Black Beans and Rice
Black Beans and Rice at Taco Bell. 160 calories, $2.19, 4 g protein.
Photograph from Taco Bell, as published on its own menu.
Taco Bell lists this item as available meatless.
How it compares on the Taco Bell menu
At 160 calories it is lighter than 82% of the 290 Taco Bell items we track, against a menu median of 283. It delivers 2.6 g of protein per 100 calories, 59th of 92 items with published protein. At 73 calories per dollar it is 77th of 113 priced items on value.
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popeyes | Large Red Beans & Rice | 640 | — |
What a Black Beans and Rice costs across America
Priced at 7637 Taco Bell restaurants in 51 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.79 and $2.89, a spread of 61%.
Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.
Point at a bar, or tab to it, for the count and the share of restaurants at that price.
The cheapest Black Beans and Rice in the sample is $1.39 in Hereford, TX, and the most expensive is $5.99 in Universal City, CA. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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By state, for what it is worth
About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 50 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 42 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL | $1.59 | 162 | cheapest |
| HI | $1.69 | 29 | cheapest |
| MN | $1.79 | 101 | cheapest |
| WV | $1.79 | 70 | cheapest |
| WA | $2.99 | 140 | most expensive |
| DC | $2.79 | 7 | most expensive |
| IL | $2.79 | 285 | most expensive |
| VA | $2.79 | 198 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
2 of the 532 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. A typical one now charges $2.29.
2026-09-01 · $2.19 to 2026-09-26 · $2.29. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.
The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.
See every Black Beans and Rice we price on the map — 7,637 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at Taco Bell
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Black Beans and Rice’s $2.19. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crunchy Taco | $1.99 | 16% | 7,754 |
| Soft Taco | $1.99 | 16% | 7,752 |
| Cheesy Toasted Breakfast Burrito Bacon | $1.99 | 47% | 3,480 |
| Hash Brown | $1.99 | 25% | 3,480 |
| Cheesy Toasted Breakfast Burrito Potato | $1.99 | 50% | 3,420 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 0.23 g |
| Calcium | 22.7 mg |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4.95 g |
| Iron | 1.31 mg |
| Potassium | 193.07 mg |
| Protein | 4.18 g |
| Saturated Fat | 0.42 g |
| Sodium | 368.23 mg |
| Sugars | 0.65 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 24.97 g |
| Total Fat | 4.56 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
| Vitamin A | 0 mcg |
| Vitamin C | 0 mg |
| Vitamin D | 0 mcg |
The nutrition label as Taco Bell publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.