How many calories are in a taco salad?
710calories with 2 tbsp of sour cream
42 g of protein, 14.3 g of fiber. The biggest line is the ground beef, 231 calories.
A+ Clears all six meters as a meal.
About 711 calories with 2 tablespoons of sour cream, with 42 g of protein and 14 g of fiber. It’s built here on 3 cups of romaine with a palm of ground beef, half a cup of black beans, an ounce of cheddar, a tomato, 2 tablespoons of salsa and an ounce of tortilla strips.
It grades A+, and most of that is earned. The beans bring 7.5 g of fiber, the beef and beans bring the protein, and the size fits a meal on a 2,000 calorie day. But the six meters don’t count saturated fat or salt, and this bowl has about 17 g of saturated fat, mostly from the beef and the cheddar.
Our build has about 560 mg of sodium, since its beef and beans are cooked without salt. A restaurant’s can carry a lot more. In the same USDA table, a cup of canned kidney beans has 873 mg, and a fast food taco salad of a cup and a half has 762 mg.
The grade has no change to suggest. If you eat it often, we’d still swap the ground beef for a palm of grilled chicken, which brings it to about 620 calories with 47 g of protein and about 12 g of saturated fat. Leaving off the tortilla strips saves another 142 calories.
The six meters
- Energyfits710 cal
- Processingwhole80% whole food
- Musclehigh42 g protein
- Hungerfilling14.3 g fiber, 1.2 cal a gram
- Nutrientsdense3 cups of plants
- Glucosesteady2 g fast carbs
Each meter's name opens its page on meals.guide, which explains the six jobs a meal does.
Sodium 560 mg, 74% of a meal's share of the day's 2,300 mg. Salt isn't one of the six meters, so it never changes the grade.
Part by part
| Ingredient | Amount | Calories | Protein | Fiber |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romaine | 3 cups, 168 g | 24 | 3 g | 3 g |
| Ground beef | a palm, 3 oz, 85 g | 231 | 21 g | 0 g |
| Black beans | half a cup, 86 g | 114 | 7.5 g | 7.5 g |
| Cheddar cheese | 1 oz, 28 g | 114 | 7 g | 0 g |
| Tomato | 1 tomato, 123 g | 26 | 1 g | 1.4 g |
| Salsa | 2 tbsp, 32 g | 8 | 0 g | 0.6 g |
| Sour cream | 2 tbsp, 24 g | 52 | 0 g | 0 g |
| Tortilla strips | 1 oz, 28 g | 142 | 2 g | 1.8 g |
| Total | 574 g | 711 | 42 g | 14.3 g |
At three amounts of dressing
| Sour cream | Calories | Dressing's share | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 tbsp | 680 | 4% | A |
| 2 tbsp | 710 | 7% | A+ |
| 4 tbsp, a ladle or a 2 oz cup | 760 | 14% | A+ |
This bowl clears all six meters as it is. The meters don't count saturated fat or salt, so look at the parts above too.
Graded on meals.guide's six meters for a 170 lb person eating 2,000 calories over three meals. Food values from the USDA's Nutritive Value of Foods.
1 sources
- Gebhardt SE, Thomas RG. Nutritive Value of Foods. USDA ARS, Home and Garden Bulletin 72, 2002ars.usda.gov
