Thickened Cream, 600ml

Pack size: 600ml · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (Australian lists agreeing — SG pack not transcribed): Fresh Cream (Milk), Thickeners (Carrageenan, Guar Gum). Contains no less than 35% Milk Fat.

Bulla's all-purpose thickened cream: fresh cream plus two thickeners, carrageenan and guar gum. It is sold as a pouring, dolloping and light-whipping cream. Flag: Australian lists (including the Open Food Facts Australian 600ml entry); Bulla is sold at FairPrice in Singapore, but no SG pack transcription was retrieved in this pass, so the SG pack still needs a photo. Thickened cream 35%+ fat Origin: Australia

Bulla Double Cream, 200ml

Pack size: 200ml · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts entry — market not confirmed as Singapore): FRESH CREAM (MILK), FRESH SKIM MILK, THICKENERS (PECTIN, CARRAGEENAN).

Double cream with skim milk added and two thickeners (pectin and carrageenan) — a thicker, spoonable cream rather than a pouring one. Flag: Open Food Facts entry with no country-of-sale confirmation for Singapore in the snippet retrieved; SG sale and SG pack both need verification before this is treated as an SG shelf row. Double cream

Bulla Cooking Light Thickened Cream, 300ml

Pack size: 300ml · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, Australian entry — SG sale not confirmed): PASTEURISED REDUCED FAT THICKENED COOKING CREAM INGREDIENTS: REDUCED FAT CREAM (MILK), THICKENERS (1422, XANTHAN GUM, CARRAGEENAN), EMULSIFIER (472) MINERAL SALT (POTASSIUM CHLORIDE). CONTAINS: MILK. Contains on average 49% less fat compared to Bulla Thickened Cream.

The light cooking version: reduced-fat cream, three thickeners (1422 modified starch, xanthan gum, carrageenan), an emulsifier (472) and potassium chloride as a mineral salt. Flag: Australian entry (Coles/Woolworths); SG sale not confirmed, so this is a flagged non-SG panel, not an SG shelf claim. Cooking cream Light / reduced fat Origin: Australia

Sour cream

Bulla Sour Cream — Original, 200ml

Pack size: 200ml · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice Singapore ingredient section): Cream, Halal Gelatine, Sour Cream Culture. Contains milk and milk products. Contains no more than 35% milk fat.

Ingredients (Open Food Facts Singapore entry, fuller): FRESH CREAM (MILK), FRESH SKIM MILK, HALAL GELATINE, CULTURES (MILK).

FairPrice's best-selling sour cream, and the one case on this page where two sources disagree in detail: FairPrice lists three items (cream, gelatine, culture); the Singapore Open Food Facts entry adds fresh skim milk and pluralises the cultures. Both are quoted here rather than silently picking one — an SG pack photo is needed to settle it. Either way, the construction is the same: cream, halal gelatine as the thickener, and a sour-cream culture for the tang. Sour cream 35% fat Halal gelatine

Emborg Rich Sour Cream

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

Ingredients (Emborg brand site, Singapore page — main-ingredients summary): Pasteurised cream, lactic culture

The shortest list on this page: pasteurised cream and a lactic culture, with no gelatine and no thickener listed. The brand describes it as "made only with natural ingredients" and lists it as available in Asia, with a Singapore product page. Flag: this is the brand's "main ingredients" summary, not a full pack transcription — if the SG tub carries thickeners or other items, they would not appear in this summary, so the SG pack still needs a photo. FairPrice also lists an "Emborg Sour Cream 1kg" — whether that 1kg tub is this Rich Sour Cream or the separate Emborg Fresh Sour Cream (10% fat, with thickeners) was not established in this pass, so the 1kg size is not panelled as this product. Sour cream 30% fat

Bulla Light Sour Cream, 200ml

Pack size: 200ml · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (Australian lists — SG sale not confirmed): FRESH SKIM MILK, FRESH CREAM (MILK), HALAL GELATINE, CULTURES (MILK).

The light version reverses the order: skim milk first, cream second. A Bulla foodservice specification for its reduced-fat sour cream gives a shorter list (Reduced Fat Cream, Halal Gelatine, Sour Cream Culture) with 18% milk fat and 49% less fat than the premium sour cream — that is the foodservice line, not necessarily this retail 200ml tub, and the two are not merged here. Flag: Australian lists; SG sale of the retail Light tub was not confirmed in this pass. Sour cream Light Origin: Australia

