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Custard, Jelly and Pudding: what's actually in it?

Three different desserts share this shelf. Milk pudding is a set milk dessert — water, sugar, milk solids and a stabiliser, with egg yolk in the custard-caramel version. Fruit cup jelly is fruit pieces in a sweetened gel — the fruit is first, sugar is second. Konjac and dosari jelly is a Japanese-style fruit jelly set with konjac and gelling agents, often with sweeteners alongside sugar. And custard powder is the dry mix you make custard from — mostly starch, sugar and milk powder. This page keeps the four groups separate, because a jelly and a pudding are not the same product even when they sit in the same chiller.

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

Marigold Milk Pudding — Custard Caramel is a milk dessert, not a custard made from eggs. Water and sucrose first, then milk solid, dextrine and glucose, with egg yolk listed — and cocoa and cultured milk also in the list.
Marigold fruit cup jellies lead with the fruit. Whole longan in the Longan Almond cup, mango dice in the Golden Mango cup — sugar is second in both.
Tarami konjac jellies are sweetened twice. Granulated sugar plus sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose) in both the Mango and Muscat flavours.
Tarami Dosari Mandarin Orange Jelly is the simplest jelly list here. Mandarin oranges first, then sugar/fructose-glucose corn syrup and fruit juice, set with agar and a gelling agent.
Grass jelly is a different plant entirely. Sen Soh Grass Jelly is water, aqueous extract of Mesona chinensis, sugar and starch — no gelatin, no konjac.
Custard powder is starch first, not egg. RedMan Custard Powder is modified starch, salt, vanillin powder and permitted colours; the Super Instant version is sugar, modified starch, skimmed milk powder, dairy solids and glucose.

At a glance

Product	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)	Group	First ingredient	Flag to notice
Marigold Milk Pudding — Custard Caramel	95g	Malaysia	Milk pudding	Water	Egg yolk listed; cocoa and cultured milk also listed
Marigold Fruit Cup Jelly — Longan Almond	2 × 125g	Malaysia	Fruit cup jelly	Whole longan	Sugar second; factory also handles milk, soy, egg, fish
Marigold Fruit Cup Jelly — Golden Mango	2 × 125g	Malaysia	Fruit cup jelly	Mango dice	Sugar second
Tarami Dosari Series — Mandarin Orange Jelly	not stated	not stated	Fruit jelly	Mandarin oranges (China)	Agar + gelling agent
Tarami Delicious Konjac Jelly — Mango	150g	Japan (retailer-stated)	Konjac jelly	Apple juice	Sugar + 3 sweeteners
Tarami Delicious Konjac Jelly — Muscat	150g	Japan (retailer-stated)	Konjac jelly	Muscat juice	Sugar + 3 sweeteners; contains liquor
Sen Soh Grass Jelly Cups	not stated	Singapore	Grass jelly	Water	Mesona chinensis extract
RedMan Super Instant Custard Powder	not stated	Singapore	Custard powder	Sugar	Mix with water only
RedMan Custard Powder	not stated	Singapore	Custard powder	Modified starch	Tartrazine (E102) colour

Panelled with verbatim lists: 9 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.

Marigold Milk Pudding — Custard Caramel

Pack size: 95g · Made in: Malaysia (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Water, Sucrose, Milk Solid, Dextrine, Glucose, Permitted Stabiliser (of Plant Origin) and Emulsifier, Egg Yolk, Permitted Flavouring, Permitted Colouring, Cocoa, Vitamin C and Cultured Milk. Allergen note: contains milk and egg.

The only milk pudding panelled with a full SG ingredient section in this pass. Note the list order: water and sucrose first, milk solid third — this is a sweetened milk gel with egg yolk, not an egg custard. Cocoa and cultured milk are also listed, which is unusual for a caramel custard and is quoted as printed, not explained away. Allergen: milk, egg Origin: Malaysia Via: FairPrice

Marigold Fruit Cup Jelly — Longan Almond

Pack size: 2 × 125g · Made in: Malaysia (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Whole Longan, Sucrose, Permitted Stabiliser (of Plant Origin) and Flavouring, Calcium Lactate, Vitamin C, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid and Permitted Colouring. Allergen note: produced in a factory where milk, soy, egg and fish products are also handled.

