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Oats and instant oatmeal: what's actually in it?

Three different products share the oats shelf. Plain rolled oats are a single ingredient: rolled oats, nothing added. Instant oatmeal is oats cut and rolled thinner so it cooks in minutes — the plain versions are still just oats (sometimes with bran and a calcium fortificant), while the flavoured sachets add sugar, milk powder, rice flakes and flavouring. And oat cereal drinks (3-in-1 sachets) and oat congee sachets are flavoured instant meals built on oats and rice flakes, with sugar, creamer and seasonings. The front of the pack rarely makes the distinction clear; the ingredient list does.

This page covers oats and instant oatmeal sold in Singapore: plain rolled/quick/instant oats, flavoured instant oat sachets, oat congee sachets and 3-in-1 oat cereal drinks. Muesli and granola are on a separate page (category 49), other breakfast cereals on another (category 50), and cornflakes on their own page (category 46). Oat cookies and oat cereal squares are not panelled here — they are biscuits/cereals, not oatmeal — but the Quaker Oatmeal Squares range is panelled on the other-breakfast-cereals page. This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Plain oats are one ingredient. FairPrice Rolled Oats lists "100% Rolled oats", and the Singapore Open Food Facts entry for Quaker Instant Oatmeal (400g) lists "100% Australian Wholegrain Oats".
Fortified plain instant oatmeal adds bran, not sugar. Quaker Instant Oatmeal Flake Tin — Calcium & Fibre lists whole oats, oat bran, wheat bran, guar gum, pregelatinised starch and calcium carbonate — no sugar.
Flavoured sachets are a different product. Quaker Instant Oats — Nourishing Red Dates is only 57% oats; the rest is sugar, rice flakes, milk powders, red date powder and flavouring.
Oat congee sachets are savoury instant meals. The chicken, corn and spinach flavour lists oats and rice flakes first, then a chicken-corn flavour seasoning, maltodextrin, sweet corn powder and chicken powder; the yam and pork flavour is built the same way.
3-in-1 oat cereal drinks are sweetened drinks, not porridge. The chocolate version lists wholegrain oats first, then sugar, creamer, maltodextrin, cereal flakes and cocoa powder, plus sucralose; the matcha version adds matcha green tea and stevia extract.
The US Quaker flavours are not the Singapore flavours. US Apples & Cinnamon / Maple & Brown Sugar / Cinnamon & Spice instant oatmeal (panelled below, flagged) list whole grain rolled oats, sugar, salt and spices — but Singapore's flavoured range is the red-dates, congee and 3-in-1 range above, so do not read the US lists as the SG pack lists.

At a glance

Product	Type	First ingredient	Added sugar?	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
FairPrice Rolled Oats	Plain rolled oats	Rolled oats (100%)	No	1kg	Australia
Quaker Instant Oatmeal 400g (SG, Open Food Facts)	Plain instant oatmeal	Wholegrain oats (100%)	No	400g	not stated
Quaker Instant Oatmeal Flake Tin — Calcium & Fibre	Plain instant oatmeal, fortified	Whole oats	No	700g	Taiwan
Quaker Instant Oats — Nourishing Red Dates	Flavoured instant oats	Oats (57%)	Yes — sugar (2nd)	6 × 35g	China
Quaker Instant Oats Congee — Chicken, Corn and Spinach	Savoury oat congee sachet	Oats	No sugar listed	30g (sachet; box size not stated)	China
Quaker Instant Oats Congee — Yam and Pork	Savoury oat congee sachet	Oats	No sugar listed	30g (sachet; box size not stated)	China
Quaker 3 in 1 Instant Oat Cereal Drink — Chocolate	Oat cereal drink	Wholegrain oats	Yes — sugar (2nd) + sucralose	15 × 28g	not stated
Quaker 3 in 1 Oat Cereal Drink — Matcha Green Tea	Oat cereal drink	Wholegrain oats	Yes — sugar (2nd) + stevia extract	not stated	not stated
Quaker Instant Oatmeal — Original (US listing, flagged)	Plain instant oatmeal (US)	Whole grain rolled oats	No	21 × 0.98 oz	not stated
Quaker Instant Oatmeal — Apples & Cinnamon (US listing, flagged)	Flavoured instant oatmeal (US)	Whole grain rolled oats	Yes — sugar (2nd)	not stated	not stated

Panelled with verbatim lists: 10 products — 8 Singapore-sold products (FairPrice ingredient sections and the Singapore Open Food Facts entry) and 2 flagged US Quaker listings, which are not SG shelf claims. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below.

