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Sprinkles and food colouring: what's actually in it?

Sprinkles are sugar with a job: they decorate. A hundreds-and-thousands sprinkle is mostly sugar and starch with colour; a chocolate rice sprinkle adds cocoa; a snowflake sprinkle is 84% sugar with palm fat. Food colouring is the liquid or paste that colours the batter itself — Bake King's creme colours are glycerine and propylene glycol carrying a permitted colour, and the colour's E-number is the whole point of the list. The useful distinction on this page is natural vs synthetic colour: Bake King's Hundreds & Thousands colours its sprinkles with apple, radish, safflower, black currant, spirulina and lemon (food-derived colours), while its Lime Creme Colour uses tartrazine (E102) and brilliant blue (E133) — synthetic dyes. Both are permitted; the list shows which you are buying.

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

Sprinkles are mostly sugar. Bake King Snow Flakes list sugar at 84% first; Hundreds & Thousands list sugar first, then starch, then glucose syrup.
Natural vs synthetic colour is visible in the list. Hundreds & Thousands are coloured with apple, radish, safflower, black currant, spirulina and lemon; Lime Creme Colour uses tartrazine (E102) and brilliant blue (E133).
Creme colours are a carrier plus a dye. Bake King Brown Creme Colour is glycerine, propylene glycol and natural caramel (E150); Lime is the same carrier with tartrazine and brilliant blue. The carrier is the same; the colour is the product.
Most colours and sprinkles could not be panelled. Bake King sells many creme colours and toppings, but only the brown and lime lists were retrieved with full wording. Chocolate rice — the FairPrice staple topping — has no retrieved list and is in seen-but-not-verified.

At a glance

Product	Pack size (as printed)	Type	First ingredient	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Bake King Hundreds & Thousands	not stated	Sprinkles (nonpareils)	Sugar	Not stated
Bake King Sprinkles — Snow Flakes	not stated	Sprinkles	Sugar (84%)	Not stated
Bake King Brown Creme Colour	not stated	Food colouring (paste)	Glycerine (E422)	Singapore
Bake King Lime Creme Colour	not stated	Food colouring (paste)	Glycerine (E422)	Singapore

Panelled with verbatim lists: 4 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.

Bake King Hundreds & Thousands

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

Ingredients (Bake King official SG site): Sugar, Starch (Corn, Wheat), Glucose syrup, Colouring Food (Apple, Radish, Safflower, Black Currant, Spirulina, Lemon), Red Beet Juice Concentrate, Glazing Agent (Bees Wax White, Carnauba Wax), Vegetable Oil (Coconut, Rapeseed).

Halal certified. The colours here are food-derived (apple, radish, safflower, black currant, spirulina, lemon) plus red beet juice concentrate — no synthetic E-number dyes in this list. The glazing agents (bees wax, carnauba wax) give the shine. Note the starch is corn and wheat — the wheat starch is an allergen flag for coeliacs. Country of manufacture: not stated on the retrieved page. Halal Food-derived colours Contains wheat starch

Bake King Sprinkles — Snow Flakes

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

Ingredients (Bake King official SG site): Sugar (84%), Vegetable fat (palm), Potato starch, Rice Flour, Corn Starch, Colours E171, E172, Natural Flavours: Vanilla.

Sugar is 84% of the product, with palm fat next — a very different construction from Hundreds & Thousands (which uses glazing waxes, not palm fat). The colours are E171 (titanium dioxide, white) and E172 (iron oxides). Flag: the retrieved page shows this product as out of stock; the list is panelled as printed, but confirm it is still the current list before publish. Country of manufacture: not stated. Sugar 84% Palm fat

Bake King Brown Creme Colour

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

Ingredients (Bake King official SG site): Glycerine (E422), Propylene Glycol (E1520) and Permitted Food Colouring Natural Caramel (E150).

A concentrated paste colour for baking. Halal certified. The colour is natural caramel (E150) — the brown in the name is the colour itself. The brand site prints 'Singapore' at the end of the ingredient line, recorded here as country of manufacture as printed on the brand site. Halal Colour: E150 Origin: Singapore

Bake King Lime Creme Colour

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

Ingredients (Bake King official SG site): Glycerine (E422), Propylene Glycol (E1520) and Permitted Food Colour Tartrazine (E102) and Brilliant Blue (E133).

