Wetherspoon Southern-Fried Chicken Strips Basket with Spicy Rice: calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Southern-Fried Chicken Strips Basket with Spicy Rice

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 Southern-Fried Chicken Strips Basket with Spicy Rice carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Southern-Fried Chicken Strips Basket with Spicy Rice contains 4.4g of salt, which is 147% of the daily limit for a child aged 4 to 6.

Adult daily reference intakes (Reference Intake, RI)

Where the sugar comes from: Wetherspoon Southern-Fried Chicken Strips Basket with Spicy Rice

Effectively all 22g counts as free sugar, or about 5.5 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 strips
• honey, muscovado, sugar, treacle in the JD honey glaze
• sugar in the spicy rice
• sugar in the vegetarian coleslaw

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 Southern-Fried Chicken Strips Basket with Spicy Rice

Wetherspoon Southern-Fried Chicken Strips Basket with Spicy Rice is assembled from 4 separately listed components, combined and cooked in the pub kitchen. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains acidity regulators, colours, flavour enhancers, flavourings, maltodextrin, modified starches, raising agents and thickeners. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies Wetherspoon Southern-Fried Chicken Strips Basket with Spicy Rice 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 Southern-Fried Chicken Strips Basket with Spicy Rice

The 22 manufactured ingredients

ammonia caramel, citric acid, curcumin, diphosphates, flavouring, garlic powder, guar gum, maltodextrin, modified maize starch, modified tapioca starch, natural flavouring, nutmeg extract, onion powder, paprika extract, preservative potassium sorbate, smoke flavouring, sodium citrate, tapioca starch, turmeric extract, wheat starch, xanthan gum, yeast extract.

The 54 raw ingredients

ammonium hydrogen carbonate, apple juice concentrate, black pepper, black treacle, carrot, celery seed, chicken breast fillet, chilli, chilli powder, chives, cider vinegar, cocoa butter, cumin, dark muscovado sugar, dehydrated onion, fennel seed, frozen long grain rice, garlic, garlic puree, green pepper, honey, honey liqueur, maize flour, mustard powder, onion, onions, oregano, palm oil, paprika, parsley, pasteurised free range egg, rapeseed oil, red onion, red pepper, rice flour, salt, sea salt, soya beans, spirit vinegar, sugar, sunflower oil, tennessee whiskey, tennessee whiskey & honey liqueur, tomato, tomato paste, tomatoes, turmeric, water, wheat flour, wheat gluten, white cabbage, white pepper, white sugar, yeast.

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 Southern-Fried Chicken Strips Basket with Spicy Rice

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.