Wetherspoon American Cheese Burger: calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon American Cheese Burger

Nutrition figures are Wetherspoon’s UK published data, per dish as served. Wetherspoon rounds grams to whole numbers, so Boone works fat, saturates, carbohydrate, sugars, protein and salt back from the published reference intake percentages to one decimal place. Fibre is shown as published.

Wetherspoon American Cheese Burger carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon American Cheese Burger contains 4.3g of salt, which is 143% of the daily limit for a child aged 4 to 6. It is also high in saturated fat.

Adult daily reference intakes (Reference Intake, RI)

Where the sugar comes from: Wetherspoon American Cheese Burger

Boone counts all 16g as free sugar, or about 4.0 teaspoons against the daily limit. Some of it will come from the vegetables listed below, but Wetherspoon does not publish a split, so treat the free sugar figure as an upper estimate.

Free (added) sugars come from

• dextrose, sugar in the burger bun
• sugar in the gherkins (sliced)
• sugar in the tomato ketchup
• honey, sugar in the yellow mustard

Naturally occurring sugars come from

• lactose in the American style cheese
• sugars naturally present in the red onion
• sugars naturally present in the tomato ketchup

NHS daily free sugar limits: 30g for adults and children 11+, 24g age 7 to 10, 19g age 4 to 6. Sources are read from the published ingredient list for each component. Whole fruit and lactose deductions are Boone estimates; Wetherspoon publishes total sugar only.

Processing and additives: Wetherspoon American Cheese Burger

Wetherspoon American Cheese Burger is assembled from 8 separately listed components, combined and cooked in the pub kitchen. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains acidity regulators, anti-caking agents, colours, dextrose, emulsifiers, emulsifying salts, flavourings, flour treatment agents, hydrolysed or isolated proteins, modified starches, preservatives, sweeteners and thickeners. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies Wetherspoon American Cheese Burger as NOVA group 4, ultra-processed, based on the industrial ingredients named above. NOVA groups foods by how far they are from their whole-food form, not by how nutritious they are. A group 4 food is not automatically unhealthy, and a group 1 food is not automatically healthy. Read from the published ingredient list, retrieved 3 October 2026.

Ingredient count by order: Wetherspoon American Cheese Burger

The 21 manufactured ingredients

ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, carotenes, citric acid, corn starch, dextrose, e954, flavouring, lecithins, milk protein, modified potato starch, modified starch, mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, natural cheese flavouring, paprika extract, sodium metabisulphite, spice and herb extracts, trisodium citrate, turmeric extract, vegetable protein, xanthan gum.

The 24 raw ingredients

beef, black pepper, butter, cheddar cheese, cheese, gherkin, honey, malt vinegar, milk solids, mustard seeds, potatoes, rapeseed oil, red onion, rice flour, salt, sorbic acid, spices, spirit vinegar, sugar, sunflower oil, tomato, water, wheat flour, yeast.

What those ingredients are, by type

Boone counts every distinct named ingredient on Wetherspoon’s published component lists, including sub-ingredients, and removes duplicates, so salt appearing in four components counts once. Additive class names are dropped and the named substance kept, so “stabiliser (guar gum)” counts guar gum once, and the vitamins and minerals added to fortified flour are not counted separately. Raw covers whole foods and basic kitchen staples such as flour, sugar, salt and oil. Manufactured covers substances that only exist as an output of industrial processing. Where Wetherspoon lists more than one approved supplier recipe only the first is counted, so every figure here is a minimum. The build uses a garlic and herb dip and a warm chocolate brownie with ice cream.

Allergen information: Wetherspoon American Cheese Burger

Contains = declared by Wetherspoon for this dish. May contain traces = a precautionary warning on one of the published component ingredient lists. Cereals containing gluten are split by grain where the ingredient list names it. Wetherspoon kitchens handle all 14 major allergens and share equipment and fryers, so no dish can be guaranteed allergen free. Taken from Wetherspoon’s UK allergen and nutrition service, retrieved 3 October 2026. Recipes change; always check with the pub before ordering if you have an allergy.