Wetherspoon Chicken Bites Basket with Chips: calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Chicken Bites Basket with Chips

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 Chicken Bites Basket with Chips carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Chicken Bites Basket with Chips contains 4.1g of salt, which is 137% of the daily limit for a child aged 4 to 6.

Adult daily reference intakes (Reference Intake, RI)

Where the sugar comes from: Wetherspoon Chicken Bites Basket with Chips

Effectively all 29g counts as free sugar, or about 7.2 teaspoons against the daily limit. Any naturally occurring sugar is too small to change the figure.

Free (added) sugars come from

• sugar in the chicken nuggets
• sugar in the sticky soy sauce
• sugar in the vegetarian coleslaw
• dextrose, sugar in the chicken breast nuggets

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 Chicken Bites Basket with Chips

Wetherspoon Chicken Bites Basket with Chips is assembled from 5 separately listed components, combined and cooked in the pub kitchen. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains acidity regulators, colours, dextrose, flavour enhancers, modified starches, raising agents and thickeners. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies Wetherspoon Chicken Bites Basket with Chips 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 Chicken Bites Basket with Chips

The 18 manufactured ingredients

citric acid, corn starch, dextrose, e450i, garlic powder, guar gum, maize starch, modified maize starch, modified starch, paprika extract, potato starch, preservative potassium sorbate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium citrate, turmeric extract, wheat starch, xanthan gum, yeast extract.

The 26 raw ingredients

alcohol ethanol, carrot, chicken breast fillet, chives, corn flour, fully-refined soybean, ginger puree, mustard powder, pasteurised free range egg, potatoes, rapeseed oil, red onion, rice flour, salt, soya beans, spirit vinegar, sugar, sunflower oil, vegetable oil, water, wheat, wheat flour, white cabbage, white pepper, white wine, 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 Chicken Bites Basket with Chips

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.