Wetherspoon Mexican Spud: calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Mexican Spud

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 Mexican Spud carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Mexican Spud contains 3.1g of salt, which is 103% of the daily limit for a child aged 4 to 6.

Adult daily reference intakes (Reference Intake, RI)

Where the sugar comes from: Wetherspoon Mexican Spud

Boone counts all 16g as free sugar, or about 4.0 teaspoons against the daily limit. Some of it will come from the vegetables listed below, but Wetherspoon does not publish a split, so treat the free sugar figure as an upper estimate.

Free (added) sugars come from

• sugar in the guacamole
• sugar in the salad dressing
• sugar in the smokey bean non carne

Naturally occurring sugars come from

• sugars naturally present in the cucumber
• lactose in the grated cheese
• sugars naturally present in the jacket potato
• sugars naturally present in the red onion
• sugars naturally present in the smokey bean non carne
• sugars naturally present in the tomato
• sugars naturally present in the red onions

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 Mexican Spud

Wetherspoon Mexican Spud is assembled from 13 separately listed components, combined and cooked in the pub kitchen. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains acidity regulators, antioxidants, colours, flavour enhancers, maltodextrin, modified starches, preservatives and thickeners. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies Wetherspoon Mexican Spud 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 Mexican Spud

The 15 manufactured ingredients

acetic acid, ammonia caramel, ascorbic acid, citric acid, garlic powder, guar gum, lovage extract, maltodextrin, modified maize starch, modified starch, onion powder, potassium sorbate, potato starch, xanthan gum, yeast extract.

The 52 raw ingredients

baby spinach, black turtle beans, brown sugar, bulls blood chard, chipotle chilli powder, cider vinegar, cocoa powder, coriander, corn, cows milk, cracked black pepper, cucumber, dehydrated coriander, dried oregano, dried parsley, from cows milk) (cows milk, from cows milk) (starter culture, garlic puree, green batavia, ground coriander, ground cumin, ground lovage, ground nutmeg, ground turmeric, ground white pepper, hass avocado, herbs, jalapeno pepper, mace powder, onion, parsnip powder, pomace olive oil, potato, rapeseed oil, red bell pepper, red chillies, red kidney beans, red onion, red peppers, red salanova, salt, smoked paprika, spices, spirit vinegar, starter culture, sugar, sunflower oil, tomato, tomato passata, tomato puree, vegetable bouillon, water.

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 Mexican Spud

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.