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Sliced cheese: what's actually in it?

The short answer is: it depends on which kind of slice you buy, and the front of the pack does not always make that clear. A processed cheese slice is cheese that has been melted and re-formed with water, butter or milk solids and emulsifying salts, so it melts smoothly and keeps longer. A natural sliced cheese is simply cheese that has been sliced — milk, salt, culture and rennet, and usually nothing else. Both are sold side by side in the sliced-cheese chiller, sometimes under the same brand.

This page does not give a health score, a ranking, or a “best” pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed, flags cheese content where the pack or retailer prints a percentage, and flags emulsifiers, colours and allergens, so you can compare like with like.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Processed slices are mostly, but not entirely, cheese. Where a percentage is printed, it is typically around 50–65% cheese — the rest is water, butter, milk solids and emulsifying salts. Président is the outlier in the other direction: its Burger Cheddar prints 33% cheeses, of which only 5% is cheddar, and its Sandwich Cheddar prints 5% cheddar; both start with reconstituted skimmed milk, not cheese.
Natural slices are the short-list end of this page. Emborg Natural, Tradition Gouda, Food For Friends, Lindahls and Singletons slices list milk, salt, culture and a rennet/coagulant — and, for red cheddar, a colour (annatto/carotene). No emulsifying salts, no added water, no butter in the list.
The cheapest-looking difference is often palm oil, not cheese. Emborg Perfect Slices — the budget processed slice at FairPrice — start with skimmed milk concentrate and vegetable fat (palm oil), with cheese at only 18% in the Malaysian listing. That list is flagged as non-Singapore below; the Singapore pack must be checked before publishing.
Arla sells two different kinds of slice in Singapore. The 150g natural slices (Cheddar, Mozzarella) list milk, salt, culture and rennet; the Burger Cheese family pack is a processed-style slice built on skimmed milk concentrate and palm oil, with cheese third. They are panelled as separate products in this re-audit (5 November 2026).
“Cheese slices” and “natural cheese slices” are not the same claim. Cowhead sells both: a processed Cheddar slice (cheese, water, butter, milk solids, emulsifiers) and a Natural range (Cheddar, Emmental, Gouda, Mozzarella) whose Singapore ingredient lists could not be verified in this pass, so the Natural range is in the seen-but-not-verified appendix, not panelled.
Low-fat / light slices are still thinly covered. SCS Reduced Fat is now panelled in this re-audit (5 November 2026), but its list comes from a Malaysian retailer for the same product, not from a Singapore pack — see the panel. Chesdale Lite (45% cheese, New Zealand listing) is still not panelled as a Singapore product. Do not assume a light slice is the same list with less fat.
Added sugar is not the issue here. None of the panelled sliced cheeses lists added sugar or sucrose. The sugars on a nutrition panel for plain sliced cheese are lactose, naturally present in milk. Flavoured slices are the exception to watch: Singletons Black Pepper Cheddar adds cracked black pepper (and a preservative), and Food For Friends Pepper Jack adds jalapeño peppers — flavourings, not sweeteners.

At a glance

Product	Type as printed	First ingredient	Cheese % where printed	Emulsifiers / colours as printed	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
FairPrice Cheese Slices	Processed	Cheese	Not printed (Open Food Facts estimate 53.6%)	E331, E339; E160b	250g (OFF entry; FairPrice also sells 200g and 3 × 200g)	not stated
Cowhead Cheese Slices — Cheddar (processed)	Processed	Cheese	Not printed (estimate 55.6%)	E331, E339, E452; E160b	500g	not stated
Anchor Cheddar Cheese Slices	Processed	Cheese	Not printed	E341, E331, E339, E322; E160B; E460 thickener	3 × 200g (12 per pack)	New Zealand
SCS High Calcium Sliced Cheese — Original	Processed	Cheese	Not printed	E331, E339; soy lecithin; no colour printed	200g (10 per pack)	Australia
Chesdale Cheddar Cheese Slices — Original	Processed	Cheese	Not printed on SG listing	E331, E339, E322, E460; E160b	2 × 250g	New Zealand
Kraft Hi-Calcium Singles	Processed	Cow's milk	Not printed	Emulsifiers (unnumbered on SG listing); Vitamin D3	250g (12 per pack)	Australia
Président Burger Cheddar	Processed	Reconstituted skimmed cow's milk	33% cheeses, of which 5% cheddar	E452i, E450iii; E160b; E407	200g (10 per pack)	France
Président Sandwich Cheddar	Processed	Reconstituted skimmed cow's milk	5% cheddar	E452i, E450iii; E160b; E407	200g (10 per pack)	France
Président Emmental Toast	Processed	Reconstituted skimmed cow's milk	Cheeses, of which 5% emmental	E452, E450; E160a; E407	200g (10 per pack)	not stated
The Laughing Cow Burger (Cheddar)	Processed	Cheeses	Not printed	E331, E339; no colour printed	200g	Australia
The Laughing Cow Toast	Processed	Cheeses	Not printed	E331, E339; no colour printed	200g	not stated
Emborg Perfect Slices (Cheddar/Sandwich) — non-SG list, see panel	Processed	Skimmed milk concentrate	18% cheese (MY listing)	E452(i); E160a	200g	Austria (FairPrice SG value-pack origin; panelled list is Malaysian)
Emborg Natural Gouda	Natural	Pasteurised cow's milk	— (cheese itself)	None printed	150g (8 per pack)	Germany
Emborg Natural Cheddar	Natural	Cow's milk	—	None in brand main-ingredients list	150g (8 per pack)	not stated
Emborg Natural Edam — non-SG brand page, see panel	Natural	Cow's milk	—	None printed	150g (8 per pack)	not stated
Emborg Natural Swiss — non-SG brand page, see panel	Natural	Cow's milk	—	None printed	150g	not stated
Tradition Sliced Cheese — Gouda	Natural	Pasteurised cow's milk	—	Colour carotene	not stated	not stated
Food For Friends Cheddar Mild	Natural	Pasteurised cow's milk	—	None (no colour printed)	160g	Singapore
Food For Friends Cheddar Sharp	Natural	Pasteurised cow's milk	—	Annatto colour	160g	Singapore
Food For Friends Provolone	Natural	Milk	—	None printed	160g	Singapore
Food For Friends Pepper Jack — secondary list, see panel	Natural, flavoured	Pasteurised cow's milk	—	None printed; jalapeño peppers	160g	USA (guide cited on page; FairPrice origin field says Singapore — see notes)
Lindahls High Protein Gouda	Natural	Milk	—	None printed	125g	not stated
Singletons Mild Red Cheddar (Slices)	Natural	Pasteurised cow's milk	—	Annatto	150g	not stated
Singletons Black Pepper Cheddar (Slices)	Natural, flavoured	Cheddar cheese	—	Potassium sorbate preservative; cracked black pepper	150g	not stated
Arla Burger Cheese Sliced Cheese Family Pack — Cheddar — FairPrice section appears truncated, see panel	Processed	Skimmed milk concentrate	Not printed	None listed in the retrieved section; palm oil	400g	Austria
Arla Cheese Slices — Mozzarella (150g) — non-SG list, see panel	Natural	Pasteurised milk	—	None printed	150g	not stated
Arla Cheese Slices — Cheddar (150g) — non-SG list, see panel	Natural	Milk	—	None printed	150g	not stated
SCS High Calcium Sliced Cheese — Reduced Fat — non-SG list, see panel	Processed	Cheese	Not printed	E331, E339, E452; E160b	400g (MY list; SG pack is 200g — see notes)	Austria

