Mini Taco Salad
Mini Taco Salad at Taco Bell. 280 calories, $2.49, 9 g protein.
Photograph from Taco Bell, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the Taco Bell menu
At 280 calories it is lighter than 53% of the 290 Taco Bell items we track, against a menu median of 283. Scored on Taco Bell's own printed label, it comes to +8 on the label score, 2nd of 41 Taco Bell items we can score that way. It delivers 3.3 g of protein per 100 calories, 49th of 92 items with published protein. At 112 calories per dollar it is 42nd of 113 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at Taco Bell
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Sweet Chipotle BBQ Crispy Chicken Taco | 270 | −10 |
| Avocado Ranch Crispy Chicken Taco | 270 | −10 |
| Cantina Chicken Soft Taco | 260 | −20 |
| Spicy Ranchero Crispy Chicken Taco | 260 | −20 |
| Crispy Chicken Soft Taco | 260 | −20 |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendy's | Taco Salad | 610 | — |
What a Mini Taco Salad costs across America
Priced at 7541 Taco Bell restaurants in 51 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $2.49 and $2.89, a spread of 16%.
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 Mini Taco Salad in the sample is $2.49 in Bridgeville, PA, and the most expensive is $6.99 in Farmington, CT. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OH | $2.49 | 401 | cheapest |
| NY | $2.49 | 251 | cheapest |
| SC | $2.49 | 116 | cheapest |
| AZ | $2.49 | 192 | cheapest |
| HI | $3.49 | 29 | most expensive |
| AK | $2.99 | 15 | most expensive |
| WA | $2.99 | 140 | most expensive |
| OR | $2.99 | 119 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
None of the 460 restaurants we price has changed this since 2026-09-01. A typical one charges $2.49.
See every Mini Taco Salad we price on the map — 7,541 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at Taco Bell
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Mini Taco Salad’s $2.49. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Cheese Chicken Flatbread Melt | $2.49 | 26% | 7,542 |
| Cinnabon Delights® 2 Pack | $2.59 | 37% | 7,381 |
| Bean Burrito | $2.39 | 50% | 7,746 |
| Pintos N Cheese | $2.79 | 33% | 7,717 |
| Beefy Potato Loaded Griller | $2.79 | 7% | 7,406 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 0.36 g |
| Calcium | 113.48 mg |
| Cholesterol | 17.71 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 5.68 g |
| Iron | 2.35 mg |
| Potassium | 319.3 mg |
| Protein | 9.12 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3.84 g |
| Sodium | 491.91 mg |
| Sugars | 1.69 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 26.65 g |
| Total Fat | 15.2 g |
| Trans Fat | 0.14 g |
| Vitamin A | 7.77 mcg |
| Vitamin C | 3.26 mg |
| Vitamin D | 1.6 mcg |
The nutrition label as Taco Bell publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.