Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Taco Bell Grilled Stuft Burrito - Chicken


Here's one of the more unusual items I found out there. Looking at the official nutrition chart, our stats come out as follows:

650 calories and 23 grams fat. Obviously, I skipped the nachos that go with it and also got a diet coke from a vending machine at work for .25c.

The other two choices offered are beef and steak, which come out at 690cal/30g and 630/24g respectively. All three of these fit within the 30g limit, but the chicken is my favorite.

I guess the most unusual feature of the chicken burrito is that its calories from fat only add up to 210cals. That is roughly 32% of the total calorie count, and it is actually very close to the 'healthy' proportion of the average calories from fat recommended out there. For the sake of comparison, most main menu items in fast food places will have at least 45-50% of their cals coming from fat.

Taco bell also offers Burrito Supreme with <15g grams fat and even lower ratio of cals from fat, but the few times I tried them, they tasted way too bland for my liking.

Stats:

Burrito Supreme – Beef 410cals/15g
Burrito Supreme – Chicken 390cals/12g
Burrito Supreme – Steak 380cals/12g

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