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Ready-to-Drink Cocktails: what's actually in it?

Ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktails are the hardest alcohol shelf to panel honestly: most cans and bottles print no full ingredient list, only the spirit base, the flavour, the ABV and an allergen line. The two products panelled here — Bacardi Breezer Lime and Smirnoff Ice Guarana — have retrieved lists, both flagged non-SG, and they show the pattern: water, spirit or malt base, sugar, carbon dioxide, citric acid, flavouring, preservatives and colour. Everything else on the SG RTD shelf (Suntory -196 Strong Zero, Horoyoi, Smirnoff Ice Original and other flavours, Breezer other flavours, White Claw and the rest) stays seen-but-not-verified until a pack photo closes it. This page is thin on purpose — a short honest page beats a long invented one.

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

• Only two RTD products have retrieved lists in this pass. Bacardi Breezer Lime (EU product certificate) and Smirnoff Ice Guarana (Open Food Facts, Spanish list) — both flagged non-SG. Every other SG RTD is seen-but-not-verified.
• Breezer Lime is vodka-based, per its EU certificate. Water, vodka (grain distillate, water), sugar, carbon dioxide, citric acid, flavourings, sodium citrate, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, stabilisers (sucrose acetate isobutyrate, gum arabic, glycerol ester of wood resin) and colours (tartrazine E102, brilliant blue E133). 4.0% vol.
• Smirnoff Ice Guarana is a Spanish-market list. Carbonated water, sugar, vodka, citric acid, sodium citrate, flavourings, sodium benzoate, caramel IV, sucralose, acesulfame potassium — sweetened with sugar plus two sweeteners. The SG Smirnoff Ice base (malt vs vodka) varies by market, so the SG can must be checked.
• Suntory -196 Strong Zero has no retrieved ingredient list. It is made by freezing fruit in liquid nitrogen, pulverising it and soaking it in beverage alcohol (vodka/shochu depending on market) — that is a process description from the brand's coverage, not an ingredient list, and it is not panelled as one.
• Horoyoi has no retrieved ingredient list either. Suntory's low-alcohol chu-hi is widely sold in Singapore (notably at Donki), but no verbatim list was retrieved in this pass.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 2 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.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Smirnoff Ice — Original and other flavours (Green Apple, Raspberry, Mango, Watermelon, Passionfruit) — Sold in Singapore; no verbatim SG ingredient list retrieved. US coverage describes a malt base with sugar, citric acid, sodium citrate, natural flavours and preservatives, but that is a market description, not an SG pack list.
• Bacardi Breezer — other flavours (Orange, Watermelon, Pineapple, Cranberry, Lime & Soda) — Only Lime had a retrieved (EU) list; other flavours need their own lists, and the SG base (vodka vs malt) must be confirmed from the pack.
• Suntory -196 Strong Zero — Double Lemon, Double Grape, Double Peach, Double Lime and others — Sold in Singapore, notably at Don Don Donki; no verbatim ingredient list retrieved for any flavour. ABV varies by market (9% Japan, 6% Australia for Double Lemon). Process description (frozen fruit, vodka/shochu, soda) is not an ingredient list.
• Suntory Horoyoi (Chu-Hi) — White Grape, Peach, Lemon, Grapefruit and others — Widely sold in Singapore at Donki and supermarkets; no verbatim ingredient list retrieved for any flavour.
• White Claw Hard Seltzer, Truly, Vizzy, Corona Hard Seltzer — Hard seltzers sold in Singapore; no SG pack ingredient lists retrieved.
• -196 / Strong Zero — other markets' variants — The UK/Australian versions are marketed as containing shochu in addition to vodka; the Japanese domestic version does not mention shochu. Market variants are separate rows when panelled, not merged.
• FairPrice, Cold Storage, Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee RTD ranges — Checked only through the search results above in this pass; no FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for any RTD cocktail, and the full RTD shelves were not paginated in full. Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page.

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.

No per-100 g/ml nutrition panel was verified in this pass for any panelled product, so there is no sortable nutrition table on this page yet. The ingredient panels are the comparison for this pass; figures are not estimated here.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 ml nutrition panel was verified in this pass for either panelled RTD cocktail. No nutrition table is tabled, and no figure is estimated from ABV or from another market's listing.

How to read a ready-to-drink cocktail label — the jargon, in plain English

RTD (ready-to-drink)

A pre-mixed alcoholic drink in a can or bottle — a cocktail made at the factory, not at the bar. Breezer, Smirnoff Ice, Strong Zero and Horoyoi are all RTDs.

Malt base vs spirit base

Some RTDs get their alcohol from fermented malt (like beer, without hops); others from distilled spirit (vodka, rum, shochu). The base varies by market for the same brand — Smirnoff Ice and Breezer both vary — so the SG can must be checked.

Chu-hi / chuhai

A Japanese RTD of shochu (or vodka) with soda and fruit flavouring. Strong Zero and Horoyoi are both chu-hi; Strong Zero is the strong (high-ABV) end of the range.

Sucrose acetate isobutyrate (E444) / glycerol ester of wood resin (E445)

Stabilisers that keep flavour oils suspended in the drink (clouding agents). Listed in the Breezer Lime certificate; they are not sweeteners.

Tartrazine (E102) / brilliant blue (E133)

Synthetic colours. Breezer Lime lists both — the green colour of a lime RTD is a colouring, not the lime.

Caramel IV (E150d)

A caramel colour (sulphite ammonia caramel). Listed in the Smirnoff Ice Guarana list.

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: Bacardi product certificate for Breezer Lime 4% vol (EU, via Zona, dated 11 March 2025 — flagged); Open Food Facts (Smirnoff Ice Guarana, Spanish-language entry — flagged); trade/brand coverage for the Smirnoff Ice base variation (malt vs vodka by market), Breezer India malt base, and Strong Zero / Horoyoi market descriptions (process and ABV only — no lists taken from them); Singapore retailer listing for Smirnoff Ice (4.0% vol, origin Italy — ABV/origin only, no list). No FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for any RTD cocktail in this pass. 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.