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Croissants and Danish pastries: what's actually in them?

A real croissant is flour, butter, water, yeast, sugar and salt — butter is the fat, at roughly a quarter of the dough. Most packaged croissants sold in Singapore are not that: they are made with palm oil and other vegetable oils, glucose-fructose syrup, and a long preservative list, with butter — if any — near the end. Danish pastries add a filling (custard, fruit, chocolate) on top of the same dough. This page keeps all-butter croissants separate from palm-oil croissants, because that is the whole difference.

This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed, with the country of manufacture as printed where a source states it.

Completeness statement — checked 12 November 2026

Stores/channels checked 12 November 2026: FairPrice (web search of its product pages), Cold Storage (availability only — Cold Storage publishes no ingredient lists), Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, RedMart, Lazada SG, Shopee SG, Guan Chun Ding SG (7Days distributor), Open Food Facts (secondary). Panelled: 4 products. Seen-but-not-verified: 8 products. This is extensive at the check date only — stock and formulations change, and no page claims permanent 100% completeness.

At a glance

Product	Pack size (as printed)	Group	First ingredient	Added sugar / sweetener?	Country of manufacture (as printed)
7Days Croissant — Cocoa Filled	60g	Filled croissant	Wheat flour	Yes — sugar, glucose-fructose syrup	Malaysia (per SG distributor listing for 7Days Vanilla/Berries; cocoa variant not stated)
7Days Croissant — Vanilla / Berries	60g	Filled croissant	Wheat flour	Yes — sugar, glucose-fructose syrup	Malaysia
Prêt à Manger All Butter Croissants	330g (6 × 55g)	All-butter croissant	Wheat flour	Yes — sugar	not stated
Tesco All Butter Almond Croissant	not stated	All-butter, filled	Wheat flour	Yes — sugar, invert sugar syrup	not stated

Panelled with verbatim lists: 4 products. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below. No prices are shown: they change weekly and would go stale.

7Days Croissant — Cocoa Filled

Pack size: 60g · Made in: Malaysia (per SG distributor listing for 7Days Vanilla/Berries; cocoa variant not stated) (as printed)

Ingredients (Spoonful / Open Food Facts, SG-market 7Days list (secondary) — SG pack not transcribed): Croissant: Wheat Flour (Gluten), Vegetable Oils (Palm Oil, Sunflower Oil, Cotton Seed Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Sugar, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Yeast, Salt, Stabiliser (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Vanillin, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Preservative (Calcium Propionate 0.1%), Cocoa Filling 23%: Palm Oil, Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Fat-Reduced Cocoa Powder 7%, Skimmed Milk Powder, Ethyl Alcohol, Emulsifier (Polyglycerol Esters of Fatty Acids), Vanillin, Gelling Agent (Sodium Alginate), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate 0.1%).

No butter in the dough — palm oil is the fat. The cocoa filling is 23% of the product and is palm oil first. Ethyl alcohol is listed in the filling. Palm oil first fat Added sugar: sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, glucose syrup Allergen: wheat, milk, soy (lecithin in related listings)

7Days Croissant — Vanilla / Berries

Pack size: 60g · Made in: Malaysia (as printed)

Ingredients (Guan Chun Ding SG distributor listing (SG-facing retailer) — product of Malaysia): INGREDIENTS: Wheat Flour, Vegetable Fat (Palm), Sugar, Mixed Berries Jam (10.40%), Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Mixed Berries (40%) (Strawberry, Red Currant, Blackberry, Raspberry, Blueberry), Sugar, Gelling Agent (INS440), Acidity Regulator (INS330), Flavouring Substance, Preservative (INS202), Glucose Syrup, Emulsifiers (INS471, INS475), Milk Powder, Stabilisers (INS420(i), INS1520, INS466), Yeast, Salt, Preservatives (INS282, INS202), Eggs (Hen). Contains Wheat (Gluten), Eggs, and Milk.

Palm fat is the second ingredient; the berries jam is 10.40% of the product and the berries inside it are 40% of the jam. Two preservatives are listed twice in the source list, as printed. Origin: Malaysia Palm fat Allergen: wheat, egg, milk

Prêt à Manger All Butter Croissants

Pack size: 330g (6 × 55g) · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, UK entry (secondary) — SG sale not verified): Wheat Flour, Butter (Milk) (24%), Water, Sugar, Yeast, Wheat Gluten, Salt, Free-Range Egg, Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid.

