Figures from Wetherspoon UK menu nutrition information , collected by Boone
Sticky Hot Honey Grilled Chicken Bowl with Coconut-Flavour Rice, as published. Calorie split calculated by Boone. How
The Sticky Hot Honey Grilled Chicken Bowl with Coconut-Flavour Rice as published, seen four ways.
2 of 3 limits are over 30% in one bowl, the UK front-of-pack mark for high.
Free sugar is the biggest issue: 49g is 163% of an adult’s daily 30g in one bowl.
Lower free sugarFresh Fruit Bowl →0g free sugar (0%), 186 kcalNHS limits by age: salt goes from 43% for an adult to 87% at age 4 to 6.
For age 4 to 6, free sugar is the bigger share: 49g is 258% of the day’s 19g limit.
Lower-salt swapFresh Fruit Bowl →0g salt, 0% of the 3g limitFor age 7 to 10, free sugar is the bigger share: 49g is 204% of the day’s 24g limit.
Lower-salt swapFresh Fruit Bowl →0g salt, 0% of the 5g limitFor age 11 to 17, free sugar is the bigger share: 49g is 163% of the day’s 30g limit.
Lower-salt swapFresh Fruit Bowl →0g salt, 0% of the 6g limitProtein counts in your favour here, but the saturated fat is still 10% of the adult limit.
42g of protein, #63 on the menu. Per calorie the Children's Wiltshire Cured Ham & Fried Egg gives more: 14.7g per 100 kcal against 6.3g.
Most protein per calorieChildren's Wiltshire Cured Ham & Fried Egg →20g protein in 136 kcalHere the 1,040mg of sodium counts as useful after sweaty exercise.
109g of carbohydrate, with 9% of the energy from fat.
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 90% of the 309 items on the menu.
More fibre per calorie than 12% 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 bowl is less healthy: it scores 11, 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 #199 of 279 on the menu for this score (lower is better). Portion weight estimated by Boone from similar items.
UK Nutrient Profiling Model 2018 →28 ingredients across 4 parts; 6 are additives or processed (orange).
Group 4 because of the additives or industrial ingredients listed above. How NOVA works →
Chicken & Maple-Cured Bacon Salad (Chicken Breast) 45g protein, 3.1g salt477
Chicken & Maple-Cured Bacon Salad (Southern-Fried Chicken) 32g protein, 3.9g salt566
Fried Halloumi-Style Cheese & Mediterranean Vegetable Salad 30g protein, 5.3g salt595
Sticky Korean Grilled Chicken Bowl with Coconut-Flavour Rice 42g protein, 3.2g salt641
Sticky Hot Honey Grilled Chicken Bowl with Coconut-Flavour Rice 42g protein, 2.6g salt666
Sticky Korean Fried Quorn 'No Chicken' Bowl with Coconut-Flavour Rice 26g protein, 3.5g salt761
Sticky Hot Honey 'No Chicken' Bowl with Coconut-Flavour Rice 26g protein, 3g salt786
Sticky Hot Honey Grilled Chicken Bowl with Chips 42g protein, 3.1g salt789666 kcal as published. 666 kcal is 33% of a 2,000 kcal adult reference intake.
For a child aged 4 to 6 it is 87% of the day’s 3g salt limit and 258% of the 19g free sugar limit in one item. A Fresh Fruit Bowl has 0g of salt, 0% of that salt limit.
49g of total sugar as published. Boone estimates 49g of it is free sugar, from dextrose in the chicken breast, honey in the hot honey: 12.2 teaspoons and 163% of an adult’s 30g daily maximum.
42g, 6.3g per 100 kcal. It ranks #63 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.
11 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 preservatives, flavourings, stabilisers and thickeners and modified starches and sugars.
As published, none of the 14 major allergens are declared as ingredients.
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.