The same glycerine / propylene glycol carrier as the brown creme colour, but the green comes from two synthetic dyes: tartrazine (yellow, E102) plus brilliant blue (E133). Halal certified. The brand site prints 'Singapore' at the end of the ingredient line, recorded here as country of manufacture as printed on the brand site. Halal Colours: E102, E133 Origin: Singapore

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Bake King Topping — Chocolate Rice (60 g) — listed at FairPrice, Halal; no ingredient section retrieved. Chocolate sprinkles are typically sugar, cornstarch, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa powder, soya lecithin and gum arabic (per a generic chocolate-sprinkle specification), but that generic list is not this product's list and is not panelled as one.
Bake King other Creme Colours (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Pink, Purple, Orange, Black and others) — listed on the Bake King SG site; full ingredient wording was retrieved only for Brown and Lime, so the rest are not panelled.
Bake King liquid food colours — listed on the Bake King SG site alongside the creme colours; no lists retrieved.
Queen sprinkles / 100s & 1000s — Queen is sold in Singapore (notably via Shopee SG and supermarkets in Australia); no SG list retrieved in this pass.
Dr Oetker sprinkles and food colouring — sold in SG import channels; no SG list retrieved.
Betty Crocker sprinkles (US) — a US Open Food Facts list exists (sugar, cornstarch, vegetable oil, rice flour, palm oil, confectioner's glaze, colours including Blue 1, Red 3, Yellow 5, titanium dioxide, carnauba wax, potassium sorbate); SG sale not verified, so not panelled as an SG product.
Wilton gel food colours and sprinkles (iHerb SG / Amazon SG) — listed in SG import channels; no SG lists retrieved.
Edible glitter, gold/silver dragees and lustre dust — cake-decoration products sold alongside sprinkles; no SG lists retrieved, and some contain non-sugar metallic colourings that need their own rows if added.

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).

No per-100 g nutrition panel was verified for any product on this page in this pass, and no per-serving panel was verified either. That is a gap, not a zero: these products are used in small quantities, but their panels still need retrieving from SG packs or retailer nutrition sections before publish. No per-100 g or per-serving nutrition panel was verified for any product on this page. The only number available is compositional, not nutritional: Bake King Snow Flakes are 84% sugar by the ingredient list itself. Sprinkles and colourings are used by the gram, but their panels still need retrieving from SG packs before publish.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Bake King Hundreds & Thousands, Bake King Sprinkles — Snow Flakes, Bake King Brown Creme Colour, Bake King Lime Creme Colour. Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here.

How to read a sprinkles and food colouring label — the jargon, in plain English

Hundreds & Thousands / nonpareils: Tiny round coloured sugar balls. Also called nonpareils. The FairPrice listing calls them 'Nonpareils Colour Balls'.
Chocolate rice / chocolate sprinkles / jimmies: Thin rod-shaped sprinkles. Chocolate rice is cocoa-flavoured; rainbow jimmies are sugar with colour. Neither contains chocolate in the couverture sense — chocolate sprinkles contain cocoa powder, not cocoa butter.
Creme colour vs liquid colour: Bake King's creme colours are concentrated pastes (glycerine-based); liquid colours are thinner and dosed by drops. Same dyes, different carrier and concentration — do not swap them spoon-for-spoon.
E102 Tartrazine / E133 Brilliant Blue: Synthetic food dyes: tartrazine is yellow, brilliant blue is blue; together they make green (as in the lime creme colour). Both are permitted in Singapore; some people avoid tartrazine, and the list is where that choice is made.
E150 Caramel: Caramel colour — the brown in the brown creme colour. 'Natural caramel' here means the colour class, not that the product is unprocessed.
E171 Titanium dioxide / E172 Iron oxides: White (E171) and brown/black/red (E172) mineral colours. E171 is the white in snowflake sprinkles. Note: titanium dioxide as a food additive is banned in the EU but permitted in Singapore — the list, not the jurisdiction, decides what is in the SG pack.
Glazing agent (bees wax, carnauba wax): The shine on a sprinkle. Bees wax is animal-derived; carnauba wax is plant-derived. Both are listed when used.
Colouring food vs food colour: 'Colouring Food' (apple, radish, safflower, spirulina) means the colour comes from a food ingredient; 'food colour' with an E-number means a purified dye. The Hundreds & Thousands list uses colouring foods; the lime creme colour uses dyes.

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: Bake King official SG site (Hundreds & Thousands: Sugar, Starch (Corn, Wheat), Glucose syrup, Colouring Food (Apple, Radish, Safflower, Black Currant, Spirulina, Lemon), Red Beet Juice Concentrate, Glazing Agent (Bees Wax White, Carnauba Wax), Vegetable Oil (Coconut, Rapeseed); Sprinkles — Snow Flakes: Sugar (84%), Vegetable fat (palm), Potato starch, Rice Flour, Corn Starch, Colours E171, E172, Natural Flavours: Vanilla; Brown Creme Colour: Glycerine (E422), Propylene Glycol (E1520), Permitted Food Colouring Natural Caramel (E150), Singapore; Lime Creme Colour: Glycerine (E422), Propylene Glycol (E1520), Permitted Food Colour Tartrazine (E102) and Brilliant Blue (E133), Singapore); FairPrice listings (Bake King Topping — Chocolate Rice 60 g, Bake King Topping — Hundreds & Thousands); US Open Food Facts (Betty Crocker sprinkles — SG sale not verified); generic chocolate-sprinkle specification (webstaurantstore — not used as a product list). 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: no panel was verified for any product on this page; nothing is estimated. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.