How many calories are in a steak fajita?
One steak fajita weighs 95 g and carries 219 calories. Per 100 g the filled tortilla runs 231 calories, which puts a two-fajita plate at 439. Most of that is the beef and the flour wrap together; the peppers and onions barely register on the total.
You'd need to walk about 44 minutes to burn the 219 calories in one fajita (95 g).
How long does it take to burn off a steak fajita?
One fajita (95 g) is 219 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 219 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 44 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 27 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 31 min |
| Jogging | 26 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 49 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 (95 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Steak fajita quick facts
- US servings, from one ounce to a cup of filling
- Chicken, shrimp and vegetable fajitas
- Sodium is the row that moves first
- How does a steak fajita compare?
- Most popular steak fajita brands
- FAQ
Steak fajita quick facts
The number below comes from FNDDS 2708605, "Fajita, beef or pork", the Survey 2021-2023 record for the whole assembled thing: the strips of steak, the peppers and onions cooked with them, and the tortilla they are rolled into. That is what a person actually picks up off the plate, so it is the row this page is built on. USDA keeps a separate record for chicken and one for the mixed "NFS" version, and both sit lower.
Nothing here is a restaurant figure. A sizzling platter at a chain arrives with rice, beans, sour cream and guacamole, and every one of those is counted outside the 219.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 fajita (95 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 231 | 219 | — |
| Total fat | 12.24 g | 11.6 g | 15% |
| Saturated fat | 3.22 g | 3.1 g | 15% |
| Carbohydrate | 17.99 g | 17.1 g | 6% |
| Dietary fiber | 1.5 g | 1.4 g | 5% |
| Total sugars | 2.44 g | 2.3 g | — |
| Protein | 12.07 g | 11.5 g | 23% |
| Sodium | 459 mg | 436 mg | 19% |
% 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 label rows are missing on purpose. USDA does not publish added sugars or trans fat for survey dishes in this edition of FNDDS, so there is no honest figure to print for either. Cholesterol and potassium do exist here: one fajita gives 28 mg of cholesterol, 9% of the Daily Value, and 183 mg of potassium, which is only 4% of the 4,700 mg reference on the FDA Daily Value chart.
US servings, from one ounce to a cup of filling
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 oz | 28 g | 65 kcal |
| One fajita | 95 g | 219 kcal |
| 1 cup of filling | 120 g | 277 kcal |
| 4 oz | 113 g | 261 kcal |
| Two fajitas, one plate | 190 g | 439 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 231 kcal |
Two of these are USDA household measures: the single 95 g fajita and the 1 cup portion. The ounce rows and the two-fajita plate are our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not USDA servings.
Watch the cup. It looks like the smaller measure and it is not: 1 cup at 120 g comes to 277 calories, 58 more than a whole fajita, because a cup packs the filling in without the air a rolled tortilla holds. If you log fajitas by the cup out of a skillet and then eat them wrapped, you are logging the same meal twice as heavily as you think.
Store packs are a third thing again. The frozen and refrigerated "steak fajitas" on US shelves run 70 to 143 calories per 100 g, well under the 231 here, because almost all of them are meat and peppers with no tortilla in the box. A 3 oz (84 g) serving of Angus beef fajita strips lands at 120 calories; a fire-roasted skillet mix is 160 per cup. Those are label figures for a component, not for a finished fajita.
Chicken, shrimp and vegetable fajitas
| Version | USDA record | Per 100 g | One fajita (95 g) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steak, beef or pork | 2708605 | 231 kcal | 219 kcal |
| Fajita, NFS (mixed meat) | 2708603 | 219 kcal | 208 kcal |
| Chicken | 2708604 | 206 kcal | 196 kcal |
| Shrimp | 2708606 | 189 kcal | 180 kcal |
| Vegetable | 2708607 | 166 kcal | 158 kcal |
The meat is doing the work. Swap steak for chicken and one fajita falls by 23 calories; swap it for vegetables and it falls by 61, from 219 to 158. On a per-100-g basis that vegetable version is 65 calories lighter than the beef one, a 28% cut, and it is the only row of the five that carries more fiber, 2 g instead of 1.5 g.
Saturated fat moves further than calories do. Beef or pork sits at 3.22 g per 100 g, chicken at 2.14 g, shrimp at 1.93 g. Three chicken fajitas cost you less saturated fat than two beef ones.
Shrimp is the odd one. At 189 calories per 100 g it beats chicken, but protein drops to 8.33 g against 11.33 g, so you give up a quarter of the protein to save 17 calories. If protein is the reason you ordered fajitas, shrimp is the wrong trade.
Sodium is the row that moves first
One fajita carries 436 mg of sodium, 19% of the Daily Value, roughly a fifth of a teaspoon of table salt. That sounds modest until you eat the second one. Two fajitas reach 872 mg, 38% of the day's sodium while supplying only 22% of a 2,000-calorie budget. Sodium runs almost twice as fast as calories here, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans put the ceiling at 2,300 mg a day for adults.
The vegetable version is the exception, and not by a small margin: 343 mg per 100 g against 459 for beef, which is 326 mg in a 95 g fajita. Fajita seasoning and the tortilla both carry salt, so two vegetable fajitas come to 652 mg of sodium against 872 mg for two steak ones.
Against that, the protein column is genuinely good. 11.5 g in one fajita is 23% of the Daily Value from a 219-calorie unit, which