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only. “—” means the product is cheese, so a cheese percentage does not apply in the same way as for a processed slice.

Processed cheese slices

The pattern is consistent: cheese first (except Président and Kraft, below), then water, then butter and/or milk solids, then emulsifying salts, salt, a preservative and usually a colour. The differences that matter are the cheese percentage where printed, whether palm/vegetable fat replaces butter, and whether soy lecithin appears.

FairPrice Cheese Slices (house brand)

Pack size: 250g (OFF entry; FairPrice also sells 200g and 3 × 200g) · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients: Cheese (pasteurised milk, salt, Lactococcus lactis, rennet), Water, Butter (cream, water, salt), Milk solids, Emulsifiers [E331(iii), E339(iii)], Salt, Acidity regulator (E330), Preservative (E200) and Colouring [E160b(ii)].

Open Food Facts listing for the 250 g FairPrice product; FairPrice confirms the product name and sliced-cheese listing. Open Food Facts estimates cheese at 53.6% — that is an estimate from the database, not a printed percentage, so this page does not present it as a pack claim. Allergen: milk Processed

What to notice: the cheese itself is defined in brackets (milk, salt, culture, rennet) — the classic processed-slice structure. Butter, not vegetable fat, is the added fat here.

Cowhead Cheese Slices — Cheddar (processed)

Pack size: 500g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients: Cheese (Pasteurised Milk, Salt, Starter Cultures, Enzyme), Water, Butter, Milk Solids, Emulsifiers (E331, E339, E452), Salt, Acidity Regulator (E330), Preservative (E200), Natural Colour (E160b).

Open Food Facts Singapore listing (barcode 8888440000024, countries sold: Singapore, origin of ingredients: Australia). Do not confuse this with Cowhead's separate Natural range — see the appendix. Allergen: milk Processed

Anchor Cheddar Cheese Slices

Pack size: 3 × 200g (12 per pack) · Made in: New Zealand (as printed)

Ingredients: Cheese (Cow's Milk, Salt, Cultures and Enzymes), Water, Milk Solids, Non-Fat Milk Solids, Salt, Emulsifiers (E341, E331, E339, E322), Acidity Regulator (E330), Thickener / Stabiliser (E460), Preservative (E200), Colouring (E160B).

FairPrice ingredient section, origin New Zealand, Halal. This is the longest emulsifier list among the mainstream processed slices panelled, and the only one here to add E460 as a thickener/stabiliser alongside the emulsifiers. Allergen: milk Processed Origin: New Zealand

SCS High Calcium Sliced Cheese — Original

Pack size: 200g (10 per pack) · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients: Cheese [Pasturised Milk, Salt, Culture, Enzyme (Rennet)], Water, Butter (Cream, Water, Salt), Milk Solids, Emulsifiers (E331, E339), Salt, Preservative (E200), Acidity Regulator (E330), Lecithin (from Soy).

FairPrice ingredient section, origin Australia. Note the spelling “Pasturised” as printed on the FairPrice listing. Allergen: milk, soy Processed

What to notice: SCS is the only mainstream processed slice here whose list ends with soy lecithin — the anti-stick/lecithin flag that also appears on Bega's processed slices (not panelled, see appendix). No colour is printed in this list.

Chesdale Cheddar Cheese Slices — Original

Pack size: 2 × 250g · Made in: New Zealand (as printed)

Ingredients: Cheese (Cow's Milk, Salt, Cultures and Calves/Vegetarian Rennet), Water, Milk Solids, Minerals (Calcium Phosphate), Emulsifiers (E331, E339, E322, E460), Non Fat Milk Solids, Salt, Preservative (E200), Colour (E160b). Contains milk and soy products.

