Household Ingredients Compared › Dried Pasta Shapes (Singapore)
Plain dried pasta is the simplest product in this whole batch: durum wheat semolina, sometimes with water. The shape does not change the recipe — Barilla fusilli and San Remo penne list the same single ingredient — so the real differences on this page are the exceptions: Barilla's 5 Cereali fusilli (five flours, not one) and the US-market enriched Barilla penne (semolina plus added vitamins), which is a different market's product and is not presented as the Singapore pack.
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.
| Product | Pack size (as printed) | First ingredient | Country of manufacture (as printed) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barilla Italian Pasta — Fusilli 500g | 500 g | Durum wheat semolina | Italy (retailer: Cold Storage SG) | Semolina + water |
| San Remo Pasta — Penne 500g | 500 g | Durum wheat semolina | Australia (FairPrice “country/place of origin”) | Single ingredient |
| Barilla Fusilli 5 Cereali 400g | 400 g | Durum wheat semolina (80%) | not stated | Five flours; Italian listing |
Panelled with verbatim lists: 3 products. Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale.
Pack size: 500 g · Made in: Italy (retailer: Cold Storage SG) (as printed)
Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section + nutrition section): Durum Wheat Semolina, Water.
Two ingredients. "Made with 100% high quality durum wheat semolina" (FairPrice marketing). Allergen: wheat (gluten) Country of manufacture: not stated
Pack size: 500 g · Made in: Australia (FairPrice “country/place of origin”) (as printed)
Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section + nutrition section (per serving)): Durum Wheat Semolina. May contain traces of egg and soya.
One ingredient. No artificial colourings, flavourings or preservatives (FairPrice). Country/place of origin as printed on FairPrice: Australia. Allergen: wheat (gluten); may contain egg, soya Country of manufacture: Australia (as printed)
Pack size: 400 g · Made in: not stated (as printed)
Ingredients (Open Food Facts, Italian listing (secondary)): Durum wheat semolina 80%, emmer flour 8% (wheat), barley flour 8%, maize flour 3%, rye flour 1%.
Flag: this is an Italian-market listing on Open Food Facts, not a verified Singapore pack. It is included because the 5 Cereali range is sold in Singapore, but the SG pack must be verified before publish. Five flours, higher fibre (6.8 g per 100g) than plain fusilli (3 g). Allergen: wheat (gluten), barley, rye Country of manufacture: not stated
All figures are per 100g, as sold (dried, uncooked). Plain pasta rows are near-identical; the multigrain row is the one that moves (more fibre, slightly less carbohydrate).
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.
| Product | Basis | Energy | Protein | Total fat | Saturated fat | Carbohydrate | Sugars | Sodium (salt equiv.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barilla Italian Pasta — Fusilli | Per 100g, as sold | 363 kcal (1,521 kJ) | 12.5 g | 2 g | 0.5 g | 71.2 g | 3.5 g | 5 mg (salt 0.01 g) |
| Barilla Fusilli 5 Cereali | Per 100g, as sold | 352 kcal (1,489 kJ) | 12.8 g | 2.2 g | 0.5 g | 67.1 g | 3 g | 3 mg (salt 0.01 g) — sodium computed from printed salt 0.007 g |
Observed numbers, no verdict: Energy is 363 kcal (fusilli, FairPrice) against 352 kcal (5 Cereali, OFF). Fibre, where stated, is 3 g (fusilli) against 6.8 g (5 Cereali) per 100g. Sodium is 5 mg and 3 mg per 100g respectively (salt about 0.01 g in both). Sugars are total sugars as printed: 3.5 g and 3 g.
Conflicts flagged, not silently resolved: Barilla fusilli energy: FairPrice prints 1,521 kJ per 100g and no kcal figure; the table's 363 kcal is the direct conversion of 1,521 kJ. An Open Food Facts Collezione fusilli entry gives 359 kcal for the same 1,521 kJ, and other OFF fusilli entries give 1,489 kJ / 352 kcal — small variant/market differences. Verify on the SG pack.
These products print nutrition per serving only. The figures are quoted exactly as printed, with the serving size, and are flagged "per serving, not per 100g" — never converted by guessing.
| Product | Basis | Energy | Protein | Total fat | Saturated fat | Carbohydrate | Sugars | Sodium (salt equiv.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Remo Pasta — Penne | Per serving (125g), as sold | 457 kcal (1,910 kJ) | 15 g | 2.5 g | not stated | 90 g | not stated | 38 mg (salt 0.10 g) |
Seen but not verified (nutrition): Barilla Penne (SG import); San Remo Small Shell No 28; San Remo Fettucine Plain No 12; De Cecco, Agnesi, Colavita, Divella and other Italian brands; San Remo Gluten Free and Pulse Pasta shapes. No nutrition panel was retrieved for any of these.
Checked 12 November 2026 from: FairPrice ingredient and nutrition sections (Barilla Fusilli — product page; San Remo Penne — product page, per-125g-serving nutrition); Open Food Facts (Barilla Fusilli 5 Cereali, Italian listing; Barilla US enriched penne, deliberately not panelled); FairPrice similar-products listings (San Remo Small Shell, Fettucine). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page.