Household Ingredients Compared › Sesame Oil (Singapore)

Sesame oil: what's actually in it?

Sesame oil on a Singapore shelf is almost always one ingredient: roasted sesame seed, pressed. The differences that matter are white vs black sesame (lighter vs deeper, earthier flavour), pure oil vs flavoured oil (mala, chilli, garlic, shallot, ginger and Szechuan pepper oils are flavoured products, not pure sesame oil), and single-pressed vs blended. A bottle that says 100% pure sesame oil should list nothing else; if it lists anything else, it is not pure.

This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed, with the country of manufacture as printed, and flags where a list could not be verified.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Pure sesame oil is one ingredient. Chee Seng White, Chee Seng Black and Double Pagoda Pure all list exactly 'Roasted Sesame Seed' on their FairPrice Singapore ingredient sections, and all three state Singapore as country/place of origin.
White vs black is the seed, not a blend. White sesame oil is pressed from white sesame seed; black sesame oil from black sesame seed. Neither panelled pure oil lists anything else.
Flavoured sesame oils are a different product. Double Pagoda Mala, and Chee Seng's chilli, spicy sesame, garlic, shallot, ginger and Szechuan pepper oils, are flavoured oils. No verbatim list was retrieved for any of them in this pass, so none is panelled as a pure oil.
Imported pure oils exist but their SG packs were not transcribed. Kadoya (Japan), Ayam and Lee Kum Kee pure sesame oils are panelled from brand or Open Food Facts lists, flagged as such — the SG pack still needs a photo for each.

At a glance

Product	Pack size (as printed)	Type	First ingredient	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Chee Seng Sesame Oil — White	320ml	Pure, white	Roasted sesame seed	Singapore
Chee Seng Sesame Oil — Black	not stated	Pure, black	Roasted sesame seed	Singapore
Double Pagoda 100% Pure Sesame Oil	150ml	Pure	Roasted sesame seed	Singapore
Kadoya Pure Sesame Oil	not stated	Pure	Sesame seed oil	Not stated
Ayam Pure Sesame Oil	not stated	Pure	Oil of toasted sesame seeds	Not stated
Lee Kum Kee Pure Sesame Oil	not stated	Pure	Sesame oil	Not stated

Panelled with verbatim lists: 6 products. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below. No prices are shown: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Chee Seng Sesame Oil — White

Pack size: 320ml · Made in: Singapore (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice Singapore ingredient section): Roasted Sesame Seed.

One ingredient. FairPrice lists country/place of origin as Singapore, and the Open Food Facts SG entry (barcode 8888007100327) agrees: 'Roasted Sesame Seed', manufacturing in Singapore, Halal and Healthier Choice. Allergen: sesame Pure Origin: Singapore

Chee Seng Sesame Oil — Black

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

Ingredients (FairPrice Singapore ingredient section): Roasted Sesame Seed.

One ingredient, the same list as the white oil — the difference is the seed (black sesame), not an added ingredient. FairPrice lists country/place of origin as Singapore. Allergen: sesame Pure Origin: Singapore

Double Pagoda 100% Pure Sesame Oil

Pack size: 150ml · Made in: Singapore (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice Singapore ingredient section): Roasted Sesame Seed.

One ingredient. FairPrice describes it as '100% made of pure roasted sesame seeds', Halal and Healthier Choice, and lists country/place of origin as Singapore. The Open Food Facts SG entry (barcode 8888007100112) agrees. Double Pagoda is Chee Seng's brand — the same maker as the Chee Seng oils above, under a different label. Allergen: sesame Pure Origin: Singapore

Kadoya Pure Sesame Oil — US Open Food Facts list, SG pack not transcribed

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

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, US entry): SESAME SEED OIL.

One ingredient. Flag: the retrieved list is a US Open Food Facts entry; Kadoya is sold in Singapore (notably at Don Don Donki and Meidi-Ya), but no SG pack list was retrieved in this pass, so the SG pack still needs a photo. Do not assume the SG bottle matches the US bottle. Country of manufacture: not stated on the retrieved listing (the brand's address is Tokyo, Japan — that is the brand's address, not a printed country of manufacture, so it is not recorded as one). Allergen: sesame Pure

Ayam Pure Sesame Oil — brand site list, SG pack not transcribed

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

Ingredients (Ayam brand site): The oil of toasted sesame seeds.

One ingredient, stated as the oil of toasted sesame seeds. Flag: brand-site list (ayam.com, which lists Singapore among its markets); no SG pack transcription was retrieved, so verify on the SG pack. Country of manufacture: not stated. Allergen: sesame Pure

Lee Kum Kee Pure Sesame Oil — Open Food Facts list, SG pack not transcribed

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

Ingredients (Open Food Facts): Sesame oil.