FairPrice ingredient section, origin New Zealand. FairPrice describes it as processed from block cheddar and “offering 2x more calcium than regular cheese” — that is the brand's claim, quoted as such, not a verified nutrition comparison on this page. Allergen: milk, soy (as printed) Processed

Cheese-percentage note: the Singapore listing does not print a cheese percentage. New Zealand/Australian listings for Chesdale slices print 60–65% cheese depending on variant — those are not quoted here as the Singapore pack figure, and the other Chesdale variants (Lite, Smoked, Edam, Tasty, Chives) are in the appendix for the same reason.

Kraft Hi-Calcium Singles Cheese

Pack size: 250g (12 per pack) · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients: Cow's Milk, Milk Solid Non Fat, Butter, Acidity Regulators (E331iii, E270), Emulsifiers, Salt, Preservative (E200), Cow's Rennet, Vitamin D3.

FairPrice ingredient section, origin Australia, 12 individually wrapped slices. FairPrice's additional text says the slices are “made from natural milk” and contain “no artificial flavoring or coloring” — again, the brand's wording, and note that this list, unlike the other processed slices here, does not start with “Cheese” as an ingredient but with cow's milk and milk solids. Allergen: milk Processed

What to notice: do not confuse this Australian Kraft Singles list with the US Kraft Singles list (cheddar cheese, skim milk, milkfat, whey, etc.), which is a different product. The US list is not quoted on this page.

Président Cheese Slices — Burger Cheddar

Pack size: 200g (10 per pack) · Made in: France (as printed)

Ingredients: Reconstituted Skimmed Cow's Milk, 33% Cheeses [cheeses (Milk, Salt, Starters, Preservative: Egg Lysozyme), Cheddar 5%], Butter, Whey, Milk Proteins, Emulsifying Salts (E452i, E450iii), Thickener (E407), Salt, Preservative (E202), Colour (E160b).

FairPrice ingredient section, origin France. Allergen: milk; egg (lysozyme, as printed in the cheese definition) Processed

What to notice: this is the most diluted cheese content on the page. The first ingredient is reconstituted skimmed milk, total cheeses are 33%, and cheddar itself is only 5% of the product. “With real cheddar” on the front is true — and, on this list, small.

Président Cheese Slices — Sandwich Cheddar

Pack size: 200g (10 per pack) · Made in: France (as printed)

Ingredients: Reconstituted Skimmed Cow's Milk, Cheeses (5% Cheddar), Butter, Whey, Milk Proteins, Emulsifying Salts (E452i, E450iii), Thickener (E407), Salt, Preservative (E202), Colour (E160b), Anhydrous Dairy Fat. May contain egg. This product contains milk and milk products.

FairPrice ingredient section, origin France. The FairPrice list does not give a total-cheeses percentage for this variant, only the 5% cheddar figure — this page does not borrow the Burger variant's 33% figure for it. Allergen: milk; may contain egg Processed

Président Cheese Slices — Emmental Toast

Pack size: 200g (10 per pack) · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients: Reconstituted skimmed cow's milk, cheeses (milk) of which emmental 5%, butter (milk), whey (milk), milk proteins, emulsifying salts (E452, E450), thickener (E407), salt, acidity regulator (E330), preservative (E202), colouring (E160a).

Open Food Facts Singapore listing for “Gourmet Toast with Emmental” (Président, 200 g × 10); FairPrice confirms the Singapore listing name “President Cheese Slices — Emmental Toast”. Same structure as the Cheddar variants: reconstituted skimmed milk first, emmental at 5%. The Open Food Facts allergen line also lists eggs — consistent with egg lysozyme in the cheese definition for the Burger variant, but this page does not add an egg allergen claim beyond what the quoted list shows; check the Singapore pack. Allergen: milk Processed

The Laughing Cow Cheese Slices — Burger (Cheddar)

Pack size: 200g · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients: Cheeses, Water, Butter, Milk Solid, Emulsifiers [Sodium Citrates (331) and Sodium Phosphates (339)], Salt, Acidity Regulator [Citric Acid (330), Preservative (Sorbic Acid (200)]. Contains: Milk.

FairPrice ingredient section, origin Australia. Shorter than most processed lists here — no colour, no thickener, no soy lecithin printed. Allergen: milk Processed

The Laughing Cow Cheese Slices — Toast

Pack size: 200g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients: Cheeses, Water, Butter, Milk Solids, Emulsifiers: Sodium Citrates (331) and Sodium Phosphates (339), Milk Proteins, Salt, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid (330), Preservative: Sorbic Acid (200). Contains: Milk.

FairPrice ingredient section. The Toast variant adds milk proteins to the Burger variant's list; otherwise the two are near-identical. Allergen: milk Processed

Emborg Perfect Slices (Cheddar / Sandwich) — non-Singapore list, verify on the SG pack before publishing

Pack size: 200g · Made in: Austria (FairPrice SG value-pack origin; panelled list is Malaysian) (as printed)

Ingredients (Malaysian retail listing, Lotus's / Aeon Malaysia, for Emborg Perfect Slices Sandwich 200 g): Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Vegetable Fat (Palm Oil, RSPO), Cheese 18% (Pasteurized Cow's Milk, Salt, Lactic Culture, Microbial Rennet, Colours (E160a Carotenes, E160b Annatto Extracts)), Milk Protein, Emulsifier (E452 (i) Sodium Polyphosphate), Salt, Acidity Regulators (E500 (ii) Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate, E270 Lactic Acid (L-, D- and DI-)), Colour (E160a (i) ß-Carotene (Synthetic)). Contains Acidity Regulators and Emulsifier as Permitted Food Conditioners and Permitted Colouring Substances.

