Dave's Hot Chicken Nutrition: Full UK Menu Breakdown

Boone uses the nutrition guide and allergen matrix Dave's Hot Chicken publishes for its UK menu, then calculates free sugar and how much of the daily guidelines each item uses for your age and sex.

Boone updates the Dave's Hot Chicken pages when Dave's Hot Chicken changes its published UK nutrition information, including new items, recipe changes and items leaving the menu.

No. Recipes, ingredients and portion sizes vary by country, so Dave's Hot Chicken figures from the US or elsewhere do not apply here. Boone only uses Dave's Hot Chicken's UK nutrition information.

Each Dave's Hot Chicken item shows its calories, sugar, free sugar, saturated fat, salt and protein, along with the allergens Dave's Hot Chicken declares. Every figure is also shown as a share of the daily guideline for your age and sex.

Open any Dave's Hot Chicken item and set an age and sex. The calculator shows its calories, sugar, salt, saturated fat and protein as a share of that person's daily guidelines, and you can adjust the portion size.

Yes. Start with any Dave's Hot Chicken item, then add sides and drinks to build the meal. The calculator totals the calories and nutrition and shows how the whole meal fits the daily guidelines for your age and sex.

Yes. Sides, drinks, Dave's Sauce and the sauce sachets can all be added to a meal. Each addition updates the meal's calories, sugar, salt and saturated fat.

Yes, slightly. Dave's Hot Chicken publishes one set of figures for Not Hot and Lite Mild and another for the hotter levels, because the spicier seasoning adds a little fat and salt. A Single Slider is 553 kcal at Not Hot and 587 kcal from Mild to Reaper. The calculator lets you choose either.

Boone uses UK government and NHS guidelines, which differ by age and sex. Saturated fat is limited to 20g a day for women and 30g for men, and free sugar to 30g for adults but 19g for children aged 4 to 6. Choosing an age and sex recalculates every figure against the right limits.

For adults, the reference intake is 2,000 kcal and 70g of fat a day, with no more than 20g of saturated fat for women or 30g for men, 30g of free sugar and 6g of salt. Children have lower limits for free sugar and salt.

Children have lower limits for free sugar and salt and need less energy, so the same item uses a bigger share of their day. A child aged 4 to 6 has a limit of 19g of free sugar and 3g of salt, compared with 30g and 6g for an adult.

No. Calories and nutrients change with portion size, so where Dave's Hot Chicken sells an item in more than one size, each size is listed separately. You can also adjust the portion in the calculator.

Yes. Sauces and dips can add a noticeable amount of sugar, salt and calories, especially if you have more than one. A tub of Dave's Sauce adds 819 kcal on its own. You can add sauces to your meal in the calculator.

Yes. Dave's Hot Chicken publishes nutrition for its shakes, slushers and soft drinks, so they are listed with the same detail as food and can be added to any meal. Sugary drinks and shakes are often the largest single source of free sugar in a meal.

Dave's Hot Chicken publishes total sugar, which includes the sugar naturally found in milk. NHS limits apply only to free sugars, so Boone separates the two and measures free sugar against your daily limit. That is why a shake can use less of your limit than its total sugar suggests.

Fat is the total of all the fats in an item. Saturated fat is one type within that total and has its own daily limit, 20g for women and 30g for men, because eating too much can raise cholesterol.

Yes, as part of a balanced diet. Checking a Dave's Hot Chicken meal's calories, saturated fat, sugar and salt against your daily guidelines shows how much room is left for the rest of the day.

Choose a single slider or tender rather than a meal, swap a sugary drink or shake for water or a zero sugar option, and go easy on Dave's Sauce. The calculator shows how each change affects the meal before you order.

Yes. Each Dave's Hot Chicken item gives calories, sugar, saturated fat, salt and protein that you can log in any tracker. In the Boone app you can also snap a photo of your meal to log it.

Yes. Each Dave's Hot Chicken item page lists the allergens Dave's Hot Chicken declares as ingredients. Dave's Hot Chicken does not pass on suppliers' may contain warnings and shares all equipment and fryers, so if you have a severe allergy, always check with the restaurant before ordering.

Dave's Hot Chicken states that none of its dishes are gluten free, because all food is prepared using shared equipment and fryers. Some items, such as the fries and drinks, have no gluten declared as an ingredient, but that is not the same as gluten free.