Black Beans and Rice at Taco Bell. 160 calories, $2.99.
Taco Bell lists this item as available meatless.
At 160 calories it is lighter than 90% of the 103 Taco Bell items we track, against a menu median of 350.
Priced at 412 Taco Bell restaurants in 50 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 bar gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest of the chart.
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 — 331% more. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 38 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 30 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL | $1.59 | 8 | cheapest |
| MN | $1.79 | 6 | cheapest |
| WV | $1.79 | 5 | cheapest |
| TN | $1.89 | 14 | cheapest |
| IL | $2.89 | 15 | most expensive |
| VA | $2.79 | 11 | most expensive |
| MI | $2.79 | 17 | most expensive |
| CT | $2.69 | 4 | most expensive |
Calorie and price data come from Taco Bell's own ordering system. USDA does not publish a full nutrient panel for this item.