How many calories are in a shrimp quesadilla?
A full 140 g shrimp quesadilla runs 402 calories, and the folded round works out to 287 calories per 100 g. Cut it in half and one wedge is 201. USDA publishes no shrimp quesadilla record, so the closest build it does publish — tortilla, melted cheese, lean protein — carries the number on this page.
You'd need to walk about 80 minutes to burn the 402 calories in one full circle (140 g).
How long does it take to burn off 402 kcal of shrimp quesadilla?
One full circle (140 g) is 402 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 402 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 1 hr 20 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 50 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 57 min |
| Jogging | 47 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 1 hr 29 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 (140 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Shrimp quesadilla quick facts
- US servings, from one wedge to the whole circle
- Cheese, chicken, steak and veggie quesadillas
- Restaurant-style quesadillas are a different food
- Sodium and saturated fat, not calories, are the rows to watch
- How does a shrimp quesadilla compare?
- Shrimp quesadilla FAQs
Shrimp quesadilla quick facts
There is no "shrimp quesadilla" entry anywhere in USDA FoodData Central — not in FNDDS, not in the Branded database. So the numbers here come from FNDDS 2708593, "Quesadilla, chicken", which is the same construction: a flour tortilla, melted cheese, and a lean protein filling. That build is what moves the calorie count.
Shrimp is leaner than chicken, so a real shrimp version sits on this line or a hair under it. What it does not do is climb: FNDDS 2708591, "Quesadilla, cheese only", is 316 calories per 100 g, because a quesadilla with no filling is simply more cheese per wedge.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 full circle (140 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 287 | 402 | — |
| Total fat | 12.99 g | 18.2 g | 23% |
| Saturated fat | 5.06 g | 7.1 g | 35% |
| Carbohydrate | 27.32 g | 38.2 g | 14% |
| Dietary fiber | 1.9 g | 2.7 g | 10% |
| Total sugars | 2.15 g | 3.0 g | — |
| Protein | 14.45 g | 20.2 g | 40% |
| Sodium | 601 mg | 841 mg | 37% |
| Cholesterol | 43 mg | 60 mg | 20% |
| Potassium | 153 mg | 214 mg | 5% |
% 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 package label are missing above: added sugars and trans fat. This FNDDS release does not publish either value for mixed dishes, so rather than guess them, we leave them out. Cholesterol lands at 60 mg per quesadilla, a fifth of the Daily Value, and potassium at 214 mg, which is small — the shrimp is a modest share of the plate.
Packaged versions are no help either. A full-text search of the US Branded database for a quesadilla containing shrimp, in the description or in the ingredient list, returns zero rows. Frozen quesadillas exist with chicken, beef and cheese, but the shrimp one is a restaurant and home dish, not a freezer-aisle product.
US servings, from one wedge to the whole circle
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 oz | 28 g | 80 kcal |
| 1 triangular piece | 35 g | 100 kcal |
| 1 half circle, folded wedge | 70 g | 201 kcal |
| 1 cup, cut up | 95 g | 273 kcal |
| 1 full circle | 140 g | 402 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 287 kcal |
The triangle, the half circle, the cup and the full circle are all USDA household measures for this record, which is unusual and useful — most mixed dishes give you one weight and leave you stranded. The ounce row is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not a USDA serving.
The cup is the trap. A cup of quesadilla cut into pieces weighs 95 g and carries 273 calories, more than the folded half wedge that looks bigger on the plate. Loose pieces pack tighter than a flat round, so measuring by cup after you cut is not the same as eyeballing a half. When you scale nutrients rather than calories — the 10.1 g of protein and 421 mg of sodium in that half circle, for instance — those are ours, worked from the per-100-g column.
One more habit worth breaking: counting a shrimp quesadilla by the shrimp. FNDDS 2706362, "Shrimp, grilled", is 110 calories per 100 g. The assembled quesadilla is 287. Almost everything above the shrimp line is tortilla and melted cheese.
Cheese, chicken, steak and veggie quesadillas
| Version | Per 100 g | Typical piece | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheese quesadilla | 316 kcal | 1 full circle (120 g) | 379 kcal |
| Chicken quesadilla (the shrimp stand-in) | 287 kcal | 1 full circle (140 g) | 402 kcal |
| Shrimp quesadilla with vegetables | 270 kcal | 1 full circle (160 g) | 432 kcal |
| Steak quesadilla | 305 kcal | 1 full circle (140 g) | 427 kcal |
| Veggie quesadilla | 253 kcal | 1 full circle (140 g) | 354 kcal |
Read that table by the gram column and by the piece column separately, because they disagree. Adding peppers and onions drops the density from 287 to 270 calories per 100 g, which sounds like a saving. But the vegetables also make the quesadilla heavier — 160 g instead of 140 g — so the piece you actually eat comes to 432 calories, thirty more than the plain one.
Cheese-only is the opposite illusion. It is the densest of the group at 316 calories per 100 g, yet the round is smaller at 120 g, so it finishes at 379 — lighter on the plate than the shrimp version, and beaten only by the 354-calorie veggie round. Steak sits at 427, and swapping that beef for shrimp is worth 25 calories on the piece. The filling barely moves the total. The size of the tortilla does.
