Household Ingredients Compared › Udon and Soba (Singapore)
Udon and soba look alike on the shelf but are different noodles: udon is thick wheat noodles with salt; soba is buckwheat noodles — and most dried "soba" is mostly wheat flour, with buckwheat second. Hakubaku's organic soba is 69% wheat flour and 29% buckwheat flour; its cha soba is 97% wheat flour with just 2% green tea powder and 1% buckwheat. The salt is the other quiet difference: udon carries 4% salt, soba 2%.
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 added sugar and allergens.
| Product | Pack size (as printed) | First ingredient | Country of manufacture (as printed) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hakubaku Organic Udon Noodle 270g | 270 g | Wheat flour (96%) | Australia (FairPrice “country/place of origin”) | Salt 4% |
| Hakubaku Organic Soba 270g | 270 g | Wheat flour (69%) | Australia (origin of ingredients) | Buckwheat 29%, salt 2% |
| Hakubaku Organic Cha Soba 200g | 200 g | Wheat flour (97%) | Australia (origin of ingredients) | Green tea 2%, buckwheat 1% |
Panelled with verbatim lists: 3 products. Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale.
Pack size: 270 g · Made in: Australia (FairPrice “country/place of origin”) (as printed)
Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Wheat Flour (96%), Salt (4%), Water.
Three ingredients. Contains wheat and gluten; manufactured on shared equipment with soy, egg and buckwheat (FairPrice advice). Country/place of origin as printed on FairPrice: Australia. Allergen: wheat, gluten Salt 4% Country of manufacture: Australia (as printed)
Pack size: 270 g · Made in: Australia (origin of ingredients) (as printed)
Ingredients (Open Food Facts (secondary) — corroborated by EU retailer listings with the identical list): Wheat flour 69%, Buckwheat flour 29%, Salt 2%.
Mostly wheat: buckwheat is 29%, not the majority. Organic, halal, Australian-made (OFF: origin of ingredients Australia). FairPrice lists this product in Singapore; the FairPrice ingredient section itself was not retrieved, so this panel is secondary — verify the SG pack before publish. Allergen: wheat (gluten) Buckwheat 29% Country of manufacture: Australia (origin of ingredients)
Pack size: 200 g · Made in: Australia (origin of ingredients) (as printed)
Ingredients (Retailer listings (secondary — EU/Asian retailers carrying the same Hakubaku product)): Wheat Flour (97%), Green Tea Powder (2%), Buckwheat (1%), Water. (Organic origin.)
Green-tea soba: the tea is 2% and buckwheat only 1% — this is a wheat noodle with green tea, not a buckwheat noodle. No salt in the list. FairPrice lists this product in Singapore; the FairPrice ingredient section was not retrieved, so this panel is secondary — verify the SG pack before publish. Allergen: wheat (gluten) Green tea 2% Country of manufacture: Australia (origin of ingredients)
All figures are per 100g, as sold (dried, uncooked). Udon nutrition was not retrieved — its row is absent rather than filled from soba.
Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Where a source printed salt only, the sodium figure is salt ÷ 2.5 and is flagged as computed.
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.
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. 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 applies to these foods as non-drinks, and none is quoted or assigned here.
| Product | Basis | Energy | Protein | Total fat | Saturated fat | Carbohydrate | Sugars | Sodium (salt equiv.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hakubaku Organic Soba | Per 100g, as sold | 344 kcal (1,440 kJ) | 10.9 g | 1.78 g | 0.33 g | 67.8 g | 0.78 g | 892 mg (salt 2.23 g) — sodium computed from printed salt |
| Hakubaku Organic Cha Soba | Per 100g, as sold | 336 kcal | 12 g | 1.3 g | not stated | 65.8 g | 4.6 g | under 5 mg (salt under 0.01 g) |
Observed numbers, no verdict: Soba lists salt 2.23 g per 100g (sodium 892 mg, computed) while cha soba lists sodium under 5 mg per 100g — the two differ by nearly 200-fold on sodium, which follows directly from their ingredient lists (soba lists salt 2%; cha soba lists no salt). Sugars are 0.78 g (soba) and 4.6 g (cha soba) per 100g, total sugars as printed.
Conflicts flagged, not silently resolved: Cha soba: two secondary sources disagree. The table follows the Asian retailer listing (336 kcal, protein 12 g, fat 1.3 g, carbohydrate 65.8 g, sugars 4.6 g, sodium under 5 mg per 100g). An EU retailer listing for the same product gives 353 kcal, protein 11.4 g, fat 0.9 g, saturated fat 0.2 g, carbohydrate 72 g, sugars 0.2 g, salt 0.007 g per 100g, and an Australian retailer gives 1,406 kJ with protein 12.0 g, fat 1.3 g, carbohydrate 65.8 g per 100g. The sugars figure (0.2 g vs 4.6 g) is the sharpest disagreement — the SG pack must settle it before publish.
Seen but not verified (nutrition): Hakubaku Organic Udon Noodle; Hime Noodles — Udon; frozen udon (all brands). No nutrition panel was retrieved for any of these.
Checked 12 November 2026 from: FairPrice ingredient section (Hakubaku Organic Udon Noodle — product page opened); FairPrice similar-products listings (Hakubaku Organic Soba, Cha Soba, Ramen, Somen, Hime Udon); Open Food Facts (Hakubaku Organic Soba ingredients and nutrition; Hakubaku Organic Udon corroboration); EU and Asian retailer listings (Hakubaku Organic Cha Soba ingredients and nutrition, with conflicts noted). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page.