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Dried fruit: what's actually in it?

Dried fruit looks like one simple thing — fruit, dried — but the shelf splits three ways. Unsweetened dried fruit is just the fruit, sometimes with a preservative such as sulphur dioxide (E220) or potassium sorbate (E202) to keep its colour or stop mould. Sweetened dried fruit adds sugar (or another sweetener) — most dried cranberries are sweetened, because unsweetened cranberries are very tart, and most dried mango is sweetened too. And mixed dried fruit (including nut-and-fruit mixes) is a blend whose list is the sum of its parts, plus any preservative. The front of the pack rarely makes the distinction clear; the ingredient list does.

This page covers dried fruit sold in Singapore — raisins, sultanas, prunes, dried cranberries, dried apricots, dried mango, dates, figs and mixed dried fruit. Sweetened and unsweetened variants are separate rows. This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick, and it shows no prices.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• The only single-ingredient products panelled here are the plain raisins. Sun-Maid Natural California Raisins and Sun-Maid Organic Raisins both list just "Raisins" on their Singapore Shopee listings (allergy note: sulfites).
• Golden raisins are not the same as natural raisins. Sun-Maid California Golden Raisins list sulphur dioxide as a preservative — that is what keeps them golden instead of brown. The list is from a US source, flagged below; the Singapore pack still needs a photo.
• Prunes split on preservative. Sunsweet Amaz!n Pitted Prunes list pitted prunes plus potassium sorbate (preservative). Sunsweet D'Noir Prunes are sold in Singapore and described as having no preservatives, but no verbatim D'Noir ingredient list was retrieved, so D'Noir stays seen-but-not-verified — do not assume it shares the Amaz!n list.
• Dried cranberries are almost always sweetened. Ocean Spray Craisins Original list cranberry, sugar and sunflower oil. The Reduced Sugar version swaps in soluble corn fibre, glycerin and sucralose (E955) alongside sugar. Tong Garden Sun Gift Dried Cranberries (Singapore brand) list dried cranberries, sugar, elderberry juice concentrate and sunflower oil — from a secondary roundup, flagged below.
• The one dried apricot panelled here needs no sulphur dioxide. Sun Q Organic Soft Dried Turkish Apricots (sold in Singapore, Open Food Facts Singapore) list only organic dried apricots and water. Most other dried apricots on the market list sulphur dioxide — Sun-Maid Mediterranean Apricots do — but no verbatim Singapore-pack list was retrieved for them, so they are not panelled as Singapore products.
• The mixed-fruit row is the only FairPrice ingredient-section panel on this page. Camel Natural Wholesome Nut Mix — Power Delight lists cashews, almonds, mulberries, raisins, cranberries and preservative (E220). It is a nut-and-fruit mix, not a plain dried-fruit pack — panelled as such.
• Most of the Singapore dried-fruit shelf is seen-but-not-verified. Cold Storage lists Sunsweet prunes, Sun-Maid raisins, Meadows cranberries and figs, 7D dried mango, Seeberger prunes/cranberries/blue raisins, Ligo golden raisins and Meadows sultanas — but Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so none of those is panelled from Cold Storage. The same applies to the FairPrice Green Earth range (Medjool dates, black dates, black/green raisins, natural dried cranberry, sun-dried figs), GardenScent, Foodsterr, RedMan, Heritage, Laobanniang and SnackFirst dates: inventoried, no verbatim list retrieved. They need Singapore pack photos.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 9 products. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below — it is long, because Cold Storage publishes no ingredient lists and FairPrice publishes them only sometimes. Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Source-strength key, used on every card: SG retailer ingredient section (strongest — FairPrice ingredient section or a Singapore Shopee ingredient field); Open Food Facts Singapore (secondary — community database, Singapore entry); US / non-SG list, flagged (the list is from another market and is not presented as the Singapore pack).

