Wetherspoon Traditional Breakfast: calories, salt and fat by age and sex

Nutrition information: Wetherspoon Traditional Breakfast

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 Traditional Breakfast carries a large share of a child’s daily salt

Wetherspoon Traditional Breakfast contains 4.5g of salt, which is 150% 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 Traditional Breakfast

Boone counts all 4.5g as free sugar, or about 1.1 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

• dextrose in the Lincolnshire sausage
• dextrose, sugar in the white bloomer bread

Naturally occurring sugars come from

• lactose in the Lurpak butter portions
• sugars naturally present in the vegan baked beans

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 Traditional Breakfast

Wetherspoon Traditional Breakfast is assembled from 7 separately listed components, combined and cooked in the pub kitchen. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains antioxidants, dextrose, flavourings, hydrolysed or isolated proteins, preservatives, raising agents and stabilisers. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies Wetherspoon Traditional Breakfast 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 Traditional Breakfast

The 26 manufactured ingredients

ascorbic acid, beef collagen case, calcium sulphate, cellulose, citric acid, dextrin, dextrose, diphosphates, enzymes, flavouring, herb extract, mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, natural flavouring, potassium nitrate, potassium sorbate, potato dextrin, potato starch, sodium ascorbate, sodium hydroxide, sodium metabisulphite, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite, sorbitol, spice extracts, sweetener steviol glycosides, wheat protein.

The 42 raw ingredients

ammonium carbonate, amylase, aqua lipase xf, aqua ng enhancer xf, aqua oxidant xf, beans, bleach clay, butter, dehydrated potato, egg, fluid shortening sg, herbs, hull aqua conditioner, lactic culture, lipase, liquid vegetable fat, liquid yeast, modified cornflour, palm fat palm fat, palm oil, phosphoric acid, pork, pork fat, potatoes, processing aid, rapeseed oil, rice flour, salt, sodium chloride, sodium ferrocyanide, spice, spices, spirit vinegar, sugar, sulphur dioxide, sunflower oil, tomatoes, vegetable oils, water, wheat flour, xylanase, 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.

Allergen information: Wetherspoon Traditional Breakfast

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.