How many calories are in a corn tortilla?
One 6-inch corn tortilla weighs 24 g and carries 52 calories. Per 100 g it runs 218 calories, one point above the reduced-calorie wheat bread USDA lists at 217. The two-tortilla serving on most US bags comes to 105 calories, and nearly all of that is corn starch rather than fat.
You'd need to walk about 10 minutes to burn the 52 calories in one 6-inch tortilla (24 g).
How long does it take to burn off a corn tortilla?
One 6-inch tortilla (24 g) is 52 kcal. Enter your weight and the amount you ate to see how long it takes you to burn that off:
lb
| Activity | Time to burn 52 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 10 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 6 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 7 min |
| Jogging | 6 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 12 min |
Times are for a 155 lb adult at a steady pace; change the weight to see yours. The amount is set to the portion in the text (24 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Corn tortilla quick facts
- US servings, from one tortilla to a stack of three
- No-salt, blue corn, chips and tacos
- Fiber is the row that surprises people
- How does a corn tortilla compare?
- Most popular corn tortilla brands
- FAQ
Corn tortilla quick facts
The number a person searching for this is holding is a plain, uncooked-through corn tortilla out of a bag, not a taco. That is SR Legacy 175036, "Tortillas, ready-to-bake or -fry, corn" — the only complete row for the tortilla by itself. The FNDDS entry 2707823 repeats the same values and only adds household measures, so nothing is averaged here.
USDA's household size for that record is 1 tortilla at 24 g, the 6-inch round most US brands sell. Everything in the right-hand column below is that one tortilla.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 tortilla (24 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 218 | 52 | — |
| Total fat | 2.85 g | 0.7 g | 1% |
| Saturated fat | 0.45 g | 0.1 g | 1% |
| Carbohydrate | 44.64 g | 10.7 g | 4% |
| Dietary fiber | 6.3 g | 1.5 g | 5% |
| Total sugars | 0.88 g | 0.2 g | — |
| Protein | 5.7 g | 1.4 g | 3% |
| Sodium | 45 mg | 11 mg | 0% |
% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet.
Verified nutrition data
Numbers on this page come from USDA FoodData Central, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food composition database, and from manufacturer labels where a branded product is named. Last verified September 2026. How we verify our data →
Two rows you would see on a printed package are missing above: added sugars and trans fat, because USDA does not publish either value for this SR Legacy record. Cholesterol is a clean 0 mg, as you would expect from corn and lime. Potassium comes to 186 mg per 100 g, or 45 mg per tortilla — 1% of the Daily Value, which is not a number worth planning around.
US servings, from one tortilla to a stack of three
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 enchilada-size tortilla | 19 g | 41 kcal |
| 1 tortilla, 6-inch | 24 g | 52 kcal |
| 1 oz | 28 g | 62 kcal |
| 2 tortillas, the usual bag serving | 48 g | 105 kcal |
| 3 tortillas | 72 g | 157 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 218 kcal |
The 19 g and 24 g lines are USDA household measures for this record. The 48 g and 72 g lines are our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not USDA servings — but they are the ones that matter, because almost nobody eats a single corn tortilla and almost every US bag prints its Nutrition Facts on two.
Street tacos are the other place the count slips. USDA has no row labeled "street taco tortilla," so the honest stand-in is the enchilada size: 19 g and 41 calories. Order three street tacos and the tortillas alone are roughly 123 calories before anything is spooned on top.
Brands land close to USDA but not on it. Per 100 g, Don Pancho comes in at 192, Mission yellow corn at 200, Guerrero at 213, Guerrero white corn at 216 and Mi Pueblo at 220 — a spread of 28 calories per 100 g across the shelf. Most of those bags print two tortillas as the serving and land at 100 to 110 calories, which is why 105 is a safe mental default when you have no package in front of you.
No-salt, blue corn, chips and tacos
| Version | Per 100 g | Typical piece | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corn tortilla, plain (main record) | 218 kcal | 1 tortilla, 24 g | 52 kcal |
| Corn tortilla, no added salt | 222 kcal | 1 medium 6-inch, 26 g | 58 kcal |
| Blue corn tortilla, Hopi style | 276 kcal | 1 tortilla, 24 g | 66 kcal |
| Tortilla chips, salted white corn | 472 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 134 kcal |
| Tortilla chips, unsalted white corn | 503 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 143 kcal |
| Beef and cheese taco, corn tortilla | 249 kcal | 1 taco, 105 g | 261 kcal |
| Bean and cheese taco, corn tortilla | 176 kcal | 1 taco, 105 g | 185 kcal |
The unsalted tortilla is not the diet version. It is slightly denser per gram than the salted one, 222 against 218, and USDA's household piece for it is 26 g instead of 24 g, so a single unsalted tortilla is 58 calories. What changes is sodium: 11 mg per 100 g instead of 45 mg. The blue corn record is a traditional Hopi tortilla, drier and saltier, at 276 calories per 100 g and 663 mg of sodium per 100 g — 66 calories and 159 mg for a 24 g piece, our arithmetic from the 100 g figures.
Then the two rows that actually decide your day. Fry the same corn into chips and it goes to 472 calories per 100 g salted, 503 unsalted, because the oil is the ingredient you added. Fill the tortilla instead and you get 261 calories for a beef-and-cheese taco or 185 for a bean-and-cheese one, both at USDA's 105 g piece size. The tortilla is 52 of that. The other 209 calories in the beef taco are the meat and the cheese.