Raisins — unsweetened, and golden

Prunes

Dried cranberries — sweetened, and reduced-sugar

Dried apricots

Mixed dried fruit (and nuts)

Cold Storage — the dried-fruit shelf (inventory, 5–6 Nov 2026)

Cold Storage Singapore lists a wide dried-fruit range, and it confirms Singapore sale for several panelled products above (Sunsweet Pitted Prunes 200g/340g; Sunmaid Natural Raisins 12S 14.1G). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page — only size, storage, country and item code — so this section is an inventory, not panels. Nothing below is panelled from Cold Storage's site.

• Raisins / sultanas: Sunmaid Natural Raisins 12S 14.1G (USA); Ligo Raisins Golden 6S × 30g; Seeberger Blue Raisins 200g; Meadows Sultana Raisins 500g.
• Prunes: Sunsweet Pitted Prunes Bag 200g and 340g (USA); Sunsweet Probiotic Plus Prunes 140g; Seeberger Prunes Pitted 200g.
• Cranberries: Meadows Dried Cranberries 170g; Seeberger Soft Cranberries 125g; Cold Storage Dried Whole Cranberry 100g; Cold Storage Cranberries & Gold Raisin 100g; Cold Storage Cranberry & Apple Mix 100g.
• Figs: Meadows Dried Figs 200g.
• Mango: 7D Dried Mangoes 100g and 200g (Philippines); 7D Dried Mango Dark Chocolate Enrobe 80g; Bear Fruit Rolls Mango 5 × 20g.
• Freeze-dried (not the same as dried fruit — listed here so they are not mistaken for missing dried rows): DJ&A Freeze Dried Mango Fruit Snacks 35g; DJ&A Freeze Dried Peach Lychee & Strawberry Fruit Snacks 35g; Meadows Freeze Dried Strawberry 12g.

Cold Storage "You may also like" listings also surfaced Olly's Olives and other snack items; only dried-fruit items are inventoried above.

FairPrice — the dried-fruit shelf (inventory, 5–6 Nov 2026)

FairPrice's Dried Fruits & Nuts category and its similar-products listings confirm a large Singapore dried-fruit shelf. Only the Camel Power Delight row above was panelled from a FairPrice ingredient section in this pass; the rest below were inventoried without a retrieved verbatim list.

