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Fresh pork: what's actually in it?

Fresh pork sold in Singapore supermarkets is a single-ingredient product: pork. There is no ingredient list to compare, because there is nothing added. What differs between packs is the cut (belly, loin, hind lean, chop, spare ribs, shoulder, mince) and the origin. FairPrice is the only Singapore supermarket retailer that offers fresh Malaysia pork: live pigs arrive from Malaysia by sea, are butchered and packed in Singapore, and reach the chiller the same day. This page records cut and origin as printed, and states plainly where there is no additive list because the product is a single ingredient. Marinated pork, frozen pork and processed pork (ham, bacon, sausages) are separate categories.

This page does not give a health score or a “best” pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed and flags what is in it.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Every pack on this page is one ingredient: pork. If a fresh pork pack listed anything else, that would be the story — none of the packs inventoried here does.
• FairPrice fresh pork is Malaysian, butchered in Singapore. FairPrice states its pork is live from Malaysia, butchered in Singapore, delivered fresh daily; its supplier OJJ Foods (a FairPrice Group subsidiary) imports about 3,000 live pigs a week from Malaysia. The pigs are crossbred, grain-fed for 180 days, raised without antibiotics or growth promoters (per FairPrice Group via Straits Times).
• FairPrice Fresh Pork Counters offer 20 different cuts, and butchers will dice, chop, mince or butterfly a cut to order. The packaged range on this page is the pre-packed subset of those cuts.
• Belly is the fattiest cut on this page, hind lean the leanest — by cut, not by formulation. Both are still just pork.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 8 products. Seen but not verified: 5 products (see list below). No prices are shown: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only, and gives no health score, ranking or “best” pick.

Scope note: fresh pork has no ingredient list, because it is a single ingredient. The panelled table therefore records cut and origin as printed, and each card states plainly that there is no additive list. Do not read the absence of a list as a missing list — it is the correct statement for this product.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Other FairPrice Fresh Pork Counter cuts (muscle, pearl soft bone, sweet and sour, tail, bone-in loin, sliced loin, sliced loin tip, sliced collar, pork rack chop, pork finger ribs) — sold loose at the counter, not as pre-packed products with a pack-level origin statement; same single-ingredient position, listed here rather than panelled.
• PorKee frozen pork range (Brazilian pork: minced pork, sliced lean pork, shoulder butt, thick-sliced pork belly, cubed pork belly, pork belly sukiyaki, collar shabu-shabu) — frozen, not fresh; origin Brazil as printed in coverage. Out of scope for this page.
• Iberico pork, Ramos pork, chef's pork — premium fresh/frozen pork seen at FairPrice; no pack-level origin or cut list verified in this pass.
• Fresh pork at Cold Storage, Giant, Sheng Siong and other chains — not inventoried at pack level in this pass; FairPrice is the only retailer documented here as offering fresh Malaysia pork, and other chains' fresh pork origins were not verified.
• Marinated pork, frozen pork, ham, bacon, sausages and other processed pork — separate categories, out of scope here.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g unless a separate per-serving table says otherwise. Sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars separately. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these listings in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned.

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: Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as “added sugar”. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, glucose syrup, invert sugar syrup) versus naturally occurring sugars (lactose in milk/cream).

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 100 g, as sold

Click a column header to sort. Rows marked “not stated” always sort last — a dash is missing data, not zero. Salt equivalent = sodium × 2.5, shown in brackets.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for any fresh pork cut on this page. FairPrice does not publish a nutrition panel for its fresh pork packs in the listings retrieved, and no per-100 g panel was taken from a generic database — generic pork nutrition would describe a different cut or fat trim, not the pack on the shelf. The nutrition figures for fresh pork therefore remain unverified until an SG pack panel is photographed. What can be said without a panel: the product is a single ingredient (pork), with no added sugar, no added salt and no additives printed on any pack inventoried here; the nutritional difference between rows on this page is the cut and its fat (belly vs loin vs hind lean), not a formulation difference.

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

Belly

The fattiest fresh pork cut, with layers of fat and lean. Used for roast pork (sio bak) and braised dishes.

Loin / boneless loin

A lean, fine-textured cut along the back. Used for pork chops, tonkatsu and stir-fry slices.

Hind lean

Lean meat from the hind leg. Firm texture, best sliced thin for stir-fries and pan-frying.

Spare ribs

Ribs from the belly side, with bone. Used in soups and braised dishes.

Shoulder butt

Meat from the shoulder, with more fat and connective tissue than loin. Good for slow cooking.

Hind hock

The lower hind leg, bony and gelatinous. A slow-cooking cut.

Live from Malaysia, butchered in Singapore

FairPrice's fresh-pork supply chain: live pigs imported from Malaysia by sea, butchered and packed in Singapore, delivered to stores the same day. It is a supply-chain statement, not an ingredient.

Single ingredient

The whole product is pork. There is no ingredient list to compare, because nothing has been added — the comparison on this page is cut and origin.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not a “best” pick. The products 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. Stock and formulations change, so no page claims permanent 100% completeness.

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: FairPrice Singapore product listing (Pasar Fresh Malaysia Pork Belly, origin Malaysia, with cut guide for boneless loin, minced lean and bone-in pork chop); FairPrice Instagram/Facebook Pork Cut Spotlight 29 Oct–11 Nov 2026 (Hind Lean, Boneless Loin); FairPrice Group coverage (SuperAdrianMe, NickBlitzz, ieatishootipost, Straits Times) on the 35 FairPrice Fresh Pork Counters, 20 cuts, OJJ Foods supply, live Malaysian pigs butchered in Singapore, PorKee frozen Brazilian range, Iberico/Ramos/chef's pork. Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so its shelf could not be panelled from its site. Nutrition section added 12 November 2026: no per-100 g panel was verified for any cut, and none is borrowed from a generic database; the section states this plainly rather than presenting unverified numbers. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.