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Plant milks: what's actually in it?

Five different bases share the plant-milk shelf — soy, almond, oat, coconut (drinking) and rice — and the same base can be a very different product depending on the brand. Some are two ingredients (soybeans and water). Others are mostly water with 2–3% of the named nut or grain, plus oil, sweetener, gums and fortification. The front of the carton rarely makes the difference clear; the ingredient list does — especially the percentage of the named ingredient, where the pack states it.

This page covers ready-to-drink plant milks sold in Singapore: soy milk, almond milk, oat milk, drinking coconut milk and rice milk, chilled and UHT, plain, sweetened and flavoured variants as separate rows. Dairy milk is a separate category and is not included here. Canned coconut milk and coconut cream for cooking are also out of scope — they are a cooking ingredient, not a drinking milk. Instant/powder plant milks are noted in seen-but-not-verified only. This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• The shortest lists are the soy milks. Marusan Organic Unsweetened Soy Milk is water and organic soybeans only (non-SG retailer list, flagged below); NutriSoy No Sugar Added is non-GMO soya beans, calcium carbonate, stabiliser, vitamin D3 and flavouring — five items.
• Almond percentage is the number to watch. Australia's Own Unsweetened Almond states 2.4% almonds; So Good Unsweetened Almond states 2.5%; PureHarvest Unsweetened Almond states 7% activated almonds; Ecomil Sugar Free Almond states 6–7% depending on the listing. Same shelf, very different almond content.
• Oat percentage varies too. Australia's Own Unsweetened Oat states 11% ground oats; MOMA Original states 12% oats in its oat base; Oatly states 10% oats across its range; MilkLAB Oat states 10% oat flour.
• Calcium fortification is usually calcium carbonate. Most fortified milks on this page use calcium carbonate (sometimes listed as "natural calcium" / "minerals (natural calcium, calcium carbonate)"); PureHarvest uses "plant calcium" / "organic plant calcium". Unfortified milks (Oatly Organic, PureHarvest Rice Milk without calcium, Marusan Organic Unsweetened) list no calcium source at all.
• "Unsweetened" does not always mean "no sweetener". Several unsweetened milks contain no added sugar at all; others are sweetened with agave syrup (Australia's Own Almond, Ecomil Almond with Agave) or cane sugar (Almond Breeze Original, MilkLAB Almond). The ingredient list, not the front label, settles it.
• Soy milk splits into two traditions. The Singapore/Asian fresh soya drinks (NutriSoy, Marigold PowerBeans, Vitasoy) are soya-bean-led with sucrose or no sugar and a short list; the Australian/European UHT soy drinks (Alpro, MilkLAB) are water-led with 8.7% or less soya and added oil, calcium and vitamins.
• Flavoured soy drinks are a different product. Vitasoy Melon Flavoured Soy Drink lists 16 ingredients including maltodextrin, flavouring, three gums/stabilisers and two colours (tartrazine, Brilliant Blue FCF) — compare that with the 5-ingredient Vitasoy Soya Bean Drink.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 31 products. Source strength: 7 from FairPrice Singapore ingredient sections (Australia's Own Almond Unsweetened, Australia's Own Almond with agave, Australia's Own Oat Unsweetened, Australia's Own Coconut Unsweetened, MOMA Oat Original, PureHarvest Rice Milk, PureHarvest Rice Milk with Calcium — plus the FairPrice inventory that confirms the others are sold in Singapore); 6 from Open Food Facts Singapore/world entries for products sold in Singapore (Vitasoy Soya Bean Drink, Vitasoy Melon, Marigold PowerBeans, NutriSoy Fresh, NutriSoy No Sugar Added, PureHarvest Almond); the rest from brand or retailer lists in Australia, the UK/EU, Hong Kong or Canada, each flagged as non-SG — the SG pack still needs a photo for those. Seen-but-not-verified: 46 products/variants plus uncounted house-brand and import-shelf items — see the list below.

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

Soy milk

Almond milk

Oat milk

Coconut milk — drinking (not canned cooking coconut milk)