The reference all-butter list on this page: butter 24%, nine ingredients, no palm oil, no syrup, no preservative. Panelled as the all-butter comparator, not as a confirmed SG shelf product. Butter 24% Allergen: wheat, milk, egg UK listing only

Tesco All Butter Almond Croissant

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

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, UK entry (secondary) — SG sale not verified): Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Butter (Milk) (22%), Sugar, Almonds (9%), Water, Yeast, Pasteurised Egg, Invert Sugar Syrup, Wheat Gluten, Salt, Whey Powder (Milk), Modified Potato Starch, Flavourings, Dried Skimmed Milk, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid), Thickener (Sodium Alginate), Stabilisers (Tetrasodium Diphosphate, Calcium Sulphate), Dried Cream (Milk), Carrot Extract.

Butter 22% and almonds 9%, but invert sugar syrup is also in the list — an all-butter croissant is not automatically a low-sugar one. Butter 22% Almonds 9% Allergen: wheat, milk, egg, almond UK listing only

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Gardenia croissants / Danish pastries — Sold in Singapore; no FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for any Gardenia croissant in this pass.
La Boulangère croissants and pain au chocolat — Sold in Singapore (including Amazon SG listings); no SG verbatim list retrieved.
Delifrance frozen croissants — Sold in Singapore; no SG verbatim list retrieved.
Sunshine croissants — Sold in Singapore; no SG verbatim list retrieved.
7Days Croissant — Chocolate, Strawberry, Vanilla (other fillings) — Other 7Days fillings are sold in Singapore; only Cocoa and Vanilla/Berries were panelled here, from the lists retrieved.
Selection Croissant (Canada, Open Food Facts) — Palm-margarine croissant listed on Open Food Facts; not an SG product, not panelled.
Bakery-counter croissants (FairPrice / Cold Storage in-store bakery) — Loose bakery items have no pack and no list; out of scope for verbatim panelling.
Donki / Meidi-Ya imported French croissants — Parallel-import croissants may be on these shelves; no list was retrieved in this pass.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the sortable table are as sold, per 100g or per 100ml, as printed by the source. Click a column header to sort low to high; click again for high to low. Cells marked "not stated" always sort last — a dash is missing data, not zero. No per-100g nutrition panel was verified for any croissant in this pass; the table is all not stated rather than filled from another variant.

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.

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 (sucrose, sugar, glucose syrup, maltitol) versus naturally occurring sugars (lactose in milk, fructose in fruit).

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.)
7Days Croissant — Cocoa Filled	Per 100g, as sold	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated
7Days Croissant — Vanilla / Berries	Per 100g, as sold	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated
Prêt à Manger All Butter Croissants	Per 100g, as sold	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated
Tesco All Butter Almond Croissant	Per 100g, as sold	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated

Seen but not verified (nutrition): all four panelled croissants — no per-100g nutrition panel was verified in this pass.

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

All-butter croissant: A croissant whose fat is butter (typically 22–29% of the dough). The ingredient list says butter, not palm oil or margarine.
Palm oil / palm fat: The usual fat in packaged croissants; it is solid at room temperature like butter, which is why it is used, but it is a vegetable oil, not butter.
Glucose-fructose syrup: A liquid sweetener made from starch; an added sugar, listed separately from sugar.
Ethyl alcohol: Listed in some 7Days fillings; it is part of the filling formulation as printed, not an added drink ingredient.
Danish pastry: A laminated pastry like a croissant dough, with a filling (custard, fruit or chocolate) and often a glaze; the dough list is the same family as a croissant.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. This page does not rank products.
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.

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: Spoonful and Open Food Facts for 7Days Cocoa Filled; Guan Chun Ding SG distributor listing for 7Days Vanilla/Berries (product of Malaysia); Open Food Facts UK entries for Prêt à Manger All Butter Croissants and Tesco All Butter Almond Croissant (secondary, flagged as UK listings). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient lists. No SG pack was transcribed in this pass.