FairPrice confirms the Singapore listing (“Emborg Sliced Cheese — Perfect Slices (Cheddar)”), origin Austria on the FairPrice value-pack listing, but the FairPrice product page retrieved in this pass did not show an ingredient section — so this panel quotes the Malaysian listing and flags it as such. It is included, with the flag, because it is the clearest example on this page of a slice built on vegetable fat rather than butter, and of a low printed cheese percentage. Allergen: milk (expected — confirm on SG pack) Processed

What to notice: cheese is the third ingredient group and only 18% of the product. If the Singapore pack differs, the Singapore pack wins and this panel must be replaced, not silently kept.

Arla Burger Cheese Sliced Cheese Family Pack — Cheddar — FairPrice ingredient section as retrieved appears truncated

Pack size: 400g · Made in: Austria (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section, as retrieved 5 November 2026): Skimmed Milk Concerntrate, Palm Oil, Cheese, Water, Milk Protein. Allergens: Contain Milk.

FairPrice Singapore listing, origin Austria, Halal, imported by Trade-Pro Food Distribution Pte Ltd. FairPrice's key information calls it the “cheapest European made processed sliced cheese” and says it melts well on burgers and toasties. Allergen: milk Processed Origin: Austria

What to notice: this is a different product from Arla's 150g natural slices below — skimmed milk concentrate and palm oil come before cheese, so it belongs with the processed slices, not the natural ones. The FairPrice section as retrieved lists only five items and stops at milk protein: no emulsifier, salt, acidity regulator or colour is shown, although Arla's own Burger Slices lists for other markets add emulsifying salt (E452), salt, sodium hydrogen carbonate, lactic acid and a colour preparation. The section therefore looks truncated rather than complete, and this panel quotes only what FairPrice showed — do not treat the five items as the full pack list until a Singapore pack is photographed. Spelling “Concerntrate” is as printed on the FairPrice page.

Nutrition not tabled: FairPrice's nutritional data for this product as retrieved reads Energy 739 kcal, Total Fat 81.5 g, Saturated Fat 52 g, Protein 0.6 g per 100 g — figures that are not plausible for a cheese slice (a slice at 81.5% fat with 0.6% protein) and that conflict with Arla's own Burger Slices nutrition. Those figures are not used in the nutrition section; they are recorded here as a retailer data error to be resolved from the pack.

SCS High Calcium Sliced Cheese — Reduced Fat — non-Singapore list, verify on the SG pack before publishing

Pack size: 400g (MY list; SG pack is 200g — see notes) · Made in: Austria (as printed)

Ingredients (Malaysian retail listing, myAEON2go, for SCS Slice Cheese Reduced Fat 20's, 400 g): Cheese (pasteurised milk, salt, culture, enzyme (Rennet)), Water, Milk solids, Emulsifiers (E331, E339, E452), Salt, Acidity regulator (E330), Preservative (E200), Colour (E160b).

FairPrice Singapore confirms the Singapore listing (“SCS High Calcium Sliced Cheese — Reduced Fat”, 200 g, Halal), but no FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for it in this pass, so this panel quotes the Malaysian listing and flags it as such. SCS Dairy's own product page (scsdairy.com) describes the Reduced Fat slice as crafted in Europe from pasteurised milk, origin Austria, but gives no ingredient list. Allergen: milk (expected — confirm on SG pack) Processed

What to notice: compared with SCS Original above, this list drops butter and soy lecithin, adds E452 to the emulsifiers and adds a colour (E160b) that the Original list does not print. That is a different list, not the Original list with less fat — which is exactly why the Original list must not be assumed to apply to the Reduced Fat variant. If the Singapore pack differs from the Malaysian listing, the Singapore pack wins and this panel must be replaced.

Natural sliced cheese

These lists are short for a reason: the slice is the cheese. The only extras are a colour for red/orange cheddar (annatto, E160b, or carotene, E160a), a firming agent in some Emborg specifications, and — for flavoured slices — the flavouring ingredient itself.

Emborg Natural Slices — Gouda

Pack size: 150g (8 per pack) · Made in: Germany (as printed)

Ingredients: Pasteurised Cow's Milk, Salt, Lactic Culture, Microbial Rennet.

FairPrice ingredient section, origin Germany, Halal. Four ingredients, no emulsifier, no colour, no preservative printed. Allergen: milk Natural

Emborg Natural Slices — Cheddar

Pack size: 150g (8 per pack) · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (brand main-ingredients list): Cow's milk, salt, lactic culture, microbial rennet.

Emborg Singapore official product page for Natural Cheddar Slices (“Natural cheese made from cow's milk”, “Made in Europe”, “Available in Asia”). FairPrice confirms the Singapore listing (“Emborg Natural Slices Cheddar”). Note: Emborg's page gives “main ingredients”, not a full pack transcription — the panel is worded that way deliberately. Allergen: milk Natural

Emborg Natural Slices — Edam — brand page is not Singapore-specific, verify on the SG pack

Pack size: 150g (8 per pack) · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (brand main-ingredients list): Cow's milk, salt, lactic culture, microbial rennet.

Emborg official product page for Natural Edam Slices (Asia/Oceania versions carry the same main-ingredients list); Cold Storage's Singapore cheese listing confirms “Emborg Cheese Slices Edam 8 × 150 g” is sold in Singapore. No Singapore ingredient section was retrieved for this variant in this pass. Allergen: milk Natural

Emborg Natural Slices — Swiss — brand page is not Singapore-specific, verify on the SG pack

Pack size: 150g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients: Pasteurized Cow's Milk, Salt, Lactic Culture, Microbial Rennet.

