Qdoba Nutrition Facts

Qdoba is a food outlet dealing with Mexican delicacies. Spread over more than four hundred and eighty outlets, Qdoba is fast becoming a Mexican food lover's paradise.

The items on the menu are mostly made up of chicken, pork, steak, vegetables, sauces etc. The flavors are exclusively Mexican with a lot of pepper and spices being used as ingredients. The signature items are the burritos, tortillas and the grilled quesadillas.

The burritos include different variety of ingredients like beef, steak, pork, vegetables, cheese, cream, corn sauces etc. A plain burrito itself provides around 100 calories of energy and has a serving portion of sixty grams. Burrito is simply like pizza base and made of flour. So it is quite natural that no one would eat it without any added topping. So is the tortilla packed with calories. A single tortilla provides around three hundred and thirty calories and around fifty four grams of carbohydrates. Now depending upon the topping used, the nutrition fact will differ. If opting for a beef topping, or beef burrito the total calories amounts to three hundred and thirty calories with a serving portion of one hundred and sixty five grams. The total sodium is a huge eight hundred and twenty milligrams, with potassium close behind at five hundred and thirty milligrams. The total fat of this single burrito is about twenty four grams and saturated fat of twelve grams; with trans fat around one gram. The trans fat is the major culprit in the junk foods.

The fiber content is around two grams and the there is sugar added too. The sugar content is around one gram, and the protein which is a beneficial item is around twenty four grams. But this protein is derived from the red meat or the beef, which is classified as a high protein and a bit difficult to digest.

The good nutrients are the Vitamin A which is around fifteen percent of the total recommended daily allowance based on a diet of two thousand calories, Vitamin C which is around two percent of the RDA, calcium is around ten percent of the RDA and iron which comes mainly from the red meat is again around twenty percent of the RDA.

Opting for a relatively safer item like plain grilled vegetables also provides around sixty calories from a serving portion of hundred grams and the sodium content is still hundred milligrams and potassium content of two hundred and sixty milligrams.

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