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Rice: what's actually in it?

For dry rice, the short answer is usually: just rice — but which rice, and whether it is polished, unpolished or blended, is the whole comparison. A bag labelled “fragrant rice” is not automatically Thai Hom Mali, a brown rice is not automatically 100% brown rice, and a mixed rice is a blend with percentages that matter. This page does not give a health score. It shows the variety/blend as printed, and separates dry rice from Little Farms' ready-to-heat cooked rice, which is a different product with added water, salt and oil.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Most single-variety dry rice is one ingredient. SongHe AAA, Royal Umbrella Hom Mali and SongHe Shokaku japonica are each printed as 100% of one variety.
• Blends are where the label matters. SongHe Noble Brown is 50% red rice / 50% jasmine brown rice; SongHe 8020 is 80% fragrant rice / 20% red rice. Do not read either as “brown rice” alone.
• Brown means unpolished, not a different species. Jasmine brown rice is jasmine rice with the bran layer kept; red cargo rice keeps its red bran. “Unmilled and unpolished” on a catalogue listing means the same thing in plain English.
• Ready-to-heat rice is not dry rice. Little Farms' cooked pouches list rice plus water, salt and olive oil. Compare them with other cooked pouches, not with a 5kg dry bag.
• “New crop” is a harvest claim, not a variety. SongHe AAA New Crop is still printed as 100% Thai Hom Mali rice kernels; new crop says when it was harvested, not that it is a different grain.

At a glance

Re-audit 5 November 2026: 8 products added (7 PaddyKing lines + Golden Chef Royale), taking panelled products from 12 to 20. PaddyKing compositions are FairPrice “Key Information” composition statements, not separate ingredient sections — flagged on each panel. Seen-but-not-verified grew with new FairPrice names found in the same inventory (New Moon, Double FP New Crop, FairPrice Thai Rice Blend / Thai Red / Thai Brown, Arawana Japonica, The Little Rice Company, Naturel, Chang Organic Hom Mali Brown, SongHe Noble Berry). This page is still not 100% complete: FairPrice house-brand and Golden Phoenix/Peony compositions were not retrievable from FairPrice product pages in this pass, and Giant/Sheng Siong/Cold Storage/Donki/Mustafa/Meidi-Ya/Le Petit Depot/RedMart ranges still need an in-store check.

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

Single-variety white rice — jasmine / Hom Mali

Brown, red and mixed rice

Japonica / short-grain and glutinous rice

PaddyKing and Golden Chef Royale — added in the 5 November 2026 re-audit

PaddyKing is a FairPrice-listed rice brand whose compositions are given in the FairPrice product pages' “Key Information” descriptions rather than in a separate ingredient section. The percentages below are quoted from those FairPrice descriptions, not from a pack photograph — check the pack before publishing.

Little Farms — ready-to-heat cooked rice (a different category)

