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Frozen spring rolls and samosas: what's actually in them?

A spring roll is pastry plus filling, and the filling is where the products diverge: Spring Home's prawn roll is 31% prawns, while its chicken roll is only 6% chicken and mostly cabbage. Samosas are a separate product — a potato/curry filling in a thicker pastry — and the FairPrice house-brand samosa and spring roll, the two most obvious products in the category, both sit in seen-but-not-verified because no ingredient section was retrieved for either. Spring roll pastry sheets (Spring Home TYJ) are wrappers, not filled rolls, and are filed separately below.

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

Prawn vs chicken is a filling-percentage story. Spring Home Prawn is 31% prawns; Spring Home Chicken is 6% chicken, with cabbage first. Same brand, same pastry idea, very different filling.
Every panelled roll lists added sugar and MSG. Sugar and monosodium glutamate appear in both Spring Home rolls; the nian gao roll adds brown sugar and sugar in its rice cake.
FairPrice house-brand Spring Roll and Samosa are unverified. Both are listed at FairPrice (500g, Halal) but no ingredient section was retrieved for either — pack check needed.
Pastry sheets are not rolls. Spring Home TYJ Spring Roll Pastry (19cm and 21.5cm) is the wrapper alone. It is listed in seen-but-not-verified as a wrapper, not panelled as a filled roll.

At a glance

Product	Pack size (as printed)	First ingredient	Country of manufacture (as printed)	Notes
Spring Home Spring Roll — Prawn	about 150 g (GrabMart SG listing)	Prawns (31%)	not stated	No preservatives (listing)
Spring Home Spring Roll — Chicken	not stated	Cabbage	not stated	Chicken only 6%
Spring Home Nian Gao Roll — Sweet Potato	not stated	Rice cake (48%)	not stated	Sweet, not savoury

Panelled with verbatim lists: 3 products. Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale.

Filled spring rolls

Spring Home Spring Roll — Prawn

Pack size: about 150 g (GrabMart SG listing) · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Prawns (31%), Spring Roll Pastry (Wheat Flour, Water, Coconut Oil and Salt), Water Chestnut, Spring Onion, Potato Starch, Sesame Oil, Sugar, Monosidum Glutamate [sic — as printed; monosodium glutamate], Salt and White Pepper.

Allergen advice on the listing: contains shellfish, wheat (cereal containing gluten), monosodium glutamate and sesame. The listing says it does not contain preservatives. "Monosidum Glutamate" is reproduced as printed on FairPrice — presumably a typo for monosodium glutamate, not silently corrected. Added sugar: sugar Allergen: shellfish (prawn), wheat, sesame, MSG

Spring Home Spring Roll — Chicken

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Cabbage, Spring Roll Pastry (Wheat, Water, Coconut Oil and Salt), Carrot, Chicken (6%), Palm Oil, Mushroom, Water, Sugar, Garlic, Monosodium Glutamate, Salt and White Pepper.

Cabbage first, chicken fourth at 6% — this is a vegetable roll with chicken, not a chicken roll. Allergen advice: contains wheat (cereals containing gluten) and monosodium glutamate. Added sugar: sugar Allergen: wheat, MSG

Sweet rolls in spring-roll pastry

Spring Home Nian Gao Roll — Sweet Potato

Pack size: not stated · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Rice Cake (48%) (Glutinous Rice Flour, Water, Sugar, Brown Sugar, Coconut Oil), Spring Roll Pastry (Wheat Flour, Water, Coconut Oil, Salt), Sweet Potato (20%).

A sweet roll: the rice cake (nian gao) is nearly half the product and contains both sugar and brown sugar. Contains wheat, gluten. Filed here because it is sold as a roll in spring-roll pastry, not as a savoury spring roll. Added sugar: sugar, brown sugar Allergen: wheat, gluten

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

FairPrice Spring Roll 500g (Halal); FairPrice Samosa 500g (Halal) — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient section retrieved for either. Pack check needed.
Uncle Lim's Choice Vegetable Spring Roll (S) 400g / (L) 600g — FairPrice lists both; no ingredient section retrieved.
Gim's Heritage Spring Roll 620g — FairPrice lists it; no ingredient section retrieved.
Royal Delights Vegetable Spring Roll 1440g; Royal Delights Curry Potato Samosa 1.2kg — FairPrice lists both; no ingredient section retrieved.
As-Sufi Exotic Traditional Snacks — Potato Samosa; As-Sufi Currypuff — Potatoes — FairPrice lists both; no ingredient section retrieved.
Ramly Potato Samosa 300g (Halal) — FairPrice lists it; no ingredient section retrieved.
CB Mini Vegetable Spring Roll (20pcs) — FairPrice lists it; no ingredient section retrieved.
DEEP Punjabi Samosa — FairPrice lists it; no ingredient section retrieved.
Spring Home TYJ Spring Roll Pastry (19cm) 550g / (21.5cm) — wrappers, not filled rolls; no ingredient section retrieved. Filed here as pastry sheets, not panelled as rolls.
Mr Popiah coloured spring roll pastry (green/yellow) and ready-to-eat wraps — sold at FairPrice, TikTok Shop and Shopee; no ingredient list retrieved.
Seafood Boy Frozen Crispy Ang Kar Prawn Roll (Hae Zhor) — a prawn roll in the same FairPrice local-delights listing; no ingredient section retrieved.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

No per-100g or per-serving nutrition panel was retrieved for any spring roll or samosa in this pass, including the three panelled Spring Home products. FairPrice publishes an ingredient section for Spring Home rolls but no nutrition section was retrieved.

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): Spring Home Spring Roll — Prawn; Spring Home Spring Roll — Chicken; Spring Home Nian Gao Roll — Sweet Potato; FairPrice Spring Roll; FairPrice Samosa; Uncle Lim's Choice Vegetable Spring Roll (S and L); Gim's Heritage Spring Roll; Royal Delights Vegetable Spring Roll; Royal Delights Curry Potato Samosa; As-Sufi Potato Samosa; Ramly Potato Samosa; CB Mini Vegetable Spring Roll; DEEP Punjabi Samosa. No nutrition panel was retrieved for any of these.

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

Spring roll pastry: The thin wheat-flour wrapper (wheat flour, water, coconut oil, salt in Spring Home's). The same wrapper is sold alone as TYJ pastry sheets and filled as a roll — the filling, not the wrapper, is what differs between products.
Nian gao: Glutinous rice cake, traditionally eaten at Lunar New Year. In the Spring Home roll it is the main filling (48%), sweetened with sugar and brown sugar.
Monosodium glutamate (MSG): A flavour enhancer (E621). Listed in both savoury Spring Home rolls; FairPrice's prawn-roll page spells it "Monosidum Glutamate", reproduced as printed.
Samosa vs spring roll: A samosa is a (usually triangular) pastry parcel with a spiced potato/vegetable or meat filling; a spring roll is a cylindrical roll in a thin wheat wrapper. Different pastry, different filling tradition — this page keeps them in separate groups.

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 local-delights category page (full listing as crawled Nov 2026); FairPrice ingredient sections for Spring Home Spring Roll — Prawn, Spring Home Spring Roll — Chicken and Spring Home Nian Gao Roll — Sweet Potato. Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page.