Emborg official page for Swiss Cheese Slices (same main-ingredients pattern as the other Natural slices); a secondary listing gives the identical four-ingredient list. A supplier specification for Emborg Swiss-style sliced cheese also lists pasteurised cow's milk 97.7%, salt 1.5%, lactic culture 0.6%, calcium chloride (E509, noted as a processing aid, “not to be labelled”) 0.1% and microbial rennet 0.1% — included here as background, not as the pack list, because E509 is described in that specification as not to be labelled. Allergen: milk Natural

Tradition Sliced Cheese — Gouda

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

Ingredients: Pasteurised Cow's Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes (Animal), Colour Carotene. Contains milk.

FairPrice ingredient section. Note “Enzymes (Animal)” — unlike Emborg's microbial rennet, this rennet is animal-derived as printed. Allergen: milk Natural

Food For Friends Cheese Sliced — Cheddar Mild

Pack size: 160g · Made in: Singapore (as printed)

Ingredients: Pasteurized Cow's Milk, Starter Cultures, Salt and Coagulating Enzyme from Mucor Miehei.

FairPrice ingredient section, origin Singapore as listed (the brand describes the cheese as 100% natural, made from milk from California dairy farms — the FairPrice “country/place of origin” field and the brand's milk-origin description are different things, and this page does not merge them). Allergen: milk Natural

Food For Friends Cheese Sliced — Cheddar Sharp

Pack size: 160g · Made in: Singapore (as printed)

Ingredients: Pasteurized Cow's Milk, Starter Cultures, Salt, Coagulating Enzyme from Mucor Miehei and Annatto Color.

FairPrice ingredient section. The only difference from the Mild variant in the list is the annatto colour — the orange colour of sharp/red cheddar, not a flavouring. Allergen: milk Natural

Food For Friends Cheese Sliced — Provolone

Pack size: 160g · Made in: Singapore (as printed)

Ingredients: Milk, Salt, Rennet, Lactic Ferments.

FairPrice ingredient section. The shortest natural list on this page, in a different word order (rennet before ferments) but the same four components. Allergen: milk Natural

Food For Friends Cheese Sliced — Pepper Jack — secondary list, verify on the SG pack

Pack size: 160g · Made in: USA (guide cited on page; FairPrice origin field says Singapore — see notes) (as printed)

Ingredients (secondary Malaysian guide listing for Food For Friends Sliced Pepper Jack): Pasteurized Cow's Milk, Jalapeno Peppers, Starter Culture, Salt, Acetic Acid and Coagulating Enzymes. Country of origin: USA (as given in that guide).

FairPrice confirms the Singapore listing (160 g, Halal), but no FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for this variant in this pass, so the list above is flagged as secondary and non-Singapore. It is panelled, with the flag, because it is the only jalapeño-flavoured natural slice found with a list — and because the jalapeño is the second ingredient, not a trace flavouring. Allergen: milk Natural, flavoured

Lindahls High Protein Gouda Cheese Slices

Pack size: 125g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients: Milk, Salt, Cultures (Milk), Vegetarian Coagulant.

FairPrice ingredient section (also on Shopee Singapore via a Singapore seller, with the identical list). FairPrice's description says 38 g protein per pack — a brand claim about the product, not an ingredient. The “high protein” here comes from the cheese itself, not from an added protein powder: no protein concentrate appears in the list. Allergen: milk Natural

Singletons & Co Mild Red Cheddar (Slices)

Pack size: 150g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients: Pasteurised Cow's Milk, Salt, Annatto, Microbial Rennet, Starter Culture.

Little Farms Singapore product page, 150 g pre-sliced pack, suitable for vegetarians as listed. Annatto is the colour that makes red cheddar red. Allergen: milk (cow's milk) Natural

Singletons & Co Black Pepper Cheddar (Slices) — flavoured

Pack size: 150g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients: Cheddar Cheese (Pasteurized Cow's Milk, Salt, Microbial Rennet, Starter Cultures), Cracked Black Pepper, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate.

Little Farms Singapore product page, 150 g pre-sliced pack, suitable for vegetarians as listed. This is the only panelled natural slice with a preservative in the list — potassium sorbate — alongside the cracked black pepper flavouring. Allergen: milk Natural, flavoured

Arla Cheese Slices — Mozzarella (150g) — non-Singapore list, verify on the SG pack before publishing

Pack size: 150g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (retail listings for the same 150 g Arla Mozzarella slices, BigBasket India and Alphamega Cyprus, identical wording): Pasteurized Milk, Salt, Lactic acid Culture, Rennet (Microbial).

FairPrice Singapore confirms the Singapore listing (“Arla Cheese Slices — Mozzarella”, 150 g) and Amazon.sg lists the same 150 g pack; no FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for it in this pass, so this panel quotes the non-Singapore retail lists and flags them as such. Allergen: milk Natural

What to notice: four ingredients, no colour, no emulsifier — the short natural pattern, and the same list shape as Emborg Natural Gouda above. Do not confuse this with Arla's Burger Cheese family pack (processed, palm oil, above) or with Arla mozzarella products that add palm oil — those are different products with different lists.

Arla Cheese Slices — Cheddar (150g) — non-Singapore list, verify on the SG pack before publishing

Pack size: 150g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (retail listing for Arla Cheddar 150 g, Catchme Sri Lanka): Milk, salt, rennet (microbial), lactic acid culture.