These are cooked pouches sold at Little Farms, not dry bags. They are panelled here because Little Farms was added to the channel list, and because a shopper comparing “rice” across channels will meet them — but they must not be compared gram-for-gram with dry rice.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• FairPrice house brand: FairPrice Gold Thai Hom Mali Superior Fragrant Rice, FairPrice Jasmine Fragrant Rice, FairPrice Thai Hom Mali Superior Fragrant Rice, FairPrice Premium Japonica Rice – Short Grain, FairPrice AAA Golden Royal Dragon Thai White Fragrant Rice — listed on FairPrice category pages; no full ingredient/composition section retrieved in this pass.
• Other FairPrice-listed brands: Double FP Thai Hom Mali Premium Quality Fragrant Rice, Golden Phoenix Thai Hom Mali, Golden Peony Jasmine Fragrant Rice, Golden Eagle Thai Brown Rice / Fresh Red Brown Rice, Taj Basmati Rice, Supreme Gold 1121 Basmati Rice, Royal India Basmati Rice – Extra Long, SongHe Glutinous Rice, SongHe New Crop Rice (non-AAA listing), SongHe Noble Red Rice — listed; composition sections not retrieved.
• PSC/Topseller catalogue, other lines: Royal Umbrella Short Grain Rice, Red Cargo Rice, Hom Mali Brown Rice, Harmuni Thai Hom Mali, Gitangkim Superior Fragrant Rice, Okome Japonica / Shortgrain / Premium Calrose Rice, Setsujumai Calrose — catalogue names only in this pass.
• Little Farms dry rice: La Carreta Paella Spanish Rice, Arborio Rice, Arros De Valencia Rice – Cebolla — listed in Little Farms Grains, Rice & Beans; no ingredient sections retrieved. Little Farms Ready-to-Heat Shortgrain Rice — listed; no ingredient list retrieved (do not assume it matches the Fragrant White pouch).
• Other channels: Giant, Sheng Siong, Cold Storage, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot and RedMart dry-rice ranges; FairPrice “The Rice Shop” Japanese lines (Sakura Japonica, Hokkaido Yukigozen, Hokkaido Sansanmaru, Akita Komachi Musenmai, Ibaraki Niji no Kirameki, Ishinomaki Hitomebore, Kinmemai Better Brown Rice, Koala Japonica) — names seen on category pages, compositions not retrieved. Shopee Japgokbap 17-grain Korean cereal rice — seller description lists 17 grains/beans, but that is a seller description, not a retailer ingredient section or pack list, so it is not panelled.
• Parallel imports / Shopee / Lazada: India Gate, Laila and other basmati lines sold via marketplace sellers — not verified from a Singapore-facing ingredient section in this pass.
• Re-audit 5 November 2026 — new names seen at FairPrice, compositions not retrieved: New Moon Premium Fragrant Rice (Thai Hom Mali) and New Moon Premium Fragrant Organic Rice (Thai Hom Mali); Double FP Thai Hom Mali Premium Quality Fragrant Rice – New Crop; FairPrice Thai Rice Blend, FairPrice Thai Red Unpolished Rice, FairPrice Thai Brown Unpolished Rice; Arawana Japonica Rice; The Little Rice Company Wholegrain Brown Rice – Low GI; Naturel Organic Rice – Mixed Brown and Red; Chang Thai Organic Hom Mali Brown Rice – Crystal; SongHe Noble Berry Rice (1kg, listed; blend composition not retrieved). FairPrice product pages opened for Golden Phoenix Thai Hom Mali in this pass carried no ingredient/composition section, so Golden Phoenix stays unverified despite being a bestseller.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

How to read this table. Figures are per 100 g (or per 100 ml for beer) only where the source gives per-100 figures. Where a source gives per-serving figures only, the row is quoted exactly as printed and the Basis column says “per serving, not per 100 g/ml” — those rows are not converted to per-100 and must not be compared gram-for-gram with per-100 rows. “Not stated” means the source retrieved did not give that column; it is not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours. Salt = sodium × 2.5, so the Sodium column shows sodium as printed with the salt equivalent in brackets. Sodium is not salt, and salt is not sodium.

Most Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is therefore not labelled “added sugar” here; the ingredient list on the page remains the evidence for whether sugar (or sucrose, glucose syrup, cane sugar) was added. No Nutri-Grade is assigned here and no health score, ranking or “best/worst” verdict is given — the numbers below are observations only, and the highest/lowest figures named in the text are just that: the highest and lowest numbers observed in this table.

Dry rice panels are mostly per-serving only on FairPrice, and cooked pouches are a different basis from dry rice: the cooked pouch below is per 100 g of the cooked product as sold, while the SongHe AAA row is per 50 g serving as printed. Do not compare them gram-for-gram, and do not compare either with a cooked-rice figure unless the basis matches. Sugars are not stated on the FairPrice SongHe AAA section retrieved, so no sugars figure is invented for it.

Sugar/sodium observations (numbers only): the cooked Basmati Brown pouch shows 0 g sugars and 400 mg sodium per 100 g; the SongHe AAA serving shows 5 mg sodium per 50 g serving, with sugars not stated. Because the bases differ (cooked pouch per 100 g vs dry serving), these are not a like-for-like pair.

