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Frozen bread and pastry: what's actually in it?

Frozen bread and pastry in Singapore is a thin, import-led shelf: French frozen croissants (Délifrance), gluten-free frozen croissants (Schär), foodservice mini croissants (Europastry), and Singapore-made frozen mantou (Oriental Fortune). Frozen paratha and roti prata belong to the naan-and-roti-prata category, and pizza bases to the pizza-bases category — both are noted here only so they are not mistaken for missing rows. The one FairPrice-panelled product here is the mantou.

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, allergens and additives.

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At a glance

ProductPack size (as printed)First ingredientCountry of manufacture (as printed)Added sugar?
Délifrance Frozen Croissant1,100 g (20 × 55 g)Wheat flourFranceYes — sugar
Schär Gluten Free Frozen Plain Croissant220 g (4 × 55 g)Certified gluten-free wheat starchGermany (retailer spec)Yes — dextrose, sugar
Europastry Mini Paris Croissant (frozen, unbaked)3.5 kg (140 × 25 g)Wheat flourSpainYes — sugar, dextrose
Oriental Fortune Frozen Mantou — Chocolate360 g (8 per pack)Wheat Flour (58%)not statedYes — sugar

Panelled with verbatim lists: 4 products. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below. No prices are shown: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Panelled — frozen croissants (flagged non-SG lists)

Délifrance Frozen Croissant, 20 × 55 g — French list, flagged

Pack size: 1,100 g (20 × 55 g) · Made in: France (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts (French entry)): Wheat flour, compound fat (vegetable oils and fats non-hydrogenated (palm, palm kernel, copra), water, concentrated butter, natural flavourings (milk), emulsifier E471), salt, acidity regulator (E330), colouring (natural carotenoids), water, sugar, yeast, wheat gluten, salt, eggs, natural flavouring (milk), colouring (natural carotenoids), flour treatment agent (E300), enzyme.

Flag: French Open Food Facts entry; the SG pack was not transcribed. The fat is a compound fat — palm, palm kernel and copra oils with concentrated butter inside it — not butter as the main fat. Délifrance is sold in Singapore through bakery/foodservice channels. Country of manufacture: France (manufacturing place, per OFF) Flag: French list, SG pack not transcribed Compound fat, not butter-first Allergens: eggs, gluten, milk, nuts, sesame, soy

Schär Gluten Free Frozen Plain Croissant — US/German lists, flagged

Pack size: 220 g (4 × 55 g) · Made in: Germany (retailer spec) (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts (US entry) + retailer specification (Metro, Finland)): Certified gluten-free wheat starch, water, vegetable palm fat, egg, chicory fiber, psyllium seed husk (vegetable fiber), rape seed oil, dextrose, rice flour, egg whites, skim milk, glucono delta-lactone, baking soda, yeast, xanthan gum, sugar, salt, citric acid, natural butter flavor.

Flag: Open Food Facts US entry and a Finnish retailer specification; SG retail sale not verified. Gluten-free wheat starch leads; the fat is vegetable palm fat and the butter is only a flavouring. May also contain hazelnuts, mustard and soy. Country of manufacture: Germany (country of manufacture, per retailer spec) Flag: non-SG lists, SG sale not verified Gluten-free No butter — palm fat + butter flavour

Europastry Mini Paris Croissant, frozen unbaked (140 per case) — foodservice spec, flagged

Pack size: 3.5 kg (140 × 25 g) · Made in: Spain (as printed)

Ingredients (Erudus manufacturer specification (Europastry)): WHEAT flour, water, BUTTER (MILK) 21%, WHEAT gluten, sugar, yeast, salt, pasteurised liquid EGG, WHEAT fibre, flour treatment agent (E300), dextrose.

