Wetherspoon Beef Madras: calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Beef Madras

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 Beef Madras carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Beef Madras contains 6.7g of salt, which is 223% 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 Beef Madras

Effectively all 19g counts as free sugar, or about 4.8 teaspoons against the daily limit. Any naturally occurring sugar is too small to change the figure.

Free (added) sugars come from

• glucose, sugar, syrup in the beef Madras
• dextrose, sugar in the vegan sourdough naan

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 Beef Madras

Wetherspoon Beef Madras is assembled from 6 separately listed components, combined and cooked in the pub kitchen. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains colours, dextrose, flavour enhancers, flavourings, glucose or glucose-fructose syrup and modified starches. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies Wetherspoon Beef Madras 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 Beef Madras

The 9 manufactured ingredients

dextrose, glucose syrup powder, lemon juice sulphites, maize starch, modified maize starch, natural flavouring, paprika extract, potato starch, yeast extract.

The 65 raw ingredients

basmati rice, bay leaves, beef, black gram flour, black pepper, brown sugar, cardamom, cassia oil, celery seed, chilli powder, cinnamon, clove, coconut oil, coriander, cumin, cumin seeds, curry leaves, desiccated coconut, fennel, garam masala, garam masala coriander, garlic purée, ginger, ginger puree, ginger purée, green cardamom, green chillies, grilled roasted onions, ground cardamom, ground cassia, ground clove, ground cloves, ground coriander, ground cumin, ground fennel, ground ginger, ground green cardamom, ground mace, kalonji, marinated beef, mustard, mustard seeds, nutmeg, onion, onions, paprika, pepper, pimento, rapeseed oil, red bell pepper, red chilli puree, red chillies, rice flour, salt, sugar, sunflower oil, tamarind paste, tomato passata, tomato puree, turmeric, water, wheat flour, white pepper, yeast, yellow mustard powder.

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 Beef Madras

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.