• Green Earth (FairPrice house-adjacent organic range): Medjool Dates 200g; Black Dates 200g; Red Dates 200g; Candied Dates; Natural Dried Cranberry 250g; Cranberry 1000g; Organic Black Raisin; Organic Green Raisin; Organic Blackcurrant; Sun Dried Figs; Seedless Plum.
• Other FairPrice dried fruit: Sun-Maid Natural California Raisins — Mini Pack 12 × 14g and Tub 500g; GardenScent Dried Cranberries 200g; Foodsterr Organic Canadian Dried Cranberries and Foodsterr USA Ruby Dried Cranberries 250g; RedMan Dried Cranberry — Sliced; RedMan Pitted Dates 250g; RedMan Dried Dates Aseel — Pitted; RedMan Dried Pitted Dates — Deglet Noor 1kg; Heritage Black Raisins 500g; FairPrice Walnuts With Dried Cranberries 100g; FairPrice Natural Fruits & Nuts.
• Laobanniang (FairPrice): Dried Mango 300g; Dried Guava 300g; Dried Black Apricot 500g; Dried Blueberries 500g; Dried Sweetened Cranberries 500g; Black Prunes Stripes 300g; Taiwan Prunes 300g.
• Tong Garden (FairPrice): Nutrione Baked Nuts & Dried Fruit — Mango Tango 7 × 28g; Crunchy Bite — Almonds Mixed Cranberries; plus the Sun Gift range on Shopee Singapore (see above).
• Dates (FairPrice, SnackFirst): SnackFirst Honey Red Dates (Tunisia Deglet Nour Dates) 200g; SnackFirst Hari Raya Specials — Jewel Medjool Dates 150g and Gem Ajwa Dates.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Sunsweet D'Noir Prunes (255g, Shopee Singapore) — sold in Singapore; the listing says "Made from 100% pitted California prunes (dried plums), with no added sugar, preservatives or artificial flavours", but that is a marketing claim, not a verbatim ingredient list, and no verbatim D'Noir list was retrieved. An Open Food Facts entry for Organic D'Noir Prunes lists only "Organic pitted California prunes (dried plums)", which supports the no-preservative claim but is a US entry for the organic variant, not a Singapore D'Noir list. Needs a Singapore pack photo.
• Sunsweet Dried Mango — US lists agree on "Dried Mango, Sugar, Citric Acid, Sodium Metabisulfite (to Preserve Color)" (some omit citric acid), but no Singapore sale was confirmed in this pass and no Singapore pack list was retrieved. Do not panel the US list as a Singapore product. Needs a Singapore sale + pack check.
• Sun-Maid Mediterranean Apricots — US lists give "Dried Apricots, Sulfur Dioxide (Sulfites) Added as A Preservative" (one variant adds potassium sorbate). No Singapore sale was confirmed in this pass. Needs a Singapore sale + pack check. Same for Sun-Maid Dried Golden Figs ("Dried Figs, Potassium Sorbate, Sulfur Dioxide for freshness", US lists) and Sun-Maid Deglet Noor Dried Diced Dates ("Deglet Noor Dates, Dextrose", US lists) — no Singapore sale confirmed for either in this pass.
• Sun-Maid Vanilla Yogurt Covered Raisins / Milk Chocolate Raisins — coated raisins, not plain dried fruit; US lists are long (yogurt coating with sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, milk powder; chocolate coating with sugar, cocoa butter). No Singapore sale confirmed in this pass; if sold here they belong as coated-raisin rows, not plain-raisin rows.
• Green Earth range (FairPrice) — Medjool Dates, Black Dates, Red Dates, Candied Dates, Natural Dried Cranberry, Organic Black Raisin, Organic Green Raisin, Organic Blackcurrant, Sun Dried Figs: inventoried at FairPrice, no ingredient section retrieved for any of them. The candied dates in particular must not be assumed unsweetened.
• Meadows Dried Cranberries 170g and Meadows Dried Figs 200g (Cold Storage); Seeberger Prunes Pitted 200g, Seeberger Soft Cranberries 125g, Seeberger Blue Raisins 200g (Cold Storage) — inventoried, no ingredient list retrieved. Seeberger is a German brand sold as a parallel import; its lists must come from a Singapore pack, not a German listing.
• 7D Dried Mangoes 100g/200g (Cold Storage, Philippines) and 7D Dried Mango Dark Chocolate Enrobe 80g — inventoried, no ingredient list retrieved. Dried mango is usually sweetened; do not assume this one is or is not until the pack is read.
• Cold Storage house-brand dried fruit: Dried Whole Cranberry 100g, Cranberries & Gold Raisin 100g, Cranberry & Apple Mix 100g — inventoried, no ingredient list retrieved (Cold Storage publishes none).
• Meadows Sultana Raisins 500g; Ligo Raisins Golden 6S × 30g (Cold Storage) — inventoried, no ingredient list retrieved. Sultanas and golden raisins are separate rows from natural raisins and must not be merged into the Sun-Maid rows.
• Sunsweet Probiotic Plus Prunes 140g (Cold Storage) — a probiotic variant ("Pitted Prunes, Natural Flavor, Bacillus Coagulans GBI-30 6086, Potassium Sorbate" on a US listing). No Singapore pack list retrieved; do not merge it into the Amaz!n row.
• Sunsweet Amaz!n Prunes — Cherry Essence variant — US list adds "Natural and Artificial Sweet Cherry Flavor" to the Amaz!n base. No Singapore sale confirmed in this pass.
• Tong Garden Sun Gift — other flavours (Shopee Singapore): Dried Guava 150g, Dried Mango 130g, Dried Pitted Prunes 120g, Dried Jumbo Raisins Medley 120g — sold on Shopee Singapore, no ingredient lists retrieved for any of them. Only the cranberries are panelled (flagged, secondary source).
• Dates at FairPrice / Shopee Singapore: Green Earth Medjool/Black/Red/Candied Dates, RedMan Pitted/Deglet Noor/Aseel dates, SnackFirst Honey Red Dates and Jewel Medjool/Gem Ajwa dates, Kirkland Signature × Sunsweet Whole Dried Plums (Shopee Singapore parallel import, "Pitted Prunes" per its listing) — inventoried, no verbatim Singapore-pack list retrieved for any of them. Dates are the thinnest-covered fruit on this page: no date product is panelled.
• GardenScent Dried Cranberries 200g; Foodsterr Organic Canadian Dried Cranberries and USA Ruby Dried Cranberries; RedMan Dried Cranberry — Sliced; Heritage Black Raisins 500g; Laobanniang Dried Mango/Guava/Black Apricot/Blueberries/Sweetened Cranberries/Black Prunes/Taiwan Prunes — all inventoried at FairPrice, no verbatim list retrieved for any of them.
• Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart and Lazada Singapore — not inventoried in this pass (see Sources and method). Their dried-fruit shelves, including parallel imports at Donki/Meidi-Ya/Le Petit Depot/Mustafa, remain open gaps. Freeze-dried fruit snacks (DJ&A, Meadows freeze-dried) are a different product from dried fruit and are inventoried only, not panelled here.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g, unless the Basis column says otherwise. Sugars in unsweetened dried fruit are the fruit's own sugars, not added sugar — the ingredient panels show which products add sugar and which do not. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these dried-fruit listings in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned. Open Food Facts Nutri-Scores (A–E) are not quoted here either — they are a different scheme and are not presented as a Singapore grade.

