Wetherspoon Macaroni Cheese with Chips: calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Macaroni Cheese 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 Macaroni Cheese with Chips carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Macaroni Cheese with Chips contains 4.7g of salt, which is 157% 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 Macaroni Cheese with Chips

Effectively all 7.2g counts as free sugar, or about 1.8 teaspoons against the daily limit. Any naturally occurring sugar is too small to change the figure.

Free (added) sugars come from

• glucose, syrup in the Scottish macaroni cheese

Naturally occurring sugars come from

• lactose in the Scottish macaroni cheese

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 Macaroni Cheese with Chips

Wetherspoon Macaroni Cheese with Chips is assembled from 2 separately listed components, combined and cooked in the pub kitchen. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains colours, flavour enhancers, flavourings, glucose or glucose-fructose syrup and modified starches. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies Wetherspoon Macaroni Cheese 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 Macaroni Cheese with Chips

The 11 manufactured ingredients

beta-carotene, cheese powder, corn starch, glucose syrup, modified maize starch, modified starch, natural flavouring, paprika extract, skimmed milk powder, turmeric extract, yeast extract.

The 14 raw ingredients

cheddar cheese, durum wheat semolina, milk, mozzarella cheese, paprika, potatoes, red leicester cheese, rice flour, salt, scottish mature cheddar, single cream, sunflower oil, water, wheat flour.

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 Macaroni Cheese 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.