FairPrice Singapore confirms the Singapore listing (“Arla Cheese Slices — Cheddar”, 150 g); no FairPrice ingredient section was retrieved for it in this pass, so this panel quotes the non-Singapore retail list and flags it as such. Allergen: milk Natural

What to notice: a Finnish retail listing for Arla cheddar slices 150 g gives the same four components with “sourdough” in place of “lactic acid culture” (“Pasteurized MILK, salt, microbiological rennet, sourdough”) — the same ingredients under different wording, but this page quotes the Catchme wording as primary and notes the variant rather than merging them. A Swedish Open Food Facts listing for Arla cheddar 150 g adds potato starch, E251 and E202 — that is a grated/shredded-style listing, not the sliced pack, and is not used here. Verify on the Singapore pack before publishing.

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

These were found listed for sale/delivery in Singapore, but no verbatim Singapore ingredient list was verified for them in this pass. They are listed here so the gap is visible, not hidden. Reasons are given per entry.

Arla Cheese Slices — Emmental, Gouda (150 g each) — FairPrice listings confirmed; no Singapore ingredient section retrieved, and no non-Singapore list specific to the 150 g sliced pack was found for either variant in this re-audit (Arla's Cyprus Gouda slices page gives marketing copy only, no list; Arla Pro Emmental slices are a foodservice format). Cheddar and Mozzarella are now panelled above from non-Singapore lists — do not copy their lists across to Emmental or Gouda.
Harvest Fields Slice Cheese — Cheddar (Mild), Gouda, Mozzarella (160 g each) — FairPrice listings confirmed (Halal) in this re-audit (5 November 2026); no ingredient list retrieved for any of the three. New brand found in this re-audit, not in the earlier pass.
Cowhead Natural Cheese Slices — Cheddar, Emmental, Gouda, Mozzarella (150 g each) — FairPrice listings and promotions confirm the range (Netherlands origin in promotion copy); no ingredient list retrieved for any of the four in this re-audit either. A Singapore Open Food Facts list exists for Cowhead Cheddar Block (pasteurised cow's milk, salt, non-animal rennet, starter culture) and an eHalal listing gives a similar four-ingredient list for a Cowhead mozzarella product — neither is the sliced pack, so neither is quoted here as the Natural slices list. Do not use the processed Cowhead list above for these.
Emborg Natural Red Cheddar Slices — Emborg brand page gives cow's milk, salt, lactic culture, colour, microbial rennet, but a Singapore sliced-pack listing was not confirmed separately from the shredded red cheddar listing, so it is not panelled.
Emborg Perfect Slices — Burger variant — sold at FairPrice/Cold Storage in burger formats; no separate ingredient section retrieved. Do not assume it is identical to the Sandwich/Cheddar list above.
Chesdale slices — Lite, Smoked, Edam, Tasty, Chives — New Zealand/Australian listings give, for example, Lite at 45% cheese and Smoked at 60% cheese with smoked flavour, Edam at 60%, Tasty at 55%, Chives with chives 0.2% — but Singapore listings for these variants were not confirmed in this pass, so none is panelled as a Singapore product.
Bega processed slices (Super Slices and similar) and Bega Farmers Tasty Natural Slices — Australian lists give Super Slices at 65% minimum cheese with emulsifiers and soy lecithin, and Farmers Tasty Natural as milk, salt, cultures, enzyme (non-animal rennet) — but a Singapore sliced-pack listing was not confirmed in this pass (a Bega cream-cheese listing mentions NTUC FairPrice Xtra as a store, which is not evidence for the slices).
Mainland Natural Tasty Cheese Slices — brand professional page gives milk, salt, cultures, enzyme (animal rennet); a Singapore listing for Mainland Tasty block cheese was found, but not for the sliced pack.
Kerrygold Mature Cheddar Natural Slices and Red Cheddar Slices (150 g) — listed via Singapore marketplace sellers; ingredient lists found are from other markets (pasteurised milk, salt, cheese cultures, microbial rennet) and are not quoted as Singapore pack lists.
Food For Friends Cheese Sliced — Mozzarella, Gouda, Monterey Jack — FairPrice/Shopee listings confirm the range exists in Singapore; no ingredient section retrieved for these three variants (unlike Cheddar Mild/Sharp and Provolone above).
Président natural slices — Emmental and Gouda (150 g) — marketplace Singapore listings found; no ingredient section retrieved. Do not use the processed Président Toast/Burger lists above for these.
Tillamook and Sargento sliced cheeses (US brands) — Tillamook Sharp Cheddar Sliced appears via Singapore marketplace/chilled sellers; US lists (cultured milk, salt, enzymes, annatto; or pasteurised milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto) are not quoted as Singapore pack lists, and Singapore-facing chilled availability was not confirmed for Sargento slices in this pass.
Don Don Donki Japanese sliced cheese — Donki Singapore stocks Japanese cheese snacks and air-flown mozzarella sticks in coverage, but no specific sliced-cheese product with a verifiable ingredient list was identified in this pass. Needs an in-store check.
Giant, Sheng Siong, Cold Storage online, RedMart, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya and Le Petit Depot sliced-cheese ranges — not inventoried online in this pass beyond the FairPrice/Cold Storage listings noted above. Sheng Siong promotions confirm Anchor and Cowhead processed slices are sold there, but no separate ingredient sections were retrieved from those chains.
Bute Island vegan sliced cheese — Mozzarella Style and Mature Cheddar Style — FairPrice listings confirmed, but these are plant-based cheese-style slices, not cheese, so they are out of scope for this page's cheese panels and are noted here only to avoid confusion. Their lists were not panelled as cheese.