Fruit first, sugar second — the fruit-cup pattern. The almond in the name does not appear as an ingredient in the retrieved list; the flavouring entry is the only place it could sit, so do not assume real almond is present. Fruit first Via: FairPrice

Marigold Fruit Cup Jelly — Golden Mango

Pack size: 2 × 125g · Made in: Malaysia (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Mango Dice, Sucrose, Permitted Stabiliser (Of Plant Origin) and Flavouring, Calcium Lactate, Vitamin C, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid and Permitted Colouring. Allergen note: produced in a factory where milk, soy, egg and fish products are also handled.

Same list pattern as the Longan Almond cup, with mango dice in place of whole longan. Manufacturer: Malaysia Dairy Industries Pte Ltd, per the FairPrice listing. Fruit first Origin: Malaysia Via: FairPrice

Tarami Dosari Series — Mandarin Orange Jelly

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

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Mandarin Oranges (China), Sugar/Fructose-Glucose Corn Syrup, Fruit Juice (Apples, Oranges), Agar/Acidulant, Gelling Agent (Polysaccharide Thickener), Antioxidant (Vitamin C), Flavoring, Calcium Lactate, Modified Starch.

Sold by Free Star International Pte. Ltd. at FairPrice. The fruit is first and the sweetener is a sugar/fructose-glucose syrup blend; agar and a polysaccharide gelling agent set it. Fruit first Via: FairPrice

Tarami Delicious Konjac Jelly — Mango Flavor

Pack size: 150g · Made in: Japan (retailer-stated) (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Apple juice (manufactured in China), indigestible dextrin (dietary fiber), granulated sugar, mango (puree, fruit juice), konjac powder / flavoring, acidulant, gelling agent (polysaccharide thickener), sweetener (aspartame / L-phenylalanine compound, acesulfame potassium, sucralose), K chloride.

Apple juice is first, not mango — mango is fourth. Sweetened twice: granulated sugar plus three sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose). Aspartame is a source of phenylalanine, as the list itself states. Sweeteners: aspartame, acesulfame-K, sucralose Via: FairPrice

Tarami Delicious Konjac Jelly — Muscat Flavor

Pack size: 150g · Made in: Japan (retailer-stated) (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Muscat juice (manufactured in Austria), indigestible dextrin (dietary fiber), granulated sugar, liquor, konjac powder / acidulant, flavoring, gelling agent (polysaccharide thickener), sweetener (aspartame / L-phenylalanine compound, acesulfame potassium, sucralose), potassium chloride, safflower pigment, gardenia pigment.

Same konjac-jelly pattern as the Mango flavour, with muscat juice first — and liquor in the list, which the Mango flavour does not have. Do not copy one flavour's list onto the other. Sweeteners: aspartame, acesulfame-K, sucralose Contains liquor Via: FairPrice

Sen Soh Grass Jelly Cups

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

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Water, Aqueous extract of Mesona Chinesis, Sugar, Starch & Herba Elsholtziae.

Four ingredients. Mesona chinensis (spelled "Chinesis" on the FairPrice listing, quoted as printed) is the grass-jelly plant; Herba Elsholtziae is a herbal addition. No gelatin, no konjac, no milk — this is a different dessert from the milk puddings and fruit jellies above. Origin: Singapore Via: FairPrice

RedMan Super Instant Custard Powder

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

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Sugar, Modified Starch, Skimmed Milk Powder, Dairy Solids, Glucose.

The "super instant" difference, per FairPrice: this version is mixed with water and whisked, while the regular RedMan Instant Custard Powder requires added sugar and milk or water. Sugar is first here — the regular version's list is different (see next card). Origin: Singapore Via: FairPrice

RedMan Custard Powder

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

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Modified Starch, Salt, Vanillin Powder & Permitted Colours (Tartarzine E110).