Restaurant-style quesadillas are a different food
The griddled 8- to 10-inch quesadilla you get in a restaurant is not the same thing as the home version. SR Legacy 169035 puts it at 368 calories per 100 g and 194 g on the plate, which is 714 calories before rice, beans, sour cream or guacamole.
Line up the extremes and the range is startling. One triangle off a home quesadilla is 100 calories; the restaurant round is 714. That is a seven-fold spread over the same two words on a menu, and it is the single most useful thing to know before you log one. Restaurant recipes also run saltier — the SR Legacy chicken version carries 745 mg of sodium per 100 g against 601 mg in the FNDDS record.
Sodium and saturated fat, not calories, are the rows to watch
At 402 calories, one shrimp quesadilla is an ordinary lunch. The rows that jump are the other two. It delivers 841 mg of sodium, 37% of the FDA Daily Value of 2,300 mg, and 7.1 g of saturated fat, 35% of the 20 g Daily Value. In salt terms, that sodium is roughly a third of a teaspoon of table salt in one folded round.
Against those two, the fiber row is quiet: 2.7 g, only 10% of the Daily Value, from a dish built mostly on refined flour tortilla. A side of beans or pico de gallo does more for that column than anything inside the quesadilla.
The protein is the honest win. Twenty grams for 402 calories is 40% of the Daily Value in one piece, and shrimp is the reason the ratio holds up — MyPlate counts seafood toward the protein group and recommends about 8 ounces a week for adults. If you're watching sodium, the half circle at 421 mg is the version that fits an ordinary day.
How does a shrimp quesadilla compare?
| Dish | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shrimp quesadilla | 287 kcal | 1 full circle, 140 g | 402 kcal |
| Quesadilla, NFS | 316 kcal | 1 full circle, 140 g | 442 kcal |
| Quesadilla, beef or pork | 305 kcal | 1 full circle, 140 g | 427 kcal |
| Fajita, shrimp | 189 kcal | 1 fajita, 95 g | 180 kcal |
Our take: the shrimp quesadilla is the leanest per gram of the three quesadillas here, and the only reason is that lean filling displaces cheese. If you want the same shrimp for far fewer calories, the shrimp fajita is the answer — 189 calories per 100 g and 180 for the wrap, because it skips the melted cheese layer entirely. For a filling lunch with real protein, take the whole quesadilla and skip the rice. For weight loss, take the half circle at 201, or take the fajita.
Shrimp quesadilla FAQs
How many calories are in a shrimp quesadilla?
A full 140 g shrimp quesadilla is 402 calories, at 287 calories per 100 g. That is the whole griddled round, tortilla and melted cheese included. Cut it into four triangles and each 35 g piece is about 100 calories. A restaurant-size 8- to 10-inch version, closer to 194 g, lands near 714.
How many calories in half a shrimp quesadilla?
Half a shrimp quesadilla, one folded 70 g wedge, is 201 calories. Scaled from the USDA per-100-g figures, that half also carries about 10.1 g of protein, 19.1 g of carbohydrate and 421 mg of sodium, which is 18% of the Daily Value for sodium in a single wedge.
Is a shrimp quesadilla healthy?
One quesadilla gives you 20.2 g of protein, 40% of the Daily Value, for 402 calories, which works as a lunch. The catch is 841 mg of sodium at 37% of the Daily Value and 7.1 g of saturated fat at 35%, against just 2.7 g of fiber. Splitting it halves all three.
Shrimp or chicken quesadilla - which has fewer calories?
Grilled shrimp is 110 calories per 100 g, one of the leanest fillings USDA lists, so the two land within a few calories of each other. A shrimp version sits at or just under the 287 per 100 g used here for the chicken record. Swapping the filling moves the total by single calories, not tens.
How much protein is in a shrimp quesadilla?
A full 140 g quesadilla holds 20.2 g of protein, 40% of the Daily Value, or 14.45 g per 100 g. Half a quesadilla gives about 10.1 g. Both the shrimp and the melted cheese contribute, which is why the protein figure holds up better than in a cheese-only quesadilla of the same weight.
How many carbs are in a shrimp quesadilla?
One 140 g quesadilla has 38.2 g of carbohydrate, 14% of the Daily Value, from 27.32 g per 100 g. Of that, 2.7 g is fiber and 3.0 g is total sugars, so nearly all of it is starch from the flour tortilla. A single 35 g triangle comes to roughly 9.6 g of carbohydrate.
How much sodium is in a shrimp quesadilla?
A whole 140 g quesadilla carries 841 mg of sodium, 37% of the 2,300 mg Daily Value, or roughly a third of a teaspoon of table salt. The half circle is about 421 mg. Restaurant recipes run higher still: the SR Legacy chicken quesadilla record shows 745 mg per 100 g.
How many calories in a restaurant shrimp quesadilla?
Around 714 calories. The USDA restaurant-style record is 368 calories per 100 g on a 194 g quesadilla, so it lands at nearly double the home version's 402 calories, heavier and denser at once. Rice, beans, sour cream and guacamole are all on top of that number, not inside it.
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