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Mineral and Drinking Water: what's actually in it?

This page is about still water: natural mineral water, spring water, purified drinking water and distilled water, sold in Singapore. Sparkling water, soda water, tonic water and flavoured water are on the sparkling and flavoured water page, not here — Evian Sparkling appears below only because its composition is the same source water with carbon dioxide added, and it is flagged as sparkling. The honest fact about this shelf is that most still waters have a one-ingredient list — water — and the difference between them is the source and the mineral composition printed on the label, not a recipe. Where a brand prints its mineral composition (calcium, magnesium, sodium, bicarbonates per litre), that composition is quoted as printed; it is not an ingredient list.

This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed and flags what to notice.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Still water is a one-ingredient product. Every panelled list here is "natural mineral water" or "water" — the comparison is the source and the mineral composition, not the recipe.
Evian prints its mineral composition. Per litre: calcium 80 mg, magnesium 26 mg, sodium 6.5 mg, potassium 1 mg, silica 15 mg, bicarbonates 360 mg, sulphates 14 mg, chlorides 10 mg, nitrates 3.8 mg; dry residue at 180°C: 345 mg/L. Source: Cachat Spring, France.
Most still-water brands had no retrievable ingredient section. Ice Mountain, Dasani, FairPrice house-brand waters, Volvic, Fiji, Spritzer, San Benedetto, Aqua and Smartwater were inventoried at FairPrice but no verbatim SG ingredient or composition section was retrieved for any of them in this pass — they stay seen-but-not-verified. That is the main gap on this page, and it needs pack photos, not more searching.
Sparkling is out of scope here. Perrier, San Pellegrino sparkling and Ice Mountain sparkling cans are covered on the sparkling and flavoured water page; only Evian Sparkling is cross-listed here, flagged as sparkling.
No Nutri-Grade applies. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any still-water listing in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned. Water is not a graded drink category in the same way, and this page does not invent one.

At a glance

Product	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)	Group	First ingredient	Flag to notice
Evian Natural Mineral Water	not stated	France	Natural mineral water, still	Natural mineral water	Source: Cachat Spring, France
Evian Sparkling Carbonated Natural Mineral Water	not stated	France	Natural mineral water, sparkling	Carbonated natural mineral water	Flagged sparkling — see sparkling page
Perrier Sparkling Natural Mineral Water (plain)	not stated	not stated	Natural mineral water, sparkling	Mineral water (non-SG list)	Flagged non-SG list — verify SG pack

Panelled with verbatim lists: 3 products. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below. No prices are shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Evian Natural Mineral Water

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

Ingredients (Open Food Facts (secondary) and retailer listings, corroborated across sources): Natural Mineral Water. Composition per litre as printed: Calcium 80 mg, Magnesium 26 mg, Sodium 6.5 mg, Potassium 1 mg, Silica 15 mg, Bicarbonates 360 mg, Sulphates 14 mg, Chlorides 10 mg, Nitrates 3.8 mg. Dry residue at 180°C: 345 mg/L.

The composition is quoted per litre as the label prints it — not converted to per 100 ml in the ingredient panel. Energy, fat, carbohydrate, sugars and protein are all 0 per 100 ml on the retrieved nutrition panel; salt is under 0.01 g per 100 ml. Sold at FairPrice in multiple formats (including 6 x 1.5 L and 24 x 500 ml cartons). Source: Cachat Spring, France Origin: France Via: FairPrice

Evian Sparkling Carbonated Natural Mineral Water — flagged sparkling

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

Ingredients (Open Food Facts (secondary)): Carbonated Natural Mineral Water. Composition in mg/litre: Calcium Ca++: 80 — Magnesium Mg++: 26 — Sodium Na+: 6.5 — Potassium K+: 1 — Silica SiO2: 15 — Bicarbonates HCO3-: 360 — Sulphates SO4--: 14 — Chlorides Cl-: 10 — Nitrates NO3-: 3.8. Dry residue 180°C: 345 mg/L.

Same source water and same mineral composition as still Evian, with carbon dioxide added. Panelled here only as a cross-reference; the sparkling-water comparison lives on the sparkling and flavoured water page. Energy 0 kcal per 100 ml on the retrieved listing. Sparkling — see sparkling page Origin: France

Perrier Sparkling Natural Mineral Water (plain) — flagged non-SG list, SG pack not verified

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

Ingredients (US retailer listings — NOT an SG pack list): Mineral Water, Carbon Dioxide.

