Wetherspoon Boneless Basket with Spicy Rice: calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Boneless Basket with Spicy Rice

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 Boneless Basket with Spicy Rice carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Boneless Basket with Spicy Rice contains 4.2g of salt, which is 140% of the daily limit for a child aged 4 to 6.

Adult daily reference intakes (Reference Intake, RI)

Where the sugar comes from: Wetherspoon Boneless Basket with Spicy Rice

Effectively all 23g counts as free sugar, or about 5.8 teaspoons against the daily limit. Any naturally occurring sugar is too small to change the figure.

Free (added) sugars come from

• molasses, sugar in the BBQ sauce
• sugar in the chicken nuggets
• sugar in the chicken strips
• sugar in the spicy rice
• sugar in the vegetarian coleslaw
• dextrose, sugar in the chicken breast nuggets
• molasses, sugar in the DF BBQ sauce

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 Boneless Basket with Spicy Rice

Wetherspoon Boneless Basket with Spicy Rice is assembled from 7 separately listed components, combined and cooked in the pub kitchen. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains acidity regulators, colours, dextrose, flavour enhancers, flavourings, 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 Boneless Basket with Spicy Rice 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 Boneless Basket with Spicy Rice

The 25 manufactured ingredients

citric acid, curcumin, dextrose, diphosphates, e450i, flavouring, garlic powder, guar gum, maize starch, modified maize starch, modified tapioca starch, natural flavouring, onion powder, paprika extract, potassium sorbate, potato starch, preservative potassium sorbate, smoke maltodextrin, sodium bicarbonate, sodium citrate, tapioca starch, turmeric extract, wheat starch, xanthan gum, yeast extract.

The 47 raw ingredients

ammonium hydrogen carbonate, black pepper, cane molasses, carrot, cayenne pepper, celery seed, chicken breast fillet, chilli, chives, cocoa butter, corn flour, cumin, fennel seed, frozen long grain rice, fully-refined soybean, garlic, green pepper, maize flour, mustard powder, onion, onions, oregano, palm oil, paprika, parsley, pasteurised free range egg, rapeseed oil, red onion, red pepper, rice flour, salt, sea salt, smoked water, spirit vinegar, sugar, sunflower oil, tomato, tomato paste, tomatoes, turmeric, vegetable oil, water, wheat flour, wheat gluten, white cabbage, white pepper, 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 Boneless Basket with Spicy Rice

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.