How many calories are in a Chipotle Burrito?
Chipotle Mexican Grill makes some of the best tasting burritos in the world – unfortunately, they’re not always the healthiest option available.
With their neat-o flash website, unconventional marketing, and commitment to natural foods, Chipotle restaurant projects and ultra-hip image. For this reason, many people are surprised to learn that Chipotle is actually owned by the McDonald’s corporation. In what must be a carefully calculated marketing strategy, Chipotle has made it difficult for consumers to learn the nutritional value of most of their menu items. In fact, one consumer reports receiving the following response when requesting nutritional information from the company:
‘Unfortunately, sorry, we have never performed any analyses of our food to determine nutritional information at this time. If you or your website clients have a specific allergy or food intolerance or the like, then I would be happy to help y’all with the ingredients.’
Fortunately, the good folks at Chipotlefan.com make it easy to estimate the nutritional value of a Chipotle burriot with this nifty Chipotle Nutrition Calculator. Here are the stats for my favorite, a steak burrito with black beans, rice, cheese, sour cream, 2 sauces and lettuce:
Wow, 49g of fat and 1280 calories! Not to even mention that the Sodium content is well over the USDA recommended maxiumu of 2400 mg per day.
How does your burrito rate?
May 21st, 2006 at 7:41 pm
If you prefer Qdoba, you’ll find that they’re a little bit more open about their nutrional value. My favorite, the naked chicken fajita classica burrito, no sour cream, cheese & pico de gallo & fiery haberno salsa has:
Signature Burritos Nutrition Facts*
Total Serving Size (oz): 15
Selected Items: Cilantro Lime Rice, Fajita Vegetables, Chicken, Pico de Gallo, Shredded Cheese, Fiery Habanero Salsa **
Amount per Serving:
Calories 630 cal
Calories From Fat 270 cal
Protein 42 g
Carbs 51 g
Dietary Fiber 5 g
Sugar 4 g
Fat Total 30 g
Saturated Fat 12 g
Trans Fatty Acids 0 g
Cholesterol 170 mg
Vitamin A 30 %DV
Vitamin C 60 %DV
Calcium 30 %DV
Iron 20 %DV
Potassium 880 mg
Sodium 1600 mg
December 13th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
It is sad that you don’t know more about Chipotle. You my be correct in the calories and all that, but get ALL of your facts right. McDonalds has never nor will never own or control chipotle at any level and never has. It is true that early on, when chipotle stock went public mcdonalds bought shares, alot of shares. However, mcdonalds never had control of ANY thing chipotle has done or will ever do. Mcdonalds has since pulled all their stock in chipotle in early 2006 and currently hold absolutly NO stock in the company.
December 13th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Sorry we made you sad, Josh. McDonald’s was the majority shareholder (and thus in full-control) of the Chipotle corporation for eight years. You are correct that they have since divested their ownership interest.
December 30th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
There seems to be a new Nutrition Calculator on the site now.
My favorite is the Burrito Bol with chicken, rice, black beans, mild salsa, cheese, sour cream and lettuce.
Works out to:
Calories 680
Cal from Fat 275
Total Fat 29g
Protein 52g
Not having the tortilla makes a pretty big difference. (290 calories and 9g fat)