$1.49 posted by Taco Bell for the Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito, at 400 Cal the best value on the menu.
The Taco Bell Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito price is $1.49, printed on three of the company's own pages with 400 Cal beside it. That works out at roughly 268 calories a dollar, which beats every burrito, every taco and every specialty this site lists, by a wide margin. It is also the cheapest burrito Taco Bell posts, fifty cents under the Bean Burrito.
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What you need
4 itemsCheesy Bean and Rice Burrito price and calories
| Item | Typical price | Price range | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito | $1.49 official | — | 400 Cal |
If something goes wrong
Is the Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito really cheaper than the Bean Burrito?
- Cause
- Taco Bell posts $1.49 here and $1.99 for the Bean Burrito, with calorie counts of 400 and 360. The cheaper row carries 40 calories more, which inverts the usual relationship between price and portion.
- Fix
- Order this one where either would do. Fifty cents saved and forty calories gained is as clear a comparison as this menu produces.
Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito is not on my value menu
- Cause
- It appeared on the company's burritos page, its value menu page and its best-sellers page on 19 August 2026, at $1.49 on each. Three first-party sightings is the strongest corroboration any burrito here carries.
- Fix
- Look under burritos if the value section does not show it. Value-tier membership is applied restaurant by restaurant even where the national listing holds.
Why does no price range appear for this burrito?
- Cause
- Not one of the four lists checked that August carries the row. Those lists concentrate on about fifteen well-known items and this row is not among them, so there is nothing to place beside the company's own figure.
- Fix
- Read $1.49 as Taco Bell's list price with three internal confirmations behind it. That is better evidence than a contested range on a famous row.
The strongest number on the menu, on the cheapest row
Divide calories by price across every burrito, every taco and every specialty here, and one row finishes first by a distance. 400 Cal for $1.49 is about 268 calories a dollar. The next best is the Bean Burrito at 181, then the Cheesy Double Beef Burrito at 187 and the Spicy Potato Soft Taco at 173. Nothing else reaches 200.
The margin is worth stating in cash. A Crunchwrap Supreme costs $6.89 and carries 530 Cal; four of these burritos cost $5.96 and carry 1,600. Nobody suggests eating four, and the comparison is about pricing structure rather than about lunch. What it shows is that Taco Bell charges very little for beans, rice and a tortilla and a great deal for assembly, for shells and for named proteins.
What's in it
Refried beans, seasoned rice, nacho cheese sauce, cheddar and a chipotle sauce in a warm flour tortilla. No meat, no second wrapper and no shell, which is exactly why it costs $1.49. Taco Bell publishes 400 Cal for the build and no macro figures at all, because the company's per-item nutrition panel returns nothing readable and its nutrition index page has gone.
Is it worth it
On the published arithmetic this is the best-value item on the Taco Bell menu that this site covers, and it is not a close contest. Against the Bean Burrito, the row it most resembles, it is fifty cents cheaper and forty calories larger. Against the dear half of the burrito section it returns between two and four times as much food per dollar.
The obvious caveat is that calories are a crude measure of value and the only one available here. Taco Bell publishes no protein, fat or sodium figure for any item, so a rice-and-bean burrito and a chicken burrito are compared on the single axis where the cheap starch always wins. A reader buying for protein has no published basis for the comparison at all, and that gap belongs to the company.
What can be said with confidence is that the price itself is unusually well founded. Three separate Taco Bell pages carried $1.49 on the same day, which is more internal agreement than the Crunchwrap Supreme or the Chalupa Supreme managed, and the company's standard note applies: prices vary by restaurant.
Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito at a glance
- Taco Bell price
- $1.49
- Calories
- 400, from Taco Bell
Questions people ask
How much is the Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito?
$1.49, posted by Taco Bell on three of its own pages and read on 19 August 2026. The company states that prices vary by restaurant.
How many calories are in it?
400, published by Taco Bell. The Bean Burrito carries 360 for fifty cents more.
Is this the best value item at Taco Bell?
On calories per dollar, across the burritos, the tacos and the specialties sections, yes. About 268 a dollar beats the next best by more than 80.
Why is it cheaper than the Bean Burrito?
No explanation is published. Both prices came off the company's own pages on the same day, at $1.49 and $1.99, with the cheaper row carrying 40 calories more.
Is this page an official Taco Bell price list?
No. HelpMeLogin reports on the company and is not connected to it. The $1.49 shown is the company's own posted figure with the date it was read.
Can this site tell me the price at my local Taco Bell?
No. Value-tier pricing differs between restaurants and Taco Bell says so itself. Select yours in the app for a figure that applies to you.