One ingredient. Flag: Open Food Facts secondary entry; no SG pack transcription was retrieved, so verify on the SG pack. Country of manufacture: not stated. Allergen: sesame Pure

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Double Pagoda Sesame Oil — Mala — listed at FairPrice Online (origin Singapore per the listing); no verbatim ingredient list retrieved. A mala oil is flavoured (chilli / Sichuan pepper), so it must not be panelled as a pure oil without its own list.
Golden Chef 100% Pure Sesame Oil — a FairPrice top sesame-oil product; no ingredient section retrieved in this pass.
Double A 100% Sesame Oil — Black & White — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient section retrieved.
Double Elephant 100% Fragrant Sesame Oil — listed at FairPrice; no ingredient section retrieved.
Kadoya Roasted Sesame Oil (163 ml) — an Open Food Facts entry gives a French list ('Huile de Graines de Sésame', Kadoya Sesame Mills, Tokyo) that is a manufacturer address mixed into the ingredient text; not panelled as a clean SG list.
Blue Dragon Sesame Oil — UK brand list retrieved (Sesame Oil 100%, nutrition per 100 g: 895 kcal, fat 99 g, saturates 16 g, sugars 0 g); SG sale not verified, so not panelled as an SG product.
Chee Seng flavoured oils — Chilli, Spicy Sesame, Garlic, Shallot, Ginger, Szechuan Pepper — shown in Chee Seng's own range showcase; no verbatim lists retrieved for any of them.
Twin Dragon Pure Sesame Oil — Open Food Facts entry (Swedish list, product of China); SG sale not verified, not panelled as an SG product.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the sortable table are as sold, per 100 g (or per 100 ml for liquids, where the source gives per-100 ml). Click a column header to sort low to high; click again for high to low. Rows marked "not stated" always sort last — a missing figure is not zero. Per-serving-only figures are in a separate table below and are never sorted against per-100 g figures.

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.

Total vs added sugars: 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 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 Nutri-Grade is quoted or assigned on any page in this batch — no official Nutri-Grade was found printed on any of these products, and these are not drinks in the Nutri-Grade sense except where a drink is involved (none here).

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Chee Seng Sesame Oil — White	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts SG entry)	816 kcal (3,414 kJ)	0 g	90.5 g	14.2 g	0.4 g	not stated	0 mg (salt 0 g)
Ayam Pure Sesame Oil	Per 100 g, as sold (Ayam brand site)	900 kcal (3,767 kJ)	Less than 1 g	99.9 g	16.5 g	Less than 1 g	not stated	6 mg (salt 0.02 g)
Lee Kum Kee Pure Sesame Oil	Per 100 g, as sold (Open Food Facts)	867 kcal (3,630 kJ)	0 g	93.3 g	13.3 g	0 g	0 g	not stated

Observed numbers, no verdict: the three panelled per-100 g rows give energy 816–900 kcal and total fat 90.5–99.9 g — the spread is mostly a per-100 g vs per-100 ml reporting difference in the sources, not a real composition difference between pure sesame oils. Chee Seng White's Open Food Facts entry also gives a per-serving (5 ml) row (40 kcal, 4.53 g fat, 0.71 g saturated fat, salt 0 g), which is not tabled here because its carbohydrate and sugars figures were not retrieved. An Open Food Facts entry for a Chee Seng 640 ml bottle gives a salt figure of 0.2 g per 100 g, against 0 g for the 320 ml bottle — flagged as a likely database artefact, not a real difference; the SG pack must settle it.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Chee Seng Sesame Oil — Black, Double Pagoda 100% Pure Sesame Oil, Kadoya Pure Sesame Oil. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here.

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

Roasted sesame seed: The seed is roasted before pressing, which gives the oil its dark amber colour and nutty aroma. Unroasted (cold-pressed) sesame oil is pale and mild, and is a different product.
Single-pressed: The oil is pressed once from the roasted seed, with no second extraction. Double Pagoda's pack states this; it is a process claim, not an extra ingredient.
Pure / 100% pure: The bottle contains only sesame oil. If a 'pure' oil lists a second oil (for example soybean oil), it is a blend, however the front label reads.
Flavoured sesame oil: Sesame oil with chilli, garlic, shallot, ginger or Sichuan pepper added for flavour. It is not pure sesame oil, and its ingredient list will be longer.
Sesame allergy: Sesame is a declared allergen. Every pure sesame oil here is 100% sesame, so the allergen flag is the product itself, not a trace.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. The products above 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.

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: FairPrice Singapore ingredient sections (Chee Seng White, Chee Seng Black, Double Pagoda Pure); FairPrice sesame-oil category page (top products: Double Pagoda Pure, Chee Seng Black/White, Golden Chef); Open Food Facts SG entries (Chee Seng White 8888007100327, Double Pagoda 8888007100112, Chee Seng 640 ml 8888007100488); Ayam brand site (ayam.com); Open Food Facts (Kadoya, Lee Kum Kee, Twin Dragon, Blue Dragon UK). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so its shelf could not be panelled from its site. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Nutrition: 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.