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Emborg Chef's Selection Whipping Cream (NZ), 1L — sold chilled at FairPrice, 35.7% dairy fat, made from NZ milk; no verbatim ingredient list was retrieved in this pass. Do not assume it shares the UHT 200ml list above — it is a different (chilled, NZ) product.
Emborg Sour Cream, 1kg (FairPrice) — FairPrice lists a 1kg Emborg sour cream, but it was not established whether it is the Rich Sour Cream (30% fat, cream + culture) or the Fresh Sour Cream (10% fat, "sour cream, thickeners" per the brand site). Needs a pack check; the two are different products.
Emborg Fresh Sour Cream — brand site lists main ingredients as "Sour cream, thickeners" with 10% fat; that is a summary, not a verbatim pack list, and SG sale of the retail tub was not confirmed. Not panelled.
Elle & Vire Whipping Cream and Elle & Vire Crème Fraîche — Elle & Vire cream is used by Singapore bakeries and sold through import channels (Le Petit Depot, specialty grocers), but no SG verbatim list was retrieved for either the whipping cream or the crème fraîche in this pass. French Open Food Facts lists for crème fraîche exist but are not quoted as SG packs.
President Whipping / Cooking Cream, Meadow Fresh Thickened Cream, Paul's Thickened / Pure Cream, Anchor Cream — brands present in Singapore dairy aisles, but no SG verbatim list was retrieved for any of them in this pass. Needs pack photos.
Crème fraîche generally (Isigny and other French brands) — no SG verbatim list retrieved for any crème fraîche sold in Singapore in this pass; the generic French list ("cream, selected ferments") is not quoted as an SG pack.
Emborg Whip Topping, 1L — a non-dairy topping (water, palm kernel oil, sweetener, palm shortening, sodium caseinate, emulsifier, stabiliser, salt, artificial flavouring), seen on Shopee listings outside Singapore; it is not cream, so it is out of scope as a panel and noted here only so it is not mistaken for a whipping-cream row.
Emborg Sweetened Whipped Cream Spray, 250ml — a sweetened spray cream (cream, sugar, emulsifiers E471/E472b, stabiliser E407, propellant N2O); SG sale not verified in this pass; not panelled.
House-brand cream / sour cream, Don Don Donki fresh cream, Meidi-Ya / Le Petit Depot imported cream, Little Farms cream — not inventoried with verified lists in this pass; needs in-store pack checks.
Bulla Dollop Thick Cream, 200ml — an Open Food Facts entry exists (36% fat) but no ingredient list was retrieved in this pass; not panelled.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g. Sugars here are the milk's own sugars (lactose) unless the ingredient list shows added sugar — none of the panelled creams lists added sugar. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these listings in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned. (Open Food Facts Nutri-Score grades, e.g. D for Emborg Whipping Cream, are a different scheme and are not presented here as a Nutri-Grade.)

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Where the source gives salt rather than sodium, sodium is derived as salt ÷ 2.5 and shown as such. 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 versus naturally occurring sugars (lactose in cream/milk).

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 products.

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Emborg Whipping Cream	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts Singapore, secondary)	338 kcal (1,415 kJ)	2.2 g	35.1 g	22 g	3.4 g	3.3 g	12 mg (salt 0.03 g)
Emborg Cooking Cream	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts, secondary)	210 kcal (879 kJ)	2.8 g	20 g	13 g	4 g	4 g	36 mg (salt 0.09 g)
Bulla Thickened Cream	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts, Australian entry, secondary)	336 kcal (1,405 kJ)	not stated	35.6 g	23.7 g	not stated	not stated	not stated
Bulla Sour Cream — Original	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts Singapore, secondary)	339 kcal (1,420 kJ)	not stated	35.8 g	23.8 g	2.9 g	2.9 g	not stated
Emborg Rich Sour Cream	Per 100 g, as sold (Emborg brand site)	296 kcal (1,221 kJ)	3 g	30 g	20.1 g	3.5 g	3.5 g	80 mg (salt 0.2 g)

Observed numbers, no verdict: Bulla Sour Cream lists 339 kcal per 100 g, Emborg Whipping Cream 338 kcal and Bulla Thickened Cream 336 kcal — the three full-fat creams sit within 3 kcal of each other — while Emborg Cooking Cream lists 210 kcal and Emborg Rich Sour Cream 296 kcal. Sodium is 12 mg per 100 g for Emborg Whipping Cream, 36 mg for Emborg Cooking Cream and 80 mg (from 0.2 g salt) for Emborg Rich Sour Cream. No per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for the other panelled products, so this section does not compare them on numbers.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Bulla Double Cream, Bulla Light Sour Cream, and Bulla Cooking Light Thickened Cream. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here. (Bulla Light Sour Cream's foodservice specification gives 187 kcal, 18 g fat, 12 g saturated fat, 3.9 g carbohydrate and 3 g protein per 100 g, but that is a foodservice document, not a retail pack panel, so it is not tabled as the retail tub's nutrition.)

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

Whipping vs cooking vs thickened vs double cream: Whipping cream (~35% fat) whips into peaks. Cooking cream (~20% fat) is made not to split when heated, and will not whip well. Thickened cream is whipping-strength cream with thickeners added so it holds its shape. Double cream is thicker and spoonable, often with skim milk and thickeners.
UHT: Ultra-high-temperature treated — heated briefly to a very high temperature so the cream keeps for months unopened at room temperature or chilled, depending on the pack. It is not a different ingredient; it is a heat treatment.
Carrageenan (E407) / guar gum (E412) / pectin: Thickeners and stabilisers from seaweed, beans and fruit. One thickener is typical in whipping and cooking cream; thickened and double creams usually have two.
Sour cream culture / lactic culture: The bacteria that ferment the cream and give sour cream its tang. Sour cream is cream plus culture (plus, in Bulla's case, gelatine); crème fraîche is cream plus culture without the gelatine.
Halal gelatine: Gelatine certified halal, used in Bulla sour cream as the thickener that lets it hold its shape. Its presence is why Bulla sour cream is spoonable rather than pourable.
"No more than 35% milk fat": A maximum, not an exact figure — the cream contains up to 35% milk fat. Do not read it as exactly 35%.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Whipping, cooking, thickened, double and sour creams are different products for different uses, 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. Elle & Vire and President creams, crème fraîche, the NZ Emborg Chef's Selection whipping cream and the 1kg Emborg sour cream are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice Singapore ingredient sections and category listings (Bulla Sour Cream Original, Emborg Whipping Cream 1L NZ listing, Emborg Sour Cream 1kg listing, cooking/thickened creams category); Open Food Facts Singapore entries (Emborg Whipping Cream 200ml, Bulla Sour Cream 200ml, Emborg Cooking Cream); Open Food Facts Australian entries (Bulla Thickened Cream, Bulla Double Cream, Bulla Cooking Light Thickened Cream); Emborg brand site Singapore page (Rich Sour Cream main ingredients and nutrition) and Emborg Fresh Sour Cream page; Australian retail/specification sources (Bulla Light Sour Cream lists, Bulla foodservice specifications). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so its shelf could not be panelled from its site. 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.