Burrito Nutrition Facts

Burritos; a popular Mexican cuisine! Now if you love to experiment different world cuisines, you can't miss out on burritos for sure. Originally, Mexican food is made up of appetizers or snacks and loved by people of all age groups especially the kids. Burritos are made up of tortillas mostly corn tortillas which are filled up with either salads, or vegetables or animal proteins (cooked, roasted or grilled), then are wrapped and baked. These are extremely healthy, of course, unless you fry the tortillas.

It is understandable that not many people would want to know the calories in burritos; I mean who thinks while hogging on them?! However, those of you who are on diet and still can't live without eating burritos, need to know the calories associated with each of the burrito recipes mentioned below. Let's see the nutrition values for better understanding.

Nutrition	Chicken Burrito (serving size = 1 burrito)	Beef Burrito (serving size = 1 burrito)	Bean and Cheese Burrito (serving size = 1 burrito)	Taco Bell Chicken Burrito (serving size = 1 burrito)
Total Fat	1.0 grams	12.4 grams	6.23 grams	13.0 grams
Saturated Fat	~	5.2 grams	3.65 grams	5.0 grams
Polyunsaturated Fat	~	1.1 grams	~	~
Monounsaturated Fat	~	4.2 grams	~	~
Calories from Fats	~	112	56.05	117
Cholesterol	83 milligrams	85 milligrams	14.85 milligrams	57 milligrams
Proteins	35.0 grams	20.4 grams	8.02 grams	17.0 grams
Sodium	766 milligrams	1046 milligrams	620 milligrams	854 milligrams
Total carbohydrates	37.0 grams	31.0 grams	29.0 grams	~
Sugars	~	~	~	3.0 grams
Dietary Fibers	3.0 grams	~	~	~
Vitamin A	~	9%	13.3%	~
Vitamin C	~	3%	1.5%	~
Calcium	~	11%	11.4%	~
Iron	~	22%	6.7%	~
Total Calories in Burritos	332 chicken burrito calories	316 beef burrito calories	200 bean and cheese burrito calories	345 Taco Bell's chicken burrito calories

Health Benefits

Now that you have gone through the table given above, you know that Taco bell chicken burritos have the highest number of calories, whereas the bean and cheese burritos have the least amount. If you are wondering, how these would prove to be useful, then let's read through some points which would prove the statement.

• If you see carefully, burritos are a great source of vitamins; vitamin A and vitamin C. So people who are suffering from these deficiencies would have a great food option to include in their diet.
• These are high on calcium as well, so it is a necessity to include burritos, to strengthen the bones and teeth, may be not regularly but on alternate days as breakfast. Your kids would enjoy these for sure!
• Being a source of iron as well, these can help improve the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood and thus maintain an optimum hemoglobin level in people who are anemic or iron deficient.
• Now, most importantly, all the above burrito recipes are high on sodium which is an important mineral in our body that helps maintain the acidity and alkalinity thus facilitating easy transport of nutrients within the cells.

As I mentioned, as long as you don't fry these, they are absolutely safe to consume and definitely a healthy option. All the burrito recipes would require you to make the tortillas at home or buy these from local food shops after which, you need to make the stuffing of your choice, bake them and enjoy the Mexican food recipe.