Rice milk

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Plenish Organic Unsweetened — Almond, Cashew, Hazelnut, Oat, Soya (5 variants) — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no verbatim ingredient list was retrieved for any of them in this pass. The FairPrice description for the oat milk says it is made from "100% organic oats, filtered water and a pinch of sea salt" with no additives — that is a description, not a verbatim pack list, so it is not panelled. Needs a pack photo.
• Minor Figures Barista Oat Milk 1L — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• 137 Degrees — Almond, Pistachio, Walnut, Macadamia milks (4 variants) — sold in Singapore via 7-Eleven, Lazada and Shopee SG; the brand describes them as naturally nutty with no sugar added, but no verbatim ingredient list was retrieved for any variant in this pass.
• Oatside — Barista Blend, Chocolate, Chocolate Hazelnut oat milks, plus Nobo Soy (4 variants) — Singapore brand, sold at FairPrice and Cold Storage and via RedMart/Shopee; described as having no artificial flavours, gums, emulsifiers or preservatives, but no verbatim ingredient list was retrieved for any variant in this pass.
• Rude Health — Organic Oat Drink, Organic Brown Rice Drink (2 variants) — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• Marusan flavoured soy milks (about 6 variants: Matcha, Coffee, Malt, Red Tea, Peach, Banana/Amazake) — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no SG-verified verbatim list retrieved for any flavoured variant in this pass. Only the Organic Unsweetened and Original are panelled above, from flagged non-SG lists.
• Marusan Almond Milk — Sweetened and Unsweetened (2 variants) — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• Homesoy Soya Milk — Unsweetened (No Added Sugar) 1L — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• F&N / Magnolia chilled soya bean drinks — not inventoried with a verified list in this pass; needs a shelf/pack check.
• Australia's Own Organic Soy Milk — Unsweetened 1L — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no ingredient section was retrieved for it in this pass (the almond, oat and coconut variants from the same brand were retrieved — this one was not).
• Australia's Own Organic Rice Milk and Organic Macadamia Milk (2 variants) — the brand's range includes them (per a Singapore family guide), but no SG ingredient section was retrieved for either in this pass.
• Koita Organic Oat Plant-Based Milk 1L — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• All Good Oat Milk — Barista 1L — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• Plant Projects No Ordinary Oat Milk 1L — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• OMG Oat Milk Goodness — Barista Olive Oil Oat Milk 1L — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• Ecomil Organic Soya Milk — Sugar Free 1L — listed at FairPrice Singapore; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass (only the Ecomil almond variants were retrieved, from non-SG sources).
• BamNut Milk — Everyday, Airy, Barista (3 variants) — Bambara groundnut milk, sold at Cold Storage and FairPrice Singapore; no verbatim list retrieved for any variant in this pass.
• Oatbedient oat milk powder sachets — Singapore brand, sold at FairPrice, Sheng Siong, Cold Storage and 7-Eleven; a powder to mix with hot water, not a ready-to-drink milk, and no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• Vitasoy Oat Milk — Unsweetened — listed at FairPrice Singapore, but the FairPrice ingredient section for it shows what looks like a muesli/cereal ingredient list (whole grains, cashews, hazelnuts, quinoa, honey), which cannot be the oat milk's list. Treated as a retailer data error: not panelled, needs a pack photo.
• Alpro Almond, Alpro Oat and Alpro Coconut drinks (3 variants) — only the Alpro Soya Original is panelled above (flagged UK list); the almond, oat and coconut drinks' Singapore sale was not verified in this pass, and no verbatim lists were retrieved.
• MilkLAB Coconut Milk and MilkLAB Macadamia Milk (2 variants) — the brand's range includes them, but their Singapore sale and lists were not verified in this pass (only the soy, almond and oat variants are panelled, from flagged AU lists).
• Sunkist Pistachios Milk with Chocolate Flavour 180ml — appears in FairPrice similar-product listings; no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• Green Earth Organic Instant Soy Milk Powder — listed at FairPrice Singapore; a powder, and no verbatim list retrieved in this pass.
• House-brand plant milks (FairPrice, Cold Storage, Giant, Sheng Siong), Don Don Donki imported plant milks, Meidi-Ya / Le Petit Depot / Mustafa / Little Farms plant milks, and RedMart's wider plant-milk range — not inventoried with verified lists in this pass; the online category listings are truncated/paginated and many packs carry no online ingredient section. Needs in-store shelf checks and pack photos.
• Canned coconut milk / coconut cream (e.g. Kara, Ayam Brand) and coconut water — out of scope: cooking ingredients / a different drink, not drinking coconut milk. Not counted as missing.

Seen-but-not-verified total: 46 products/variants (counting the grouped bullets above), plus the uncounted house-brand and import-shelf items in the last bullet.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 ml unless the Basis column says otherwise. Sugars here are total sugars as printed, not added sugars — the ingredient panels show which products add sugar and which do not. Calcium: most fortified milks on this page list calcium carbonate (or "natural calcium" / "plant calcium") in the ingredients; the nutrition table does not repeat calcium figures unless the source printed them per 100 ml, because several sources give calcium per serving only.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Oatly and Ecomil print salt, not sodium, so for those rows sodium is derived as salt × 400 and marked as derived — it is not a printed sodium figure.

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 in the research notes. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, sucrose, cane sugar, agave syrup, fructose) versus naturally occurring sugars (from oats, soy or fruit).

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 official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these plant-milk packs in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned.

Observed numbers, no verdict: the five Oatly rows list 3.4 g sugars per 100 ml except No Sugars (0 g); the Barista Edition is the highest-energy Oatly at 61 kcal per 100 ml and the highest-fat at 3.0 g, against 39 kcal and 0.5 g fat for the Organic. Ecomil Almond with Agave lists 2.4 g sugars per 100 g; Australia's Own Unsweetened Almond lists 0.1 g sugars per 100 g and 0.6 g protein per 100 g (CHOICE, secondary, partial row). Protein is highest in the soy milks by type, but no per-100 ml soy nutrition panel was verified in this pass, so no soy row appears in the table — see the nutrition seen-but-not-verified list below rather than borrowing a figure from another variant.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 ml nutrition panel was verified in this pass for any Vitasoy, Marigold PowerBeans, NutriSoy, Marusan, Alpro Soya, MilkLAB (soy, almond or oat), Blue Diamond Almond Breeze, So Good Almond, Australia's Own Oat Unsweetened, Australia's Own Coconut Unsweetened, MOMA Oat Original, PureHarvest Rice Milk (either variant), PureHarvest Almond Unsweetened, or any of the 46 seen-but-not-verified products. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here. Two conflicting per-serve figures were found for Australia's Own Coconut Unsweetened (44 kcal per 250 ml serve in one secondary source; 39 kcal per 100 g in another) and are not used.