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Plain oats — one ingredient

FairPrice Rolled Oats

Pack size: 1kg · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients: 100% Rolled oats

FairPrice house-brand rolled oats, origin Australia. The listing describes it as 100% wholegrain and naturally cholesterol free. One ingredient, nothing added — the reference point for the whole page. Plain oats No added sugar Origin: Australia

Quaker Instant Oatmeal — 400g (Singapore, Open Food Facts Singapore)

Pack size: 400g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts Singapore, secondary — barcode 9556174802137): 100% Australian Wholegrain Oats

The Singapore Open Food Facts entry for the 400g Quaker Instant Oatmeal sold in Singapore gives a single-ingredient list: 100% Australian wholegrain oats. Serving size on the entry is 35g. Flag: Open Food Facts is a community database (secondary source); the FairPrice ingredient section for this exact pack was not retrieved in this pass, so the SG pack still deserves a photo check. Plain oats No added sugar Origin: Australia (oats)

Quaker Instant Oatmeal Flake Tin — Calcium & Fibre

Pack size: 700g · Made in: Taiwan (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Whole Oats, Oat Bran, Wheat Bran, Guar Gum, Pregelatinised Starch, Calcium Carbonate

Fortified with calcium and fibre, with added oat bran and wheat bran; the listing says the oat grains remain whole. Guar gum and pregelatinised starch are thickeners/texturisers; calcium carbonate is the calcium source. No sugar in the list. Origin Taiwan (FairPrice listing). Plain instant oatmeal Fortified: calcium, fibre No added sugar Contains wheat bran

Flavoured instant oats — sweetened sachets

Quaker Instant Oats — Nourishing Red Dates

Pack size: 6 × 35g · Made in: China (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Oats (57%), Sugar, Rice Flakes (Rice, Sugar), Skimmed Milk Powder, Whole Milk Powder, Red Date Powder (Content>0.5%), Flavour (Contains Milk).

Only 57% oats. Sugar is second, and the rice flakes themselves contain sugar; skimmed and whole milk powders and red date powder (over 0.5%) make up the rest, with flavouring. Allergens (FairPrice): contains cereal containing gluten and milk; may contain traces of soy and egg. Origin China. Flavoured instant oats Added sugar: sugar Allergen: gluten, milk

Oat congee — savoury sachets

Quaker Instant Oats Congee — Chicken, Corn and Spinach Flavour

Pack size: 30g (sachet; box size not stated) · Made in: China (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Oats, Rice Flakes, Chicken Corn Flavor Seasoning, Maltodextrin, Sweet Corn Powder, Chicken Powder, Onion Powder, Anticaking Agent, Sweet Corn Particles, Dehydrated Chicken And Spinach Pieces.

A savoury instant congee: oats and rice flakes first, then a chicken-corn flavour seasoning with maltodextrin, sweet corn powder and chicken powder, plus dehydrated chicken and spinach pieces. Each 30g sachet provides about 0.5g oatmeal soluble fibre (FairPrice listing). Origin China; imported by Apac Food Pte Ltd, Singapore. Savoury congee No sugar listed

Quaker Instant Oats Congee — Yam and Pork Flavour

Pack size: 30g (sachet; box size not stated) · Made in: China (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Oats, Rice Flakes, Yam Pork Flavor Seasoning, Flavor, Spice, Flavor Enchancer, Anti Caking Agent, Yam, Spinach Pork, Carrot.

Same savoury-congee pattern as the chicken flavour, with a yam-pork flavour seasoning. Spelling ("Enchancer") is as printed on the FairPrice listing. Each 30g sachet provides about 0.3g oatmeal soluble fibre (FairPrice listing). Origin China. Savoury congee No sugar listed

Oat cereal drinks — 3-in-1 sachets

Quaker 3 in 1 Instant Oat Cereal Drink — Chocolate

Pack size: 15 × 28g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Wholegrain Oats, Sugar, Creamer, Maltodextrin, Cereal Flakes, Cocoa Powder, Calcium Carbonate, Flavourings, Salt, Sucralose

A sweetened drink, not porridge: oats first, but sugar second, with creamer, maltodextrin, cereal flakes and cocoa powder, and sucralose as an additional sweetener. Made by adding 150ml hot water per sachet. Oat cereal drink Added sugar: sugar + sucralose

