Wetherspoon Chicken Tikka Masala: calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Chicken Tikka Masala

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 Tikka Masala carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Chicken Tikka Masala contains 6.4g of salt, which is 213% 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 Chicken Tikka Masala

Effectively all 12g counts as free sugar, or about 3.0 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 Tikka Masala
• dextrose, sugar in the vegan sourdough naan

Naturally occurring sugars come from

• lactose in the chicken Tikka Masala

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 Tikka Masala

Wetherspoon Chicken Tikka Masala is assembled from 6 separately listed components, combined and cooked in the pub kitchen. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains acidity regulators, colours, 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 Tikka Masala 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 Tikka Masala

The 11 manufactured ingredients

citric acid, colour e160c, dextrose, flavouring, garlic powder, modified maize starch, natural flavouring, onion powder, paprika extract, potato starch, yeast extract.

The 65 raw ingredients

basmati rice, black gram flour, black pepper, butter, cardamom, cassia oil, celery seed, chicken breast, chilli powder, cinnamon, cinnamon powder, clove, clove powder, coconut oil, cooked seared tikka marinated chicken, coriander, coriander leaf, coriander powder, cornflour, cumin, cumin powder, cumin seeds, dried basil, fennel, fennel powder, fenugreek leaf, fenugreek powder, garam masala coriander, garlic purée, ginger, ginger powder, ginger purée, green cardamom, green chilli purée, grilled roasted onions, ground bay leaves, ground cardamom, kalonji, lemon oil, mace, mustard, nutmeg, onion, onion seed, paprika, pepper, pimento, rapeseed oil, red bell pepper, red chillies, rice flour, salt, single cream, spinach, star anise, sugar, sunflower oil, tomato paste, turmeric, turmeric powder, water, wheat flour, white pepper, 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 Tikka Masala

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.