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 in the research notes. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, cane sugar, dextrose) versus naturally occurring sugars (the fruit's own 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. Per-serving figures are quoted as printed and are never converted to per-100g.

Observed numbers, no verdict: Sun-Maid Mini Pack raisins list 71.4 g sugars per 100 g (all of it the fruit's own sugar — the ingredient list is just "Raisins"), Sun Q apricots list 45.7 g sugars per 100 g, and Sunsweet Amaz!n prunes list 37.5 g sugars per 100 g on the Open Food Facts Canada entry used here. The two Craisins rows are per 40 g serving, not per 100 g, so they are not directly comparable with the per-100 g rows: Original lists 29 g sugars per 40 g serving, Reduced Sugar lists 14 g per 40 g serving. Sodium is 19.6 mg per 100 g for the raisins, 25.7 mg per 100 g for the apricots, and 0 mg per 100 g for the prunes on the entry used. No per-100 g sugar figure was verified in this pass for the Camel Power Delight mix or the Tong Garden cranberries, so this section does not compare mixed-fruit or Singapore-brand cranberry sugars with the panelled rows.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Sun-Maid Natural California Raisins 284g/500g as separate pack sizes (a separate Open Food Facts 500g entry gives 325 kcal and 65 g sugars per 100 g, which disagrees with the 12 × 14g Singapore entry's 312 kcal and 71.4 g — neither figure is copied onto the other size), Sun-Maid Organic Raisins, Sun-Maid California Golden Raisins, Camel Power Delight, Tong Garden Sun Gift Dried Cranberries, and all seen-but-not-verified products above. For Sunsweet prunes, other Open Food Facts entries disagree with the tabled one (sugars 30 g, 35 g and 38.1 g per 100 g on D'Noir, Ones and Italian entries; energy 229–250 kcal), so the tabled 37.5 g is entry-specific, not a settled pack figure. For Sun-Maid raisins, the Singapore Open Food Facts entry also carries an added-sugars figure of 41.4 g per 100 g, which conflicts with its own one-ingredient list and with other Open Food Facts raisin entries giving 0 g added sugars — that figure is not used here. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here.

