Wetherspoon Chicken Jalfrezi: calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Chicken Jalfrezi

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 Jalfrezi carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Chicken Jalfrezi contains 6.6g of salt, which is 220% 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 Jalfrezi

Effectively all 14g counts as free sugar, or about 3.5 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 Jalfrezi
• dextrose, sugar in the vegan sourdough naan

Naturally occurring sugars come from

• lactose in the chicken Jalfrezi

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 Jalfrezi

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

Boone classifies Wetherspoon Chicken Jalfrezi 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 Jalfrezi

The 6 manufactured ingredients

colour paprika extract, dextrose, modified maize starch, natural flavouring, potato starch, yeast extract.

The 62 raw ingredients

basmati rice, black gram flour, cardamom, cassia oil, celery seed, chicken breast, chilli powder, cinnamon, clove, coconut oil, cooked tikka marinated chicken, coriander, coriander leaf, cornflour, cumin, cumin seeds, dried basil, fennel, garam masala, garam masala coriander, garlic purée, ginger, ginger powder, ginger purée, green cardamom, green chilli purée, grilled roasted onions, ground black pepper, ground cardamom, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, ground coriander, ground cumin, ground fenugreek, kalonji, mace, mustard, nutmeg, onion, paprika, pepper, pimento, rapeseed oil, red bell pepper, red chillies, red onion, red pepper, rice flour, salt, smoked paprika, star anise, sugar, sunflower oil, tomato paste, turmeric, turmeric powder, water, wheat flour, white pepper, white wine vinegar, yeast, yogurt 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 Chicken Jalfrezi

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.