Quaker 3 in 1 Oat Cereal Drink — Matcha Green Tea

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

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Wholegrain Oats, Sugar, Creamer (Non-Hydrogenated Palm Oil, Glucose Syrup Soilds, Milk Protein, Stabilizer, Emusifier, and Tocopherol), Cereal Flakes (Wheat Flour, Corn Starch, Soya Bean Protein Flour, Corn Flour, Rice, Malt Extract, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Stabilizer), Maltodextrin, Calcium Carbonate, Skim Milk, Matcha Green Tea, Salt, Flavourings, and Stevia Extract)

The same 3-in-1 pattern with matcha green tea instead of cocoa, and stevia extract as the additional sweetener (instead of sucralose in the chocolate version). Spelling ("Soilds", "Emusifier") is as printed on the FairPrice listing. Contains oats, wheat, soya and milk (FairPrice). Oat cereal drink Added sugar: sugar + stevia extract Allergen: wheat, soya, milk

US Quaker listings — flagged, not Singapore packs

These two are panelled only because the US Quaker instant-oatmeal lists are widely quoted online and are easily mistaken for the Singapore range. They are not verified as sold in Singapore in this form.

Quaker Instant Oatmeal — Original (US listing)

Pack size: 21 × 0.98 oz · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, US): Whole grain rolled oats, calcium carbonate, salt, guar gum, caramel color, reduced iron, vitamin a palmitate.

Plain US instant oatmeal: oats first with calcium carbonate, salt, guar gum, caramel colour and vitamins/minerals. No sugar. Compare with the Singapore plain instant oatmeal above, which lists 100% wholegrain oats with no additives. US listing only No added sugar

Quaker Instant Oatmeal — Apples & Cinnamon (US listing)

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

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, US): Whole grain oats, sugar, dried apples, natural flavor, cinnamon, salt

The US flavoured sachet pattern: oats, then sugar, dried apples, natural flavour, cinnamon and salt. The same short list is quoted for the US Maple & Brown Sugar flavour (whole grain rolled oats, sugar, salt, natural flavor) and Cinnamon & Spice (whole grain rolled oats, sugar, salt, cinnamon, spices, natural flavor). None of these three flavours was verified as sold in Singapore in this pass — Singapore's flavoured range is the red-dates, congee and 3-in-1 range panelled above. US listing only Added sugar: sugar

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Harvest Fields Rolled Oats — Whole Grain (FairPrice) — listed at FairPrice (origin Australia, 100% wholegrain claim); no ingredient section was retrieved in this pass. Seen-but-not-verified.
Origins Healthfood Organic Rolled Oats (FairPrice) — listed (origin USA, organic); no ingredient section retrieved.
Foodsterr Rolled Oats and Foodsterr Organic Finnish Rolled Oats (FairPrice) — listed (Australian / Finnish oats); no ingredient section retrieved for either.
Red Tractor Foods Rolled Oats — Organic Creamy Style and Australian Creamy Style (FairPrice) — listed, described as 100% wholegrain; no ingredient section retrieved.
RedMan Rolled Oats (FairPrice) — listed (origin Germany); no ingredient section retrieved.
Bob's Red Mill Whole Grain Rolled Oats — Extra Thick (Organic) and Quick Cooking (FairPrice) — listed; no FairPrice ingredient section retrieved. The brand's own lists are US-market lists and are not quoted here as SG packs.
Quaker Quickcook Oatmeal, Quaker Whole Rolled Oats, Quaker Instant Oatmeal (refill pack), Quaker 3 in 1 Original Oat Cereal Drink (FairPrice) — all listed in FairPrice's Quaker range; no ingredient section retrieved for any of them in this pass. Do not assume they match the panelled Quaker rows.
Quaker 5 Black Multigrain Mixed Instant Oatmeal and Quaker 5 Red Multigrain Mixed Instant Oatmeal (FairPrice) — listed; no ingredient section retrieved.
Quaker Chia Seed Oatmeal Beverage — Nuts Flavour (FairPrice) — listed in the Quaker range; no ingredient section retrieved.
Quaker Instant Oatmeal 800g (Singapore, Open Food Facts, barcode 9556174802113) — a Singapore OFF entry exists with per-100g nutrition (see nutrition section), but no ingredient list was retrieved for it, so it is not panelled as an ingredient row.
Uncle Tobys oats, steel-cut oats, oat groats, and house-brand oats at Giant, Sheng Siong, Cold Storage, Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya and Le Petit Depot — not inventoried with verified lists in this pass; Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, and the other chains' oat ranges were not retrieved with ingredient sections.
Lazada / Shopee Singapore oat listings (including parallel-imported Quaker, Bob's Red Mill and UK oat brands) — inventoried as a channel in principle, but no reseller listing in this pass carried a verifiable full pack list; reseller short descriptions are not verbatim lists.
Quaker Oat Cookies (Honeynut, Raisins) and Quaker Oatmeal Squares — out of scope here (biscuits / breakfast cereal); Oatmeal Squares are panelled on the other-breakfast-cereals page.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g, unless a row says otherwise. Sugars here are total sugars as printed. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these oat 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. Where a source printed salt but not sodium, that is shown as "not stated (salt … g)" — sodium is not back-calculated and presented as printed.