Quoted as printed, including the retailer's spelling "Tartarzine" for tartrazine (E102). No milk powder and no sugar in this list — unlike the Super Instant version above, this one needs sugar and milk or water added by the cook. The two RedMan powders are separate rows for that reason. Colour: tartrazine (E102) Origin: Singapore Via: FairPrice

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Marigold Milk Pudding — Chocolate — Seen at FairPrice and in Marigold's own range (Puding Susu Coklat); no SG ingredient section retrieved in this pass. Do not assume it matches the Custard Caramel list.
Marigold Milk Pudding — other flavours — Sweet Corn with Coconut Milk and other Malaysian-market flavours appear in Marigold Desserts Malaysia material; SG availability and lists not verified.
Marigold Fruit Cup Jelly — other flavours — Peach, Grape, Aloe Vera and Orange/Jackfruit flavours are named in Marigold social posts and in-store photos; only Longan Almond and Golden Mango had SG ingredient sections retrieved.
Jell-O Instant Pudding / gelatin desserts — Named in Singapore social posts as hard to find locally (one post notes Jell-O was found at Cold Storage); no SG pack ingredient section retrieved.
Magnolia / F&N Magnolia pudding cups — Chilled dessert cups sold in Singapore; no SG ingredient section retrieved in this pass.
Lao Ban-style soya beancurd (packet mixes) — Soya beancurd dessert mixes (e.g. Polleney soybean powder, Unisoy soya milk powder, RedMan instant jelly powder) are recipe components, not ready-to-eat custard/jelly; their own lists were not retrieved as a category row.
Grass jelly — other brands and drink formats — Grass jelly drinks and other brands' grass jelly cups were not inventoried in full; only Sen Soh cups had a retrieved list.
Konjac jelly — other Tarami flavours and brands — Other Tarami flavours (e.g. grape, peach) and other konjac jelly brands sold at Donki / Meidi-Ya / Mustafa had no SG lists retrieved.
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 custard/jelly/pudding 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.

No per-100 g/ml nutrition panel was verified in this pass for any panelled product, so there is no sortable nutrition table on this page yet. The ingredient panels are the comparison for this pass; figures are not estimated here.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g/ml nutrition panel was verified in this pass for any of the 9 panelled products (Marigold Milk Pudding Custard Caramel, Marigold Fruit Cup Jelly Longan Almond and Golden Mango, Tarami Dosari Mandarin Orange, Tarami Konjac Mango and Muscat, Sen Soh Grass Jelly, RedMan Super Instant Custard Powder and RedMan Custard Powder). Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here.

How to read a custard, jelly or pudding label — the jargon, in plain English

Dextrine / dextrin: A starch broken down into shorter chains, used as a thickener and to give body. In the Marigold pudding it sits between milk solid and glucose in the list.
Konjac: A gelling agent from the konjac root (glucomannan). Konjac jelly is firm and chewy and sets without gelatin — it is not the same as a gelatin jelly or an agar jelly.
Agar: A gelling agent from seaweed. The Tarami Dosari jelly uses agar plus a polysaccharide thickener to set.
Mesona chinensis: The plant (grass jelly herb, xiancao) boiled to make grass jelly. The FairPrice listing spells it "Mesona Chinesis" — quoted as printed.
Custard powder vs instant custard powder: Custard powder is the dry starch-based mix; "instant" versions add milk powder and sugar so they only need water. Check which one you hold — the lists differ.
Aspartame / acesulfame-K / sucralose: Non-nutritive sweeteners. Aspartame is a source of phenylalanine, which matters for people with phenylketonuria (PKU). Their presence means a product can be sweetened even where sugar is also listed.
Permitted stabiliser / permitted colouring: Singapore labelling wording for additives approved for use. The exact additive is not always named on the retailer listing — the pack may name it.

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 sections (Marigold Milk Pudding Custard Caramel; Marigold Fruit Cup Jelly Longan Almond and Golden Mango; Tarami Dosari Mandarin Orange Jelly; Tarami Delicious Konjac Jelly Mango and Muscat; Sen Soh Grass Jelly Cups; RedMan Super Instant Custard Powder; RedMan Custard Powder). Marigold range context from Marigold Singapore / Marigold Desserts Malaysia social posts (flavours only, no lists taken from them). 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.