Protein at Taco Bell
Every chain menu in America is required to show you calories. Not one is required to print protein on the menu. So here it is — 11 Taco Bell items, using the figures Taco Bell publishes.
Source: nutrition data from Taco Bell, published via Nutritionix — the operator's designated nutrition portal, rather than a document Taco Bell hosts itself — read 12 October 2026.
Ranked by protein
This operator publishes protein but not serving weights, so protein per 100 g — the figure that tells you how dense a plate is — cannot be worked out from their numbers. These are ranked by total protein, and nothing here is estimated to fill the gap.
| Item | Protein |
|---|---|
| Cantina Chicken Rolled Quesadillacantina chicken rolled quesadilla, standard build | 33 g |
| Cantina Chicken Bowlcantina chicken bowl, standard build | 26 g |
| Quesadilla - Chickenchicken quesadilla, standard build | 26 g |
| Quesadilla - Steaksteak quesadilla, standard build | 26 g |
| Crispy Chicken Nuggets - 5 Piecefive crispy chicken nuggets | 26 g |
| Cantina Chicken Burritocantina chicken burrito, standard build | 24 g |
| 3-Cheese Chicken Flatbread Meltchicken and three-cheese flatbread melt | 20 g |
| Burrito Supreme - Chickenchicken burrito supreme, standard build | 19 g |
| Naked Chicken Chalupachalupa with a crispy chicken shell, standard build | 19 g |
| Crunchwrap Supremecrunchwrap supreme, standard build | 15 g |
| Cantina Chicken Crispy Tacocantina chicken crispy taco, standard build | 15 g |
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