Total vs added sugars: most 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, 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.)
Quaker Instant Oatmeal 400g (SG, Open Food Facts Singapore, secondary)	Per 100 g, as sold	379 kcal (1,585 kJ)	not stated	9 g	1.6 g	58 g	1 g	6.1 mg (salt 0.015 g)
Quaker Instant Oatmeal — Original (US listing, Open Food Facts, secondary)	Per 100 g, as sold	357 kcal (1,494 kJ)	14.29 g	7.14 g	1.79 g	67.86 g	0 g	not stated (salt 0.67 g)

Observed numbers, no verdict: the Singapore Quaker Instant Oatmeal 400g lists 1 g sugars per 100 g and the US Original lists 0 g sugars per 100 g; both are plain-oat products with no sugar in the ingredient list. No per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for the FairPrice Rolled Oats, the Quaker Calcium & Fibre tin, the Red Dates sachets, either congee flavour, or either 3-in-1 drink — FairPrice's nutrition sections for those products are per-serving only and were not retrieved here, so no figure is used and none is converted.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for FairPrice Rolled Oats, Quaker Instant Oatmeal Flake Tin — Calcium & Fibre, Quaker Instant Oats — Nourishing Red Dates, Quaker Instant Oats Congee (Chicken, Corn and Spinach; Yam and Pork), Quaker 3 in 1 Instant Oat Cereal Drink — Chocolate, Quaker 3 in 1 Oat Cereal Drink — Matcha Green Tea, Quaker Instant Oatmeal — Apples & Cinnamon (US), and all products in seen-but-not-verified above. The Singapore Open Food Facts entry for Quaker Instant Oatmeal 800g gives per-100 g figures (368 kcal, fat 8.57 g, saturated fat 1.71 g, carbohydrate 62.86 g, sugars 1.14 g, protein 12.29 g, sodium 2.9 mg) but has no verified ingredient list, so it is not tabled as a panelled product's nutrition here; see research notes.

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

Rolled oats / old-fashioned oats: Whole oat groats steamed and rolled flat. One ingredient when plain. They take longer to cook than instant oats.
Instant / quick oats: Oats rolled thinner (and sometimes cut smaller) so they cook in minutes with hot water. Plain instant oats are still just oats; flavoured instant oats are oats plus sugar, milk powder and flavouring.
Oat bran / wheat bran: The fibre-rich outer layer of the grain, added back in fortified instant oatmeal. Wheat bran means the product contains wheat/gluten.
Pregelatinised starch / guar gum: Thickeners that give instant oatmeal its creamy texture when hot water is added. They are not sweeteners.
3-in-1 oat cereal drink: A sachet drink: oats + sugar + creamer, made with hot water. It is a sweetened drink, not a bowl of porridge — check the sugar position (second here) before comparing it with plain oats.
"Nourishing" / "Calcium & Fibre" on the front: Marketing and fortification claims. The ingredient list shows whether the product is plain oats with added bran/calcium, or oats with added sugar and milk powder.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Plain oats, flavoured sachets, congee sachets and 3-in-1 drinks 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. Harvest Fields, Origins, Foodsterr, Red Tractor, RedMan and Bob's Red Mill rolled oats, the rest of the Quaker range, and the Giant/Sheng Siong/Cold Storage/Donki oat ranges are inventoried above as seen-but-not-verified for the reasons given, not hidden. No page claims 100% completeness.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice ingredient sections (FairPrice Rolled Oats; Quaker Calcium & Fibre tin, Red Dates, both congee flavours, 3-in-1 Chocolate and Matcha); Open Food Facts Singapore (Quaker Instant Oatmeal 400g, barcode 9556174802137; Quaker Instant Oatmeal 800g nutrition only, barcode 9556174802113); Open Food Facts US (Quaker Instant Oatmeal Original and Apples & Cinnamon, flagged non-SG); FairPrice Quaker brand-range listing (inventory of unpanelled Quaker variants). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so its oat shelf could not be panelled from its site. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: figures are standardised to per 100 g where the source gives per-100 figures; per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and are not converted; 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.