Multiple US retailer listings agree on this two-ingredient list for plain Perrier. It is panelled here only as a flagged reference, because no FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for plain Perrier in this pass. Do not treat this as the SG pack list — the SG bottle needs a pack photo. Perrier Lemon (FairPrice list: sparkling natural mineral water, natural lemon flavour) is panelled on the sparkling and flavoured water page. Non-SG list — verify SG pack Sparkling

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

F&N Ice Mountain Drinking Water — Listed at FairPrice (24 x 600 ml, 12 x 1.5 L) and widely sold in Singapore; no verbatim SG ingredient or mineral-composition section retrieved in this pass.
Dasani Drinking Water — Listed at FairPrice; no verbatim SG ingredient or composition section retrieved.
FairPrice Pure Drinking Water / FairPrice Natural Mineral Water (house brand) — Listed at FairPrice in multiple formats; no verbatim SG ingredient or composition section retrieved.
Life Distilled Drinking Water — Listed at FairPrice; no verbatim SG ingredient or composition section retrieved.
Volvic Natural Mineral Water — Listed at FairPrice; no verbatim SG ingredient or composition section retrieved.
Fiji Natural Artesian Water — Listed at Cold Storage and FairPrice; no verbatim SG ingredient or composition section retrieved.
Spritzer Natural Mineral Water (still) — Malaysian brand sold in Singapore; no verbatim SG ingredient or composition section retrieved for a still variant.
San Benedetto, Aqua, Smartwater, SamDaSoo, Montana, pH Balancer / pH Infinity — Seen on FairPrice Xtra shelves in social-media shelf photos (Oct 2026) and in FairPrice listings; no verbatim SG ingredient or composition section retrieved for any of them.
Meadows Pure / Distilled / Oxygenated Drinking Water — Cold Storage house brand; Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, and no pack list was retrieved.
Ice Mountain Pure Drinking Water (6 x 1.5 L) — Listed at FairPrice as a separate line from F&N Ice Mountain Drinking Water; no verbatim SG ingredient or composition section retrieved — do not assume it matches the F&N Ice Mountain list.
Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee ranges — Checked only through the FairPrice/Cold Storage listings and search results above in this pass; their full still-water shelves were not paginated in full. Parallel-imported waters at Donki / Meidi-Ya / Le Petit Depot / Mustafa remain the largest residual gap and need in-store pack checks.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g or per 100 ml unless the Basis column says otherwise. 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. Per-serving-only figures are in a separate table below and are never sorted against per-100 figures, and are never converted to per-100 by guessing.

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. Where a source printed salt only, the sodium figure is the arithmetic conversion (salt ÷ 2.5) and is flagged as converted.

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, sucrose, glucose 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.

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Evian Natural Mineral Water	Per 100 ml, as sold	0 kcal	0 g	0 g	0 g	0 g	0 g	not stated (salt under 0.01 g as printed)
Evian Sparkling Carbonated Natural Mineral Water	Per 100 ml, as sold	0 kcal	not stated	0 g	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated

Observed numbers, no verdict: both Evian rows tabled are 0 kcal per 100 ml with 0 g sugars. The mineral composition (calcium 80 mg, magnesium 26 mg, sodium 6.5 mg per litre as printed) is quoted in the ingredient panels, not in this table, because the table is per 100 ml and the label prints per litre — converting would risk a factor-of-ten error, and the two Evian Open Food Facts entries disagree on exactly that conversion.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 ml nutrition panel was verified in this pass for plain Perrier (SG bottle) or for any of the seen-but-not-verified still waters (Ice Mountain, Dasani, FairPrice house brand, Life, Volvic, Fiji, Spritzer, San Benedetto, Aqua, Smartwater, Meadows). Their ingredient panels are unchanged.

How to read a mineral or drinking water label — the jargon, in plain English

Natural mineral water: Water from a named underground source, bottled at source, with its natural minerals. Evian's source is the Cachat Spring in France.
Drinking water / purified water: Water treated (e.g. filtered, distilled or reverse-osmosis) to drinking standard. It is not the same claim as "natural mineral water", which must come from a named source.
Distilled water: Water purified by distillation. It has effectively no minerals — do not assume it carries the mineral composition of a mineral water.
Dry residue: The minerals left after evaporating the water at a stated temperature (here 180°C). Evian prints 345 mg/L — a measure of total dissolved minerals, not an ingredient.
Bicarbonates / sulphates / chlorides / nitrates: Naturally occurring mineral salts dissolved in the source water, printed in mg per litre. They are the water's composition, not additives.
Sparkling vs still: Sparkling water has carbon dioxide added (or naturally present); still water does not. The two are different products even from the same source.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. The groups 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. No page claims 100% completeness.

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: FairPrice water category listings (inventory: FairPrice Pure Drinking Water, Dasani, Life Distilled, F&N Ice Mountain, Evian, FairPrice Natural Mineral Water, Volvic, Polar); Open Food Facts (Evian Natural Mineral Water, multiple entries, including manufacturer-provided data; Evian Sparkling composition); retailer listings for Evian composition (Mattoris, Bienmanger); Cold Storage listings (inventory only — no ingredient sections published); social-media shelf photos of FairPrice Xtra water shelves (Oct 2026, inventory only). Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.