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Dried mushrooms and seaweed: what's actually in them?

Dried mushrooms and dried seaweed are single-ingredient products: the pack contains one dried food and nothing else. The differences are the species and the grade — "flower" shiitake (cracked cap, more expensive), tea flower, white flower, sliced, baby shiitake — and, for seaweed, whether it is wakame (soup seaweed), kombu/konbu (kelp for dashi), nori (laver sheets) or ao nori (powdered green laver). The one mixed product panelled here, Okisu Takikomi Gohan, is the exception: five dried vegetables plus glucose added to the carrot.

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, and flags added sugar and allergens.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Most products here are one ingredient. Dried shiitake is shiitake; dried wakame is wakame. No salt, sugar, oil or additives in any single-ingredient panel.
• "Flower" is a grade, not a species. White flower, tea flower and Japanese white flower mushrooms are all shiitake (Lentinula edodes) graded by the cracked pattern on the cap. The species is the same; the grade (and size) differs.
• Okisu is the mixed exception. Okisu Takikomi Gohan Assorted Japanese Dried Vegetables: burdock, carrot, enoki mushroom, shiitake mushroom, glucose — glucose is added to the carrot to prevent colour change and help rehydration (FairPrice). Origin Japan.
• Kirei wakame prints Japan as origin. Kirei Dry Cut Wakame Seaweed 18g: country/place of origin Japan. Riken Cut Wakame is the same product type from another Japanese brand.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 5 products. Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale.

Mixed dried vegetables

Dried seaweed

Dried mushrooms

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Sun Kee Dried White Flower Mushroom; Sun Kee Dried Tea Flower Mushroom — FairPrice lists both; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Pasar Dried China Mushroom — FairPrice lists it; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Prestigio Delights Dried Mushroom Sliced; Prestigio Delights White Shiitake Flower Mushroom (4–5cm) — FairPrice lists both; no ingredient section retrieved.
• AAA Premium Japanese White Flower Mushroom — FairPrice lists it; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Golden Swallow Premium Grade Dried Mushroom — FairPrice lists it; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Laobanniang Dried Shiitake Mushroom Slices 500g; Laobanniang Dried Monkey Head Mushroom; Laobanniang Dried Mouse Ear Black Fungus — FairPrice lists all three; no ingredient section retrieved. (Monkey head and mouse ear are fungi, not shiitake — separate products.)
• Green Earth Organic Baby Shitake [sic] Mushroom — FairPrice lists it; no ingredient section retrieved.
• CS Organic Natural Korean Mushroom — FairPrice lists it; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Riken Cut Wakame Seaweed 11g (Kirei) — FairPrice lists it; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Kirei Ao Nori Ko Fine Seaweed Powder Sprinkle Over Seasoning — powdered green laver (ao nori), a seasoning, not a soup seaweed; no ingredient section retrieved.
• Hamaotome Mutenka Hijiki Seaweed Large Portion Furikake; Hamaotome Miso Shiru No Gu Japanese Dried Miso Soup Contents — furikake seasoning and miso-soup contents (wakame, fu, negi); mixed/seasoned products, not plain dried seaweed — no ingredient section retrieved for either.
• Yamasa Konbu Kelp Concentrate/Dip Seasoning Sauce; Ebara Asazuke No Moto Konbu Dashi Kelp Pickle Base — kombu-based sauces, not dried kombu; out of scope for this page (sauces).
• Ivenet Sprinkling Recipe — Seafood / Seaweed Laver — baby-food seasonings containing dried seaweed (23–47%) among many ingredients; baby food, not plain dried seaweed — not panelled here.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

No per-100g or per-serving nutrition panel was retrieved for any dried mushroom or seaweed in this pass. FairPrice lists these dried goods without a nutrition section in the sources retrieved. No figures are borrowed from generic mushroom/seaweed data — the table is therefore empty by design, and the gap is recorded below.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Where a source printed salt only, the sodium figure is salt ÷ 2.5 and is flagged as computed.

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.

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. 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 Nutri-Grade applies to these foods as non-drinks, and none is quoted or assigned here.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): Okisu Takikomi Gohan; Kirei Dry Cut Wakame Seaweed; Akishima Wakame Seaweed; AAA Premium Shiitake Mushroom (Tea Flower); Green Earth Organic Shiitake Mushroom; and all products in seen-but-not-verified above. No nutrition panel was retrieved for any of these.

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

Shiitake (Lentinula edodes)

The main dried mushroom in Singapore. "Flower" grades (white flower, tea flower) describe the cracked pattern on the cap — a quality grade, not a different species.

Wakame

A brown seaweed (Undaria pinnatifida), sold dried and cut, mainly for soups (miso soup) and salads. Rehydrates in minutes.

Kombu / konbu

Kelp (Saccharina japonica), the seaweed used to make dashi stock. Sold as dried sheets or as seasoning sauces — the sauces are not panelled on this page.

Nori / ao nori

Nori is the laver seaweed pressed into sheets (sushi nori); ao nori is powdered green laver used as a seasoning sprinkle. Different products from wakame.

Takikomi gohan

Japanese "cooked-in" rice: rice cooked with seasoned ingredients mixed in. Okisu's dried-vegetable pack is a takikomi mix-in.

Single-ingredient product

A product whose pack contains one food and nothing else. No separate ingredient section is published for these dried goods, so the panel records the food itself and flags that — it is not an invented list.

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: FairPrice dried-food and dried-mushroom category listings (AAA, Sun Kee, Pasar, Prestigio, Green Earth, Laobanniang, Akishima, Kirei, Riken, Hamaotome, Yamasa — inventory); FairPrice ingredient section (Okisu Takikomi Gohan); FairPrice product page (Kirei Dry Cut Wakame Seaweed 18g, origin Japan). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page.