Wetherspoon Big Smoke (Fried Buttermilk Chicken): calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Big Smoke (Fried Buttermilk Chicken)

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 Big Smoke (Fried Buttermilk Chicken) carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Big Smoke (Fried Buttermilk Chicken) contains 7g of salt, which is 233% 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 Big Smoke (Fried Buttermilk Chicken)

Boone counts all 32g as free sugar, or about 8.0 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

• glucose, sugar, syrup in the BBQ beef brisket
• dextrose, sugar in the burger bun
• maple, sugar, syrup in the long strip maple-cured bacon
• dextrose, sugar in the onion rings

Naturally occurring sugars come from

• lactose in the American style cheese
• lactose in the fried buttermilk chicken
• sugars naturally present in the iceberg lettuce
• sugars naturally present in the onion rings
• sugars naturally present in the red onion
• sugars naturally present in the tomato

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 Big Smoke (Fried Buttermilk Chicken)

Wetherspoon Big Smoke (Fried Buttermilk Chicken) is assembled from 10 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, flavour enhancers, flavourings, flour treatment agents, glucose or glucose-fructose syrup, hydrolysed or isolated proteins, maltodextrin, modified starches, preservatives, raising agents and thickeners. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies Wetherspoon Big Smoke (Fried Buttermilk Chicken) 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 Big Smoke (Fried Buttermilk Chicken)

The 48 manufactured ingredients

ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, buttermilk powder, calcium lactate, carotenes, carrageenan, citric acid, corn starch, dextrose, diphosphates, disodium diphosphate, flavouring, garlic powder, glucose syrup, guar gum, lactic acid, lecithins, maize starch, maltodextrin, milk powder, milk protein, modified potato starch, modified starch, modified tapioca starch, mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, natural cheese flavouring, natural flavouring, onion powder, paprika extract, plain caramel, polyphosphates, potassium sorbate, potato starch, smoke flavouring, smoked maltodextrin, sodium ascorbate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonates, sodium citrate, sodium nitrite, tapioca starch, tomato powder, triphosphates, trisodium citrate, turmeric extract, vegetable protein, xanthan gum, yeast extract.

The 45 raw ingredients

beef, beer, black pepper, butter, buttermilk, cayenne pepper, cheddar cheese, cheese, chicken breast, chilli, coriander, cumin, fully refined soybean, garlic, garlic paste, iceberg lettuce, laurel leaf, maple syrup, milk solids, onion, oregano, paprika, paprika powder, pepper, peppers, pork belly, potatoes, rapeseed oil, red onion, rice flour, salt, sorbic acid, sous vide bbq sauce mix, spices, sugar, sunflower oil, thyme, tomato, tomato puree, vegetable fibre, water, wheat flour, white pepper, white wine vinegar, 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 Big Smoke (Fried Buttermilk Chicken)

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.