Fiber is the row that surprises people
One tortilla carries 1.5 g of fiber, which is 5% of the FDA Daily Value of 28 g. Two tortillas make 3.0 g, or 11%, for 105 calories. That ratio is unusual for something this small: you are buying a tenth of the day's fiber for about a twentieth of a 2,000-calorie day. Corn masa is milled from whole kernels, and MyPlate counts that toward the half of your grains it suggests making whole.
The sodium column tells the opposite story, and it is the one most people misread. A bare tortilla is 11 mg, which rounds to 0% of the Daily Value. That is roughly nothing — less than a hundredth of a teaspoon of table salt. Every milligram of sodium in your taco arrives with the filling: the beef-and-cheese record runs 375 mg per 100 g, so a 105 g taco is about 394 mg, or 17% of the day, from the parts that are not the tortilla.
Saturated fat behaves the same way. Two tortillas contain 0.2 g of it, 1% of the Daily Value. The beef-and-cheese taco record is at 4.49 g per 100 g. If you are watching saturated fat, the tortilla is never the line item to cut.
How does a corn tortilla compare?
| Food | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corn tortilla | 218 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 62 kcal |
| Reduced-calorie wheat bread | 217 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 62 kcal |
| Wheat English muffin | 223 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 63 kcal |
| Tortilla chips, salted white corn | 472 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 134 kcal |
Our take: per gram, three of these four are the same food. Corn tortilla 218, reduced-calorie bread 217, English muffin 223 — a six-calorie spread across 100 g, and only the reduced-calorie bread is lighter than the tortilla at all. What separates them on a plate is how much of each you pick up. A whole tortilla is 24 g; a whole English muffin is more than twice that. If you want the smallest calorie cost per unit of bread-shaped thing, the corn tortilla wins on portion size, not on density. And the fourth row is the real lesson: the chips are the same corn, more than double the calories per gram, because they went through a fryer.
Most popular corn tortilla brands in the United States
Ranked by how widely each product appears among foods sold in the United States, from the BodyPal food database of over 3.3 million products. Calories are the figures printed on each Nutrition Facts label, checked against USDA FoodData Central.
| Product | Calories (per 100 g) |
|---|---|
| Don Pancho Corn Tortillas | 192 cal |
| Guerrero Corn Tortillas | 213 cal |
| Guerrero White Corn Tortillas | 216 cal |
| Mi Pueblo Corn Tortillas | 220 cal |
| Mission Yellow Corn Tortillas | 200 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Corn tortilla FAQs
How many calories are in a corn tortilla?
A standard 6-inch corn tortilla weighs 24 g and has 52 calories, from the USDA record at 218 calories per 100 g. That covers 10.7 g of carbohydrate, 1.4 g of protein and 1.5 g of fiber. Store brands run from 192 to 220 calories per 100 g, so check the gram weight printed on the bag.
How many calories in 2 corn tortillas?
Two corn tortillas come to 105 calories at 48 g, the serving size printed on most US bags. That is 21.4 g of carbohydrate, 3.0 g of fiber, 2.7 g of protein and 22 mg of sodium. The figure is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g value, not a USDA serving.
How many calories in 3 corn tortillas?
Three corn tortillas are 157 calories at 72 g, again scaled by us from the USDA 100 g figure rather than taken from a USDA serving. You also get 32.1 g of carbohydrate, 4.5 g of fiber and 4.1 g of protein. Three tortillas run 157 calories against the 134 in a single ounce of tortilla chips.
How many carbs are in a corn tortilla?
One 24 g corn tortilla holds 10.7 g of carbohydrate, 4% of the Daily Value, out of 44.64 g per 100 g. Fiber accounts for 1.5 g of that, and total sugars for only 0.2 g. Two tortillas bring the carbohydrate to 21.4 g, still under 8% of a 2,000-calorie day.
How much fiber is in a corn tortilla?
One corn tortilla gives 1.5 g of fiber, 5% of the 28 g Daily Value, from 6.3 g per 100 g. Two tortillas make 3.0 g, or 11%, for 105 calories. Corn masa is ground from whole kernels, which is where that fiber comes from and why it beats most white breads per calorie.
How much sodium is in a corn tortilla?
A plain corn tortilla has 11 mg of sodium, which rounds to 0% of the Daily Value, from 45 mg per 100 g. The no-added-salt USDA record is 11 mg per 100 g, about 3 mg per tortilla. A beef-and-cheese taco on the same tortilla is roughly 394 mg, so the filling carries the salt.
Are corn tortillas healthier than flour tortillas?
USDA's index did not return a plain flour tortilla row we could cost against the corn record's 52 calories, so we will not guess. What the corn record does show is 52 calories for 24 g, 1.5 g of fiber, 0.7 g of fat and 11 mg of sodium. That is a small, low-fat, whole-grain base by any standard.
Are corn tortillas gluten-free?
The USDA corn tortilla record, 52 calories for 24 g, is a corn masa product with no wheat flour among its ingredients. Some supermarket tortillas are corn-and-wheat blends, and shared equipment is common, so read the package rather than assuming. The nutrition here describes a plain corn masa tortilla only.
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Count it without the math
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