Taco Bell Cantina Chicken Burrito price: $6.29, the dearest here

$6.29 posted by Taco Bell for the Cantina Chicken Burrito, the dearest burrito in the section.

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$6.29 is the highest price Taco Bell posts against any burrito. It sits 30 cents above the two crispy chicken rows at $5.99, 60 cents above the Grilled Cheese Burrito and $4.80 above the Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito at the other end of the same sixteen.

The calorie count does not follow the price. 570 Cal puts this burrito fifth of sixteen on volume, behind the Crispy Chicken Chipotle Bacon Melt Burrito at 700, the Grilled Cheese Burrito at 690, the Black Bean Grilled Cheese Burrito at 680 and the Avocado Ranch Crispy Chicken Burrito at 650, every one of which is cheaper. Being the dearest row and the fifth largest is an awkward combination, and it produces a return of about 91 calories a dollar, second worst in the section.

What's in it

Shredded chicken marinated and slow-cooked, with seasoned rice, black beans, cheese, avocado ranch sauce and pico de gallo in a warm flour tortilla. The Cantina range is Taco Bell's fresher-ingredient line and the chicken is its selling point. Calories are the only nutrition figure published, so the protein content that would justify the price cannot be checked at all: the company's per-item panel returns nothing an automated read can use.

Is it worth it

The cleanest test available is the taco comparison. Two Cantina Chicken tacos, one crispy and one soft, cost $6.38 for 580 Cal against $6.29 for 570 here. Nine cents and ten calories separate a burrito from two tacos built on the same chicken, which suggests Taco Bell is pricing the Cantina protein by quantity and letting the format follow.

Against the rest of the section it loses badly, as everything over six dollars would. A Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito returns 268 calories a dollar and this returns 91, so the cheap end of the same list delivers nearly three times the food for the money. That comparison ignores chicken entirely, which is exactly the problem with it: no protein figure exists on this menu to weigh against the beans.

The meal at $11.69 adds $5.40 to the burrito, with a published calorie band of 960 to 1,380. Nothing outside Taco Bell prices either the burrito or the meal, so both figures stand on the company's own pages with the company's own note that prices vary by restaurant.

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