My very important tortilla research says that the Mission extra thin tortillas (right side) are actually fewer calories per square inch surface area compared to the street taco tortillas pictured on the left. Thought you should know.
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Posting this because I see posts in other subs about how low calorie the street taco tortillas are. I was really surprised by their small size, so I did a comparison of calories per surface area. The street taco tortillas are 2.075 calories per sq inch surface and the extra thin variety is 1.68 calories per sq inch.
I have to hand it to the marketing department for coming up with a way to sell a cheaper-to-make smaller product as something novel and desirable. In case you are wondering about the taste, the street taco tortillas were just okay, nothing spectacular. I’ll stick with the extra thin tortillas. They’re tasty and have more crunch.
Thank you for this important research!
This is very educational! I cross-posted to r/volumeeating. Thank you!
I’m curious, did you try weighing the two? You’d be surprised that sometimes packaged bakery goods like tortillas, wraps, bread are off by quite a bit, and they tend to err on the side of being larger than the serving size. There is a “low calorie” wrap from Aldi that claims 80 calories for about 56G serving size wrap, but they are always at least 70G. I’m wondering if the left tortilla actually comes out ahead if the weight is that variable.
Just a bit of warning, Food packaging labels are legally allowed to be incredibly deceiving.
Some products are off by 20% in their displayed calorie counts.
lol thank you!
Great thanks! I just bought a pack of the street taco tortillas, will purchase the thin ones next!
Thank you for your dedication to science
Thank you for your service, kind friend.
Too bad they’re made of corn 🙁
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Do you need 20 dexterity with high rolls to keep your burrito from breaking? Im fine with a little spillage but if it is gonna fall apart I’d rather just make a bowl
Fun fact, you can make tortillas by blending corn and water to a dough consistency. In the O.G totilla shops in Mexico, that’s literally all the “ingredients” they use
So this totally seems like something my ADHD-ass brain would fixate on for an hour or so… but if you were researching this to figure out how to get the absolute best calorie for your buck, that seems a bit excessive. Just make sure you’re not slipping into disordered eating.
Extreme Wellness tortilla/wraps. 50 cals, with protein and like 5g of fiber.
Just avoid buying mission. Look for other brands if available
Lmao. Once again science and extreme (obsessive) calorie counting missed the whole point of authentic Mexican food. If you’ve ever had real street tacos from a food cart you’ll understand the point of the very thick small tortillas.
Although the thin ones are absolutely the best for baking into chips.