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

Sulphur dioxide / E220 (and sodium metabisulfite / E223)

Preservatives that keep dried fruit its original colour (golden raisins, apricots) and stop mould. They are also allergens: packs that use them must declare sulphites. "Contains sulfites" on a pack does not by itself prove sulphur dioxide is a listed ingredient — check whether it appears in the ingredient list or only as an allergy note.

Potassium sorbate / E202

A preservative used in prunes (and some figs) to stop mould and yeast. It is not a sweetener and not a colouring.

Sucralose / E955, glycerin / E422, soluble corn fibre

In reduced-sugar dried cranberries: sucralose is a sweetener, glycerin is a humectant (keeps the fruit soft and moist), soluble corn fibre bulks the fruit out so less sugar is needed for the same weight. "Reduced sugar" does not mean "no sugar" — sugar is still listed.

Sunflower oil

Added to sweetened dried cranberries (and some other dried fruit) in a small amount to stop the pieces sticking together. It is a processing/coating aid, not a flavouring.

"No added sugar" vs "no sugar"

Dried fruit naturally contains a lot of sugar from the fruit itself — raisins list over 70 g sugars per 100 g with no sugar added. "No added sugar" means none was added during manufacture; it does not mean the product is low in sugar.

Dextrose

A form of glucose, used as an anti-caking coating on diced dates (Sun-Maid Deglet Noor diced dates, US list). It is an added sugar, even though it is there to stop sticking rather than to sweeten.

Sultanas vs raisins vs golden raisins

All are dried grapes, but from different grapes and processes: natural raisins are dark and sun-dried, golden raisins are treated with sulphur dioxide to stay golden, and sultanas are usually from a different grape and are lighter and smaller. They are separate rows on this page, not interchangeable.

Freeze-dried vs dried

Freeze-dried fruit (DJ&A, Meadows freeze-dried) is frozen and vacuum-dried, so it is crisp and light; dried fruit is air- or sun-dried and chewy. They are different products with different lists and are not merged here.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Unsweetened, sweetened and mixed dried fruit 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. No date product is panelled at all; the Green Earth, Meadows, Seeberger, 7D, GardenScent, Foodsterr, RedMan, Heritage, Laobanniang and Cold Storage house-brand ranges listed above are inventoried but unverified, for the reasons given, not hidden. Giant, Sheng Siong, Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart and Lazada were not inventoried in this pass.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice ingredient section (Camel Power Delight, via omni.fairprice.com.sg); FairPrice category and similar-products listings (Dried Fruits & Nuts category; Green Earth, Laobanniang, Tong Garden, GardenScent, Foodsterr, RedMan, Heritage, SnackFirst inventory); Cold Storage Singapore listings (Sunsweet prunes, Sun-Maid raisins, Meadows, 7D, Seeberger, Ligo, Cold Storage house-brand inventory — no ingredient sections published); Shopee Singapore ingredient fields and descriptions (Sun-Maid natural/organic raisins, Sun-Maid golden raisins sale, Sunsweet Amaz!n/D'Noir prunes, Ocean Spray Craisins Original/Reduced Sugar, Tong Garden Sun Gift range); Open Food Facts Singapore (Sun-Maid Raisins 12 × 14g nutrition; Sun Q apricots ingredients + nutrition); Open Food Facts US/Canada and US retailer label transcriptions, flagged as non-SG where used (Sun-Maid golden raisins, Sunsweet prunes corroboration, Craisins Reduced Sugar, Sun-Maid Mediterranean apricots/figs/dates); a Malaysia roundup for Tong Garden cranberries, flagged as secondary. 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. Browser search was rate-limited (429) during this pass, so two planned queries (Ocean Spray and Tong Garden ingredient searches) were completed later under different phrasings and several retailer category pages could not be re-opened; that is recorded in the research notes rather than worked around.