Flag: Erudus foodservice specification; not an SG retail pack. The only croissant here where butter is the main fat and its share is printed (21%). The shortest croissant list on the page — nine items. Country of manufacture: Spain (country of origin, per spec) Flag: foodservice spec, not an SG retail pack Butter 21% Allergens: wheat, milk, egg; may contain nuts

Panelled — frozen mantou (FairPrice)

Oriental Fortune Frozen Mantou — Chocolate, 360 g (8 per pack)

Pack size: 360 g (8 per pack) · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice Singapore ingredient section): Wheat Flour (58%), Water, Sugar, Cocoa Powder, Palm Vegetable Fat, Yeast, Baking Powder (E500, E541), Dough Improver (E481, E482), Flavouring (E477), Permitted Colouring (E150).

The only FairPrice-panelled product in this category. Wheat flour is 58% of the product; cocoa powder is the flavouring (no chocolate listed). Palm vegetable fat is the fat. Nutrition is printed per 45 g serving only, so it sits in the per-serving table. Country of manufacture: not stated Via: FairPrice Per-serving nutrition only Allergens: wheat (implied)

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the sortable table are as sold, per 100 g / 100 ml. Click a column header to sort lowest-to-highest, click again for highest-to-lowest; "not stated" always sorts last, because a missing figure is not zero. Per-serving-only figures are in a separate table below and are never sorted against per-100 figures. No Nutri-Grade applies to these foods as non-drinks, except where a drink Nutri-Grade is officially printed — none is quoted or assigned here.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Where the source prints salt only, sodium is shown as salt ÷ 2.5 and flagged as derived. 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. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, glucose syrup, invert sugar 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 / 100 ml nutrition panel was verified in this pass for any panelled product in this category. The per-serving table below (where one exists) is all that was verified; the rest is in seen-but-not-verified (nutrition).

Per-serving figures only — quoted exactly as printed, not converted

ProductServing as printedEnergyProteinTotal fatSaturated fatCarbohydrateSugarsSodium (salt equiv.)
Oriental Fortune Frozen Mantou — Chocolate45 g (1 piece)125 kcal3 g0 gnot stated27 g4 g15 mg (salt 0.04 g)

These rows are per serving, not per 100 g / 100 ml — do not compare them with the table above.

Observed numbers, no verdict: One per-serving row only: a 45 g chocolate mantou lists 125 kcal, 0 g total fat as printed, 27 g carbohydrate, 4 g sugars and 15 mg sodium. No per-100 g comparison is possible within this page.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for any product in this category, and no nutrition panel at all was verified for the three panelled croissants. Their ingredient panels are unchanged.

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

Compound fat
A manufactured fat blending vegetable oils/fats (here palm, palm kernel, copra) with a smaller share of butter. It behaves like butter in pastry but is not butter.
Copra
Dried coconut kernel, the source of coconut oil. Listed as a component of Délifrance's compound fat.
Gluten-free wheat starch
Wheat starch with the gluten removed to below the gluten-free threshold. It is wheat-derived but labelled gluten-free; people with wheat allergy (as opposed to coeliac disease) should still check.
Flour treatment agent (E300)
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) used to strengthen dough. Not a preservative.
Dough improver (E481, E482)
Emulsifiers (sodium and calcium stearoyl lactylate) that improve dough handling and crumb softness.
E477
Propane-1,2-diol esters of fatty acids — an emulsifier used in the mantou as a flavouring carrier.
E150
Caramel colour, used in the chocolate mantou.

What this page is not

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: FairPrice Singapore ingredient section (Oriental Fortune Frozen Mantou — Chocolate, with per-serving nutrition); Open Food Facts French entry for Délifrance frozen croissants and US entry for Schär gluten-free frozen croissant; Erudus manufacturer specification for Europastry Mini Paris Croissant; Finnish retailer specification (Metro) for Schär (country of manufacture Germany). Gardenia FairPrice ingredient sections were read for scope only (fresh bread, not frozen). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page. Nutrition figures are quoted per serving exactly as printed and are not converted to per-100 figures; 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.