Large Nacho Fries at Taco Bell. 500 calories, $3.89.

Photograph from Taco Bell, as published on its own menu.
Taco Bell lists this item as available meatless.
At 500 calories it is heavier than 80% of the 290 Taco Bell items we track, against a menu median of 283. At 129 calories per dollar it is 28th of 113 priced items on value.
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Fresca Pepper Jack Steak Burrito | 497 | −3 |
| Nachos Supreme | 494 | −6 |
| Chicken Quesadilla | 490 | −10 |
| Beefy 5-Layer Burrito | 490 | −10 |
| Fresca Creamy Jalapeno Steak Burrito | 490 | −10 |
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendy's | Pub Fries | 460 | — |
| Wendy's | Cheese Fries | 470 | — |
Priced at 7343 Taco Bell restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $3.59 and $3.99, a spread of 11%.
It is on the menu at 7343 of the 7757 restaurants sampled, so it is not carried everywhere.
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 Large Nacho Fries in the sample is $3.19 in Los Angeles, CA, and the most expensive is $7.49 in Universal City, CA. 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | $3.49 | 85 | cheapest |
| ND | $3.49 | 12 | cheapest |
| MS | $3.59 | 72 | cheapest |
| ID | $3.59 | 32 | cheapest |
| AK | $4.99 | 15 | most expensive |
| HI | $4.59 | 25 | most expensive |
| NH | $4.29 | 12 | most expensive |
| ME | $4.29 | 7 | most expensive |
36 of the 1,176 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +4.5%. A typical one now charges $3.69.
2026-09-01 · $3.79 to 2026-09-26 · $3.69. 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.
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Large Nacho Fries’s $3.79. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nacho Cheese Doritos® Locos Tacos Supreme® | $3.99 | 20% | 7,644 |
| Breakfast Quesadilla Sausage | $4.19 | 39% | 365 |
| Meximelt® | $3.29 | 10% | 2,604 |
| Grande Toasted Breakfast Burrito Sausage | $4.49 | 35% | 352 |
| Chili Cheese Burrito | $3.00 | 33% | 1,865 |
Calorie and price data come from Taco Bell's own ordering system. USDA does not publish a full nutrient panel for this item.