Portions and preparation · USDA nutrition
1 cup (120 g) of burrito bowl, chicken, with beans and rice has about 174 calories. Choose your preparation and adjust the amount below.
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Estimated for 1 cup · 120 g
174calories
Burrito bowl, chicken, with beans and rice
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FoodData Central Survey Foods (FNDDS) · FDC 2708563 Full nutrition profile →
Match the protein, rice, and beans in your burrito bowl, then size the portion you ate. Extra scoops and toppings can make a custom bowl different from any single example.
A worked portion example
Illustrative calculation: 1 cup weighs 120 g using the linked record's portion weight. At 145 calories per 100 g, 120 × 145 ÷ 100 = about 174 calories and 15.6 g protein. The linked cup is 120 g and the recipe already includes cheese. A full restaurant bowl may contain several such amounts.
Check the exact food and household measure →The options distinguish chicken or beef-and-pork examples and whether rice and beans are present. A container size does not reveal the amount of each ingredient. For a restaurant with a build-your-own nutrition calculator, use the actual scoops and choices you ordered when available.
The chicken-with-beans-and-rice example includes cheese among its ingredients, even though the short dish name does not say cheese. Additional cheese, guacamole, sour cream, and dressing still need attention. Use a component-based calculation when you know the bowl's build rather than adding every visible ingredient on top of a complete-dish total.
If the bowl is well mixed, the weight of your portion divided by the whole bowl's weight is a useful share to apply. If you mostly eat the chicken and leave much of the rice, half the total weight may no longer describe half of each ingredient. Note that difference when you log leftovers.
Editorial update: . Portion examples are calculations from the linked USDA records.
A burrito bowl is a format, not a fixed recipe. The selected USDA records make the effect of meat, beans, rice, and reported portion weight visible without pretending that one number describes every bowl.
Across all 9 named USDA examples, a cup contains 155–256 calories. Each included example lists 120 g for that measure. The same household label can carry a different gram weight elsewhere in USDA data.
Match my meal
For Burrito bowl, begin by separating “Burrito bowl, with beans” from “Burrito bowl, beef or pork, with beans and rice.” Choosing a card filters this source set; it does not infer the portion or fill in ingredients the chosen description does not name.
Showing the first 6 of 9 linked records.
Equal-weight view
Five rank landmarks are shown from all 9 cited records: minimum, 25th-ranked, median-ranked, 75th-ranked, and maximum. Weight is held at 100 grams; source-serving weights are listed in the table.
Shared basis: 100 g · kilocalories
What this page compares
This guide keeps 9 named USDA records in view: 9 direct matches. All sit within “Other Mexican mixed dishes.” The exact descriptions remain the unit of comparison; the familiar heading is only the doorway into the evidence.
For Burrito bowl, this page can compare 9 named records from FDC 2708564 through FDC 2708559. It cannot observe which preparation was eaten, recover unnamed additions, or supply the eaten grams.
Read the shared calculation, provenance, and uncertainty method →
Editor’s decision brief
Carry the denominator, exact identity, and strongest observed contrast into every number below.
Portion
The largest source amount is 1.4× the smallest. Read per-serving calorie differences with that mass gap in view.
Composition
The lower endpoint is “with beans”; the higher is “beef or pork.” This isolates density, not ingredient causation.
Discriminator
Of protein, fiber, and sodium, the strongest normalized contrast is between “beef or pork” (0.0 g) and “with beans” (5.7 g).
Observed source examples
The cards are ordered by calories in each record's listed serving. Serving weights differ, so use per-100-gram values to compare composition. These selected records do not define a calorie range for every burrito bowl.
290kcal
225 g source amount · 129 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record435kcal
270 g source amount · 161 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact record539kcal
315 g source amount · 171 kcal per 100 g
Inspect this exact recordImportant: “Lower” begins with Burrito bowl, with beans; “higher” ends with Burrito bowl, beef or pork, with beans and rice, using each record’s own source amount. Those labels order this selected set only—they are not endpoints for every burrito bowl meal.
Full comparison
For Burrito bowl, serving columns preserve each record’s own listed amount, while calories per 100 g hold weight constant. A dash means the cited record does not supply that field; it does not mean the nutrient is absent.
