Wetherspoon Smoky Spud: calories and sugar by portion, age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Smoky 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 Smoky Spud carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Smoky Spud contains 2.8g of salt, which is 93% of the daily limit for a child aged 4 to 6.

Adult daily reference intakes (Reference Intake, RI)

Where the sugar comes from: Wetherspoon Smoky Spud

Boone counts all 27g as free sugar, or about 6.8 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

• glucose, sugar, syrup in the BBQ beef brisket
• sugar in the chipotle mayonnaise
• sugar in the salad dressing

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 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 Smoky Spud

Wetherspoon Smoky Spud is assembled from 11 separately listed components, combined and cooked in the pub kitchen. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains acidity regulators, colours, flavour enhancers, flavourings, glucose or glucose-fructose syrup, maltodextrin, modified starches, preservatives, sweeteners and thickeners. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies Wetherspoon Smoky 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 Smoky Spud

The 25 manufactured ingredients

acetic acid, ammonia caramel, carrageenan, citric acid, flavouring, garlic powder, glucose syrup, guar gum, maltodextrin, modified starch, modified tapioca starch, natural flavouring, onion powder, paprika extract, plain caramel, polyphosphates, potassium sorbate, smoke flavouring, smoked maltodextrin, sodium ascorbate, sodium citrate, sucralose, tomato powder, xanthan gum, yeast extract.

The 50 raw ingredients

baby spinach, beef, black pepper, bulls blood chard, cayenne pepper, chilli, chipotle chili mash, coriander, cows milk, cucumber, cumin, free range pasteurised egg yolk, from cows milk) (cows milk, from cows milk) (starter culture, garlic, garlic paste, garlic puree, green batavia, green peppers, herbs, laurel leaf, lemon juice from concentrate, lutein, onion, oregano, paprika, paprika powder, pepper, peppers, pomace olive oil, potato, rapeseed oil, red chillies, red jalapeno, red onion, red salanova, red smoked jalapeno, salt, sous vide bbq sauce mix, spices, spirit vinegar, starter culture, sugar, sunflower oil, tomato, tomato paste, tomato puree, vegetable fibre, water, white wine vinegar.

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 Smoky 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.