Taco Bueno Nutrition For Dieters

Taco Bueno Nutrition For Dieters
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Most dieters and health-conscious people wouldn’t automatically think “Mexican food” while considering where to have dinner. After all, American-style Mexican food is often loaded with cheese, guacamole, sour cream, and many other high-fat condiments.

However, Taco Bueno, a Mexican food restaurant with locations throughout the American south, is the exception to this rule. Taco Bueno offers many options that won’t break the calorie bank, while also offering lots of options for friends and family members who “don’t want diet food”. If you’re planning a night out, don’t want to abandon all dietary common sense, and are craving something spicy, here’s what you need to know about Taco Bueno nutrition.

Taco Bueno’s Helpful Nutrition Information

Usually, the first thing a diet-conscious customer does when considering dinner options is look up nutritional information. A quick look at the Taco Bueno nutrition information, available at the Taco Bueno main website, shows how committed the restaurant is to helping customers make good choices.

Most restaurants’ “nutrition information disclosures” consist of rows of tiny print listing the total calories, fat, fiber, and sodium of complete entrees. Taco Bueno does more. They arrange the nutrition information in columns by category, enabling the reader to simply scan down the page to find the options lowest in calories, fat, sodium, or carbs.

The nutrition information also provides something almost no other restaurant does: it gives the nutritional information after the diner omits specific ingredients. For example, the Beef Muchacho is listed at 496 calories with refried beans, and 392 calories without. Finally, Taco Bueno’s entrees are themselves surprisingly lean. While there are a few that list four-figure calorie counts, the majority are in the easily-managed 400-600 calorie range.

Even though the majority of the the Taco Bueno menu items won’t ruin a diet, the Taco Bueno nutrition information shows there are some you might want to stay away from. First among these are the “ultimate gourmet burritos”. For example, the Ultimate Steak Gourmet Burrito contains 1010 calories and 31 grams of fat. Other items to watch out for are the taco salads with all the trimmings.

The Beef Taco Salad has 1043 calories and a whopping 75 grams of fat. That’s one gram short of the amount of fat the average person should eat in an entire day, according to Discovery Health. Chicken taco salads aren’t much better, coming in at 838 calories and 57 grams of fat. Finally, watch out for nachos. The Mucho Nacho platter has 1567 calories and even more fat than the Beef Taco Salad (a scale-tipping 97 grams).

Just as the Taco Bueno nutrition information can help steer you away from high-calorie entrees, it can also help you discover how many tasty-sounding items are worth ordering. Take, for example, the potato burritos. The beef potato burrito has a mere 358 calories, and while it seems a tad high in fat, the 21 grams contained in this entree are only about 30% of the RDA (easily manageable if you eat a healthy breakfast and lunch). The chicken potato burrito comes in at 327 calories and 18 grams of fat. Other options include the chicken tortilla soup (a mere 237 calories and 11 grams of fat, even with fried tortilla strips).

Should you feel the need for sides to round out your meal, there is the Cilantro Lime Rice, which, at 140 calories and a fourth of a gram of fat, can help create a dinner even a dietician could love.

References

Scherer, Elizabeth. (2010). How Many Grams of Fat Can I Eat in a Day? Retrieved 15 March, 2010 from https://health.discovery.com/centers/articles/articles.html?chrome=c14a&article=LC_104&center=p05

Taco Bueno. (2010). Taco Bueno Nutrition Information. Retrieved 15 March, 2010 from [https://www.tacobueno.com/index.php?section=6](/tools/from http:/www.tacobueno.com/index.php?section=6)