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| Exact source record | Match | Source amount | Calories | kcal / 100 g | Protein | Fiber | Sodium | USDA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burrito bowl, with beans | Direct name match | 225 gUSDA reference amount | 290 kcal | 129 | 18.1 g | 12.8 g | 666 mg | FDC 2708564 ↗ |
| Burrito bowl, chicken | Direct name match | 225 gUSDA reference amount | 362 kcal | 161 | 47.3 g | 0 g | 677 mg | FDC 2708560 ↗ |
| Burrito bowl, chicken, with beans | Direct name match | 270 gUSDA reference amount | 365 kcal | 135 | 36.7 g | 4.9 g | 932 mg | FDC 2708562 ↗ |
| Burrito bowl, chicken, with rice | Direct name match | 270 gUSDA reference amount | 419 kcal | 155 | 33.8 g | 0.5 g | 748 mg | FDC 2708561 ↗ |
| Burrito bowl, chicken, with beans and rice | Direct name match | 315 gUSDA reference amount | 457 kcal | 145 | 41 g | 3.2 g | 980 mg | FDC 2708563 ↗ |
| Burrito bowl, beef or pork | Direct name match | 225 gUSDA reference amount | 479 kcal | 213 | 45 g | 0 g | 668 mg | FDC 2708556 ↗ |
| Burrito bowl, beef or pork, with beans | Direct name match | 270 gUSDA reference amount | 435 kcal | 161 | 35.4 g | 4.9 g | 929 mg | FDC 2708558 ↗ |
| Burrito bowl, beef or pork, with rice | Direct name match | 270 gUSDA reference amount | 489 kcal | 181 | 32.1 g | 0.5 g | 745 mg | FDC 2708557 ↗ |
| Burrito bowl, beef or pork, with beans and rice | Direct name match | 315 gUSDA reference amount | 539 kcal | 171 | 39.4 g | 3.2 g | 977 mg | FDC 2708559 ↗ |
Portion analysis
The listed source amounts run from 225 to 315 grams—a 90-gram gap before composition enters the comparison. Their own source servings run from 290 calories for “with beans” to 539 for “beef or pork, with beans and rice.” At a fixed 100 grams, “with beans” is 129 calories and “beef or pork” is 213—a fixed-weight separation of 84 calories. For Burrito bowl, the serving view answers “how much is in the database portion?”; the 100-gram view answers “how concentrated is the matched record?” Neither reveals how many grams were actually eaten.
The scaling rule: multiply a per-100-gram value by eaten grams ÷ 100. The arithmetic is exact; the result is only as defensible as the record match and portion estimate.
Preparation analysis
The published descriptions distinguish forms such as “with beans”, “chicken, with beans”, “chicken, with beans and rice”, “beef or pork, with beans”, and “beef or pork, with beans and rice”. Across the source formulations, the shared backbone includes cheese and queso as ingredient and salt, table; differentiating rows include beverages, water, tap, drinking, refried beans, canned, traditional, reduced sodium, beef as ingredient in recipes, and chicken as ingredient in recipes. On this Burrito bowl page, those rows make the records inspectable, but they are not a controlled experiment: they cannot tell us that one named input, by itself, caused a nutrient difference.
Database precision is not meal certainty. Retain the exact description beside the number so later corrections remain possible.
What changes the comparison
The family label “Burrito bowl” cannot resolve the differences between Burrito bowl, with beans and Burrito bowl, beef or pork, with beans and rice. The four checks below identify the record wording, source weight, and formulation evidence that can.
The selected source servings span 225–315 grams, so portion mass materially changes the serving total.
These components alter both calorie density and the amount of carbohydrate and fiber represented by the source record.
Chicken records and beef-or-pork records are separate FNDDS profiles rather than interchangeable labels.
Cheese, creamy toppings, guacamole, and sauces can be difficult to infer when they are not named in the matched record.
Record matching
Read the source name as a sequence of decisions. First confirm that burrito bowl is the right meal family. Then resolve the phrases that actually separate this set—“with beans”, “chicken, with rice”, “beef or pork”, and “beef or pork, with beans and rice”—before comparing gram weight. If a package, menu, or known recipe provides a closer first-party description, prefer it and keep this USDA record as a transparent fallback.
Explore this meal family
Use a focused guide when its description matches your meal. Each one keeps its own exact source records and links back to this broader family.
Decision support from the exact records on this page
These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 9 exact records behind Burrito bowl source-record guide. Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.
Equal-weight result
Burrito bowl, with beans reports 5.7 g versus 0 g for Burrito bowl, beef or pork: a 5.7 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.
Inspect the underlying evidenceThe denominator changes the answer
Burrito bowl, chicken reports 161 kcal per 100 g and 362 kcal in USDA source amount (225 g). Burrito bowl, chicken, with beans and rice reports a lower 145 kcal per 100 g but a higher 457 kcal in USDA source amount (315 g).
Record identity is part of the estimate
These are separate USDA records with separate formulations or survey descriptions. Match preparation, additions, and the named household amount before borrowing either record’s nutrients.
Inspect the underlying evidenceContextual knowledge graph
For Burrito bowl source-record guide, each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.
Burrito bowl, with beans and Burrito bowl, chicken belong to this USDA source-category collection. Its displayed ranges and complete exact-record catalog provide the peer set for a manual comparison; the destination does not preselect this page’s record.
Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Beverages, water, tap, drinkingUSDA input 14411 appears in 8 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 5–10 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.
Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Refried beans, canned, traditional, reduced sodiumUSDA input 16403 appears in 5 of 9 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 15–30 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.
Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Dietary fiber: density and serving contextIn this page’s records, dietary fiber runs from 0 g in Burrito bowl, beef or pork to 5.7 g in Burrito bowl, with beans, all per 100 g.
Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Iron: density and serving contextIn this page’s records, iron runs from 0.5 mg in Burrito bowl, chicken to 1.7 mg in Burrito bowl, beef or pork, all per 100 g.
Follow this evidence path Inspect an exact record Burrito bowl, with beansOpen the full nutrient table, household measures, formulation inputs, and FoodData Central 2708564 citation for this exact record—not a name-level average.
Follow this evidence path 9 records share this broad food family Mixed dishes: broader category contextBurrito bowl, with beans and Burrito bowl, chicken, plus 7 more are assigned to Feast’s Mixed dishes editorial category. Use the category page to compare nearby foods at a broad level; keep the exact USDA descriptions on this page for record-level decisions.
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