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

Named-ingredient percentage (almonds 2.4%, oats 10%)

The share of the carton that is actually almonds, oats, soy or coconut. Most of the carton is water. A higher percentage usually means a stronger flavour and more of the base's nutrients — but it is only comparable within the same base (almond vs almond, oat vs oat).

Calcium carbonate / natural calcium / plant calcium

Added calcium sources. Calcium carbonate is mined/processed mineral calcium; "natural calcium" on Australia's Own is listed alongside calcium carbonate; "plant calcium" on PureHarvest is calcium from a plant source (lithothamnion seaweed is the usual source, but the pack does not name it here). An unfortified plant milk lists no calcium source and is not a calcium source in the way a fortified one is.

Tonyu / muchosei tonyu (無調整豆乳)

Japanese unadjusted soy milk: soybeans and water only, nothing added to adjust it — no sugar, salt, oil or flavouring. Marusan Organic Unsweetened is the example on this page.

Barista (milk)

A plant milk formulated for coffee: usually a higher fat/oil content and stabilisers so it steams, stretches and does not split in hot coffee. MilkLAB and Minor Figures are barista brands; the "barista" label does not mean a different base ingredient.

UHT / long life vs chilled

UHT milk is heat-treated and shelf-stable until opened; chilled milk is pasteurised and kept refrigerated. The same brand can sell the same-named drink in both forms with different lists — check the pack, not the brand name.

Gellan gum / xanthan gum / guar gum / locust bean gum

Thickeners and stabilisers that keep the drink from separating and give it body. They are common in almond and oat milks because the named ingredient is only a few percent of the carton. Their presence is not a health claim either way — it is a texture choice.

"No added sugar" vs "no sugar" vs "0 g sugars"

"No added sugar" means none was added during manufacture; the drink can still contain sugars from its base (oats contain sugars). "0 g sugars" (Oatly No Sugars) is a nutrition-panel figure, not a claim about the ingredient list. Agave syrup, cane sugar, sucrose and fructose are all added sugars/sweeteners even when the front label says "natural".

Activated almonds

Almonds soaked in water before processing (PureHarvest's wording). It is a preparation method, not a different ingredient.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Soy, almond, oat, coconut and rice milks are different products with different protein, fat and sugar profiles, 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. 46 products/variants are in seen-but-not-verified for the verification reasons given, not hidden — including the whole Oatside, 137 Degrees, Plenish and Minor Figures ranges, whose lists could not be retrieved online. House-brand and import-shelf plant milks were not inventoried with verified lists in this pass.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice Singapore ingredient sections (Australia's Own Almond Unsweetened, Australia's Own Almond with agave, Australia's Own Oat Unsweetened, Australia's Own Coconut Unsweetened, MOMA Oat Original, PureHarvest Rice Milk, PureHarvest Rice Milk with Calcium); FairPrice Singapore category and similar-product listings (inventory: Plenish, Marusan, Minor Figures, Blue Diamond, Rude Health, Australia's Own Soy, Koita, All Good, Plant Projects, OMG, MilkLAB, Ecomil, Homesoy, Sunkist Pistachios Milk); Open Food Facts Singapore/world entries for products sold in Singapore (Vitasoy Soya Bean Drink, Vitasoy Melon, Vitasoy Malt, Marigold PowerBeans, NutriSoy Fresh, NutriSoy No Sugar Added, PureHarvest Almond); brand sites (Oatly, Ecomil); Australian retailer listings (MilkLAB, So Good via Spoonful, PureHarvest); UK/Ireland retailer listings (Alpro via Tesco/Ocado, Oatly Barista via Morrisons); Hong Kong retailer listing (Marusan Organic via CitySuper); Canadian retailer listing (Marusan Original); Shopee Singapore listings (So Good official direct sales, Blue Diamond 180ml); HoneyKids Asia Singapore plant-milk guide (inventory for Oatside, 137 Degrees, Australia's Own range, BamNut). Search limits in this pass: a second batch of web searches hit the search provider's rate limit (429) on 5 November 2026 and several page fetches failed with a local worker error, so some brands (notably Oatside, Minor Figures, 137 Degrees, Plenish) were inventoried from FairPrice listings and the HoneyKids guide but their verbatim lists could not be retrieved — they sit in seen-but-not-verified rather than being panelled from descriptions. 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 or per 100 ml 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 (sodium derived from printed salt where the source prints salt only, and marked as derived). Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.