Figures from Wetherspoon UK menu nutrition information , collected by Boone
Chocolate & Salted Caramel Torte with Vegan Ice Cream, as published. Calorie split calculated by Boone. How
The Chocolate & Salted Caramel Torte with Vegan Ice Cream as published, seen four ways.
2 of 3 limits are over 30% in one serving, the UK front-of-pack mark for high.
Free sugar is the biggest issue: 32g is 107% of an adult’s daily 30g in one serving.
Lower free sugarWalkers Shortbread →4.5g free sugar (15%), 149 kcalNHS limits by age: salt goes from 10% for an adult to 20% at age 4 to 6.
For age 4 to 6, free sugar is the bigger share: 32g is 168% of the day’s 19g limit.
Lower-salt swapMini Warm Chocolate Brownie →0.1g salt, 3% of the 3g limitFor age 7 to 10, free sugar is the bigger share: 32g is 133% of the day’s 24g limit.
Lower-salt swapMini Warm Chocolate Brownie →0.1g salt, 2% of the 5g limitFor age 11 to 17, free sugar is the bigger share: 32g is 107% of the day’s 30g limit.
Lower-salt swapMini Warm Chocolate Brownie →0.1g salt, 2% of the 6g limitProtein counts in your favour here, but the saturated fat is still 100% of the adult limit.
4.5g of protein, #272 on the menu. Per calorie the Children's Wiltshire Cured Ham & Fried Egg gives more: 14.7g per 100 kcal against 0.8g.
Most protein per calorieChildren's Wiltshire Cured Ham & Fried Egg →20g protein in 136 kcalHere the 240mg of sodium counts as useful after sweaty exercise.
56g of carbohydrate, and 55% of the energy is fat, which is slow to digest. Better after a long session than in the hours before one.
Natural sugars in milk, fruit and veg don’t count. NHS →
For smaller portions: the most nutrition per calorie, against all 309 Wetherspoons items.
More protein per calorie than 4% of the 309 items on the menu.
More fibre per calorie than 22% of the 309 items on the menu.
Wetherspoons does not publish vitamins or minerals for this item, so Boone does not estimate them.
The 2018 model indicates this serving is less healthy: it scores 23, above the line of 4.
Higher is less healthy; 4 or more would be classed as less healthy under this model. How the score works →
Joint #269 of 279 on the menu for this score (lower is better). Portion weight estimated by Boone from similar items.
UK Nutrient Profiling Model 2018 →72 ingredients across 3 parts; 34 are additives or processed (orange).
Group 4 because of the additives or industrial ingredients listed above. How NOVA works →
British Bramley Apple Crumble 2.5g protein, 0.5g salt410
Giant Profiterole 4.5g protein, 0.4g salt429
Warm Cookie Dough Sandwich 5.5g protein, 0.6g salt504
Chocolate & Salted Caramel Torte with Ice Cream 5.5g protein, 0.5g salt544
Chocolate & Salted Caramel Torte with Vegan Ice Cream 4.5g protein, 0.6g salt557
British Bramley Apple Crumble with Ice Cream 5g protein, 0.6g salt583
Warm Cookie Dough Sandwich with Ice Cream 6.5g protein, 0.6g salt591
Warm Chocolate Brownie 6.5g protein, 0.2g salt601557 kcal as published. 557 kcal is 28% of a 2,000 kcal adult reference intake.
For a child aged 4 to 6 it is 20% of the day’s 3g salt limit and 168% of the 19g free sugar limit in one item. A Mini Warm Chocolate Brownie has 0.1g of salt, 3% of that salt limit.
35g of total sugar as published. Boone estimates 32g of it is free sugar, from caramelised sugar, glucose, invert, muscovado, sugar, syrup in the chocolate caramel torte, glucose, sugar, syrup in the vegan ice cream: 8.0 teaspoons and 107% of an adult’s 30g daily maximum. The other 3g is naturally occurring and does not count.
4.5g, 0.8g per 100 kcal. It ranks #272 of 309 items on the menu for protein. The Children's Wiltshire Cured Ham & Fried Egg gives the most protein for the calories, 14.7g per 100 kcal.
23 on the UK Nutrient Profiling Model 2018, calculated by Boone per 100g. Scores run from -20 to 40, and the higher the score, the less healthy the model rates the food. Foods scoring 4 or more would be classed as less healthy under this model.
Yes, NOVA group 4. The ingredient list includes acidity regulators, colours, flavourings and stabilisers and thickeners.
As published, wheat, oats and soya. Eggs and milk may be present.
Source. Wetherspoon UK menu nutrition information , per item as sold.
Collected. Copied by Boone from Wetherspoons’s published figures. Data checks are led by Murray Dare.
Calculated by Boone. Labelled where it appears.
Limits. NHS free sugar and salt limits by age; UK reference intakes for adults.