Not sliced cheese — noted separately, not merged

Block cheese (slice it yourself): Perfect Italiano Mozzarella Block (FairPrice: cow's milk, salt, cultures, vegetarian rennet), Mainland Tasty block, Tradition and Emborg blocks. These are not counted as sliced rows.
Grated / shredded cheese: Perfect Italiano Mozzarella (Grated), Galbani Mozzarella & Cheddar shredded, Tradition Shredded Mozzarella & Red Cheddar, Emborg shredded ranges. Different product type, with anti-caking agents in some lists — not merged into sliced rows.
Cheese spreads and wedges: The Laughing Cow spread/wedges and Belcubes, SCS cream-cheese spread. Not sliced cheese, even where the brand also sells slices.
Cheese snacks / sticks: mozzarella sticks, cheese strings and similar snack formats. Not sliced cheese.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

How to read this section. Salt = sodium × 2.5. Sodium is shown as printed, with the salt equivalent in brackets. Where a source printed salt only, sodium is shown as salt ÷ 2.5 and flagged with †. Figures are per 100g or per 100ml wherever the source gives per-100 figures. Where a source gives per serving only, the row is quoted exactly as per serving and flagged "per serving, not per 100g/ml" in the Basis column — it is not converted, and it must not be compared directly with a per-100 row. Sugars here are total sugars as printed on the pack, not added sugars: most Singapore packs list total sugars, and the ingredient list on this page remains the evidence for whether sugar was added. No Nutri-Grade has been assigned and no health score or ranking is given. A dash (—) means that column was not stated in the source used, not zero.

As sold, per the sources in the research notes. Among the tabled rows, total sugars are low throughout: 0.4 g per serving for the two FairPrice per-serving processed slices, and no sugars figure stated for Food For Friends Cheddar Sharp or FairPrice Cheese Slices in the sources used. Sodium tabled per 100 g is 690 mg for Food For Friends Cheddar Sharp (FairPrice, per 100 g) and 1,410 mg for FairPrice Cheese Slices (Open Food Facts, derived from printed salt). Those are observed numbers only, not a verdict or a ranking. Do not compare a per-serving row directly with a per-100 g row.

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Food For Friends Cheddar Sharp	Per 100 g, as sold	403 kcal	26.7 g	31.9 g	—	0.25 g	—	690 mg (salt 1.73 g)
FairPrice Cheese Slices	Per 100 g, as sold	—	17.14 g	—	—	—	—	1,410 mg (salt 3.52 g)†
Chesdale Cheddar Cheese Slices — Original	Per serving, not per 100g/ml — FairPrice serving 21 g (1 slice)	270 kJ	3.6 g	5.2 g	3.6 g	0.7 g	0.4 g	330 mg (salt 0.83 g)
Anchor Cheddar Cheese Slices	Per serving, not per 100g/ml — FairPrice serving 25 g	210 kJ	2.9 g	4.1 g	2.8 g	0.5 g	0.4 g	—
SCS High Calcium Sliced Cheese — Reduced Fat	Per 100 g, as sold — non-SG source, see note	900 kJ	21 g	12.5 g	8.3 g	5.0 g	5.0 g	1,520 mg (salt 3.80 g)

Sources and flags: Food For Friends Cheddar Sharp and Anchor Cheddar Cheese Slices from FairPrice Singapore product pages. SCS Reduced Fat from a Malaysian retailer listing (myAEON2go, 400 g pack) — non-SG source, so its row is flagged as such and must be confirmed on the Singapore pack; energy is quoted as 900 kJ because that source gives kJ only, with no kcal figure printed. Anchor’s FairPrice page as retrieved stated no sodium figure, so that cell is left blank; its calcium line as retrieved read “227g”, an obvious unit error, and is not used here. Chesdale Original from the FairPrice Singapore product page, per serving (21 g) as printed, not converted to per 100 g. FairPrice Cheese Slices from an Open Food Facts Singapore listing (secondary); only protein and salt were stated in that listing, so the other cells are blank rather than estimated. Sugars on these plain sliced-cheese panels are lactose, naturally present in milk, not added sugar — none of the panelled slices lists added sugar (see the ingredient panels). † Sodium derived from printed salt (salt ÷ 2.5).

Seen but not verified (nutrition) — no verified nutrition panel was found in this pass for the following panelled products, so no figures are quoted for them here: Cowhead Cheese Slices — Cheddar (processed); SCS High Calcium Sliced Cheese — Original; Arla Burger Cheese Sliced Cheese Family Pack — Cheddar; Arla Cheese Slices — Mozzarella; Arla Cheese Slices — Cheddar; Kraft Hi-Calcium Singles; Président Burger Cheddar; Président Sandwich Cheddar; Président Emmental Toast; The Laughing Cow Burger (Cheddar); The Laughing Cow Toast; Emborg Perfect Slices (Cheddar/Sandwich); Emborg Natural Gouda; Emborg Natural Cheddar; Emborg Natural Edam; Emborg Natural Swiss; Tradition Sliced Cheese — Gouda; Food For Friends Cheddar Mild; Food For Friends Provolone; Food For Friends Pepper Jack; Lindahls High Protein Gouda; Singletons Mild Red Cheddar (Slices); Singletons Black Pepper Cheddar (Slices). Conflict note: an Open Food Facts listing for SCS sliced cheese gives salt as 0.003 g per 100 g, which is implausible for a processed cheese slice and conflicts with the expected order of magnitude; that figure is not used in the table above, and SCS Original stays in this unverified list until a pack or retailer panel is checked. A second implausible retailer figure was found in this re-audit: FairPrice's nutritional data for Arla Burger Cheese slices (739 kcal, 81.5 g fat, 0.6 g protein per 100 g) is not plausible for a cheese slice and is not used either — see the Arla Burger panel.

