Wetherspoon Cheese Meltdown (Fried Buttermilk Chicken): calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Cheese Meltdown (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 Cheese Meltdown (Fried Buttermilk Chicken) carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Cheese Meltdown (Fried Buttermilk Chicken) contains 6.2g of salt, which is 207% 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 Cheese Meltdown (Fried Buttermilk Chicken)

Boone counts all 17g as free sugar, or about 4.2 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
• molasses, sugar in the cheese sauce
• dextrose, sugar in the onion rings

Naturally occurring sugars come from

• lactose in the American style cheese
• lactose in the cheese sauce
• 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 Cheese Meltdown (Fried Buttermilk Chicken)

Wetherspoon Cheese Meltdown (Fried Buttermilk Chicken) is assembled from 9 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, 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 Cheese Meltdown (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 Cheese Meltdown (Fried Buttermilk Chicken)

The 43 manufactured ingredients

ascorbic acid, bay extract, beta-carotene, buttermilk powder, calcium lactate, carotenes, carrageenan, citric acid, corn starch, dextrose, diphosphates, disodium diphosphate, flavouring, garlic powder, guar gum, lactic acid, lecithins, maize starch, maltodextrin, milk powder, milk protein, modified maize starch, modified potato starch, modified starch, modified tapioca starch, mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, natural cheese flavouring, natural flavouring, onion powder, paprika extract, polyphosphates, potato starch, roast onion extract, roast onion powder, sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonates, sodium phosphate, tapioca starch, trisodium citrate, turmeric extract, vegetable protein, xanthan gum, yeast extract.

The 32 raw ingredients

beer, black pepper, butter, buttermilk, cheddar cheese, cheese, chicken breast, from cows milk), fully refined soybean, garlic, iceberg lettuce, milk solids, molasses, onion, paprika powder, potatoes, rapeseed oil, red onion, rice flour, salt, sorbic acid, soya bean, spices, sugar, sunflower oil, thyme, tomato, water, wheat flour, white pepper, whole milk, 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 Cheese Meltdown (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.