Seen but not verified (nutrition) — the following panelled products have no verified nutrition panel in this pass, so no figures are shown for them. Do not estimate or borrow figures from another variant:

• SongHe Jasmine Brown Rice — the FairPrice page retrieved in this pass carried no nutritional-data section
• SongHe Noble Brown Rice
• SongHe 8020 Mixed Fragrant + Red Rice
• SongHe Shokaku Premium Sushi Rice
• Royal Umbrella Thai Hom Mali Rice
• Royal Umbrella Thai Jasmine Rice
• Royal Umbrella Thai Fragrant Brown Rice
• Royal Umbrella Thai Mixed Rice
• Royal Umbrella Thai Glutinous Rice
• Little Farms Ready-to-Heat Homestyle — Fragrant White Rice
• PaddyKing Thai Hom Mali (New Crop) Rice — re-audit addition; no nutrition panel retrieved
• PaddyKing Thai Red Cargo Rice — re-audit addition; no nutrition panel retrieved
• PaddyKing Thai Mixed Jasmine Rice — re-audit addition; no nutrition panel retrieved
• PaddyKing Thai Brown Rice — re-audit addition; no nutrition panel retrieved
• PaddyKing Thai Tri-Color Wholegrain Rice — re-audit addition; no nutrition panel retrieved
• PaddyKing Sushi Rice — re-audit addition; no nutrition panel retrieved
• PaddyKing USA Calrose Rice — re-audit addition; no nutrition panel retrieved
• Golden Chef Royale Thai Hom Mali Fragrant Rice — re-audit addition; FairPrice page retrieved carried a nutritional-data section but only a phosphorous figure was visible in the retrieved snippet, so no nutrition row is shown

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

Hom Mali / jasmine

Thai fragrant long-grain rice. “Hom Mali” is the Thai name for the jasmine variety; the two names on different packs can mean the same grain.

Basmati

A different long-grain fragrant variety, traditionally from India/Pakistan. “1121” is a basmati variety/grade name, not a brand.

Japonica / short-grain

Short, plump grains that cook soft and slightly sticky — the sushi/onigiri type. Not the same as jasmine, even when both are white.

Brown rice

Rice with the bran layer kept (unpolished). Jasmine brown rice is still jasmine rice, just unpolished. It is not a separate species.

Red / cargo rice

Rice with a red bran layer kept. “Cargo” in this context means unpolished/bran-on, not freight.

Glutinous / sticky rice

Rice that cooks very sticky because of its starch type. It contains no gluten — “glutinous” refers to stickiness, not wheat gluten.

Polished / milled vs unpolished

Polished (white) rice has the bran and germ milled off; unpolished (brown/red/black) rice keeps them. The variety name stays the same either way.

New crop

Recently harvested rice, as opposed to older stored stock. A harvest-time claim, not a variety or a blend.

Parboiled / sella

Rice steamed in the husk before milling. It cooks firmer and less sticky. Seen in basmati listings; no SG parboiled panel was verified in this pass.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not a taste or cooking test. “Low GI” and similar catalogue claims are the sellers' claims, not verified here.
• Not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; compositions change less often, but still change.
• Not complete. The seen-but-not-verified list above is long because rice has many parallel and house-brand lines — that is stated openly, not hidden.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice product ingredient sections (SongHe AAA, Jasmine Brown, Noble Brown, 8020, Shokaku); PSC Corporation catalogue 2025/2026 (Royal Umbrella lines); Royal Umbrella supplier specification via Superior Foodservice; Manning Impex distributor listing (glutinous); Open Food Facts (Thai Jasmine, flagged as non-SG); Little Farms product pages (ready-to-heat pouches; Grains, Rice & Beans category). Channels checked: FairPrice (incl. Finest/Xtra/Online), Cold Storage, Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, RedMart, Lazada, Shopee Singapore, Little Farms. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Where a full composition could not be verified, the page says so instead of filling the gap.