How to read an ingredient list — the jargon, in plain English

Processed cheese: Cheese that has been melted and re-formed with water, milk solids, butter and emulsifying salts. It melts smoothly and evenly, which is why it is the default burger/toastie slice — but it is not the same thing as the cheese it started from, and the cheese percentage, where printed, tells you how much of it still is.
Natural cheese (sliced): Cheese that has been made in the usual way (milk, salt, culture, rennet) and then sliced. No melting-and-reforming step, no emulsifying salts. The list is short because there is nothing else to list.
Emulsifying salts / melting salts: Phosphate and citrate salts (E331 sodium citrates, E339 sodium phosphates, E452 polyphosphates, E450 diphosphates, E341 calcium phosphates) that let cheese melt without separating into oil and solids. Their presence is the clearest marker of a processed slice.
E160a, E160b: Colours. E160a is carotenes (including beta-carotene); E160b is annatto. Both give orange/red cheddar its colour. Annatto is a natural colour, but it is still an added colour — a natural slice without it (e.g. Emborg Gouda, Food For Friends Mild) is paler.
E200, E202: Preservatives. E200 is sorbic acid; E202 is potassium sorbate. They inhibit mould and yeast. Their presence alone does not make a slice “processed” — Singletons Black Pepper Cheddar is a natural slice that still lists potassium sorbate.
E322, E460, E407: E322 is lecithin (an emulsifier; soy lecithin where stated, as in SCS). E460 is cellulose, used here as a thickener/stabiliser (Anchor, Chesdale). E407 is carrageenan, used as a thickener in Président slices.
Rennet / coagulant / enzyme: The enzyme that sets milk into curd. “Microbial rennet”, “vegetarian coagulant” and “coagulating enzyme from Mucor miehei” are non-animal. “Animal rennet”, “calves rennet” and “enzymes (animal)” (Tradition Gouda, Chesdale's calves/vegetarian option, Mainland's animal rennet) are animal-derived as printed. Where a list just says “rennet” or “enzyme” without a source, this page does not guess.
Reconstituted skimmed milk: Skimmed milk rebuilt from milk powder and water. When it is the first ingredient (Président processed slices), the slice is built from recombined milk, not from cheese alone.
Vegetable fat (palm oil): Fat from plants, not from milk. In Emborg Perfect Slices it replaces butter as the added fat. A slice with vegetable fat is not “dairy-free” — it still contains milk and cheese — but its fat is not all milk fat.
Cheese %: Where printed, the share of the product that is cheese (or, for Président, the share that is cheeses and the share that is a named cheese). Where no percentage is printed, this page says so rather than estimating one — Open Food Facts estimates are labelled as estimates, not pack claims.
Added sugar: None of the panelled slices lists added sugar or sucrose. Lactose on a nutrition panel is milk sugar, naturally present — not added sugar.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not medical advice. “High calcium”, “high protein” and “2x more calcium” are the brands' claims, quoted as such.
Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
Not complete. Arla Emmental/Gouda slices, Cowhead Natural slices, Harvest Fields slices, several Chesdale variants, Bega and Mainland slices, and the Giant/Sheng Siong/RedMart/Mustafa/Meidi-Ya/Le Petit Depot ranges are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given in the appendix, not hidden. Arla Cheddar/Mozzarella, Arla Burger slices and SCS Reduced Fat were added in the 5 November 2026 re-audit, from the flagged non-Singapore or truncated sources on their panels — they still need Singapore pack checks.
Not a block, grated or spread comparison. Those product types are noted separately above and are not counted in the sliced totals.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: NTUC FairPrice product pages (ingredient sections) for Anchor, SCS, Chesdale, Kraft, Président Burger/Sandwich, The Laughing Cow Burger/Toast, Emborg Natural Gouda, Tradition Gouda, Food For Friends Cheddar Mild/Sharp and Provolone, and Lindahls High Protein Gouda; Open Food Facts Singapore listings for FairPrice house-brand slices, Cowhead processed Cheddar and Président Emmental Toast, cross-checked against FairPrice listings; Emborg's official Singapore/Asia product pages for Natural Cheddar, Edam and Swiss; Little Farms Singapore for Singletons slices; and, flagged as non-Singapore or secondary, Malaysian retail listings for Emborg Perfect Slices and a Malaysian guide listing for Food For Friends Pepper Jack. Full per-fact source list, with URLs and conflicts, is in the accompanying research notes. Where a full Singapore pack list could not be verified, the page says so instead of filling the gap. Open Food Facts is a community database: its listings are useful for cross-checking, but the pack and the retailer's ingredient section take precedence if they disagree. Channels checked: FairPrice (including Online), Cold Storage listings, Giant/Sheng Siong promotions, Don Don Donki coverage, Little Farms, RedMart/Amazon.sg marketplace listings for range confirmation, and Lazada/Shopee Singapore listings for range confirmation. Giant, Sheng Siong, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya and Le Petit Depot online ingredient sections were not retrieved in this pass — see the appendix. Re-audit, 5 November 2026: FairPrice sliced-cheese category and brand listings re-inventoried (Arla Burger family pack, Harvest Fields slices, Cowhead Natural range re-confirmed); FairPrice product pages re-opened for Arla Burger, Toast Box/Killiney/FairPrice kaya (other pages) and the SCS/Arla listings; SCS Dairy official site, myAEON2go Malaysia (SCS Reduced Fat list and nutrition), BigBasket/Alphamega/Catchme/Metro-tukku (Arla 150g lists), Arla Cyprus (Gouda slices page — no list), Amazon.sg (Arla Mozzarella, Cowhead Natural Mozzarella listings). No Giant, Sheng Siong, Cold Storage online, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya or Le Petit Depot sliced-cheese ingredient sections were retrievable in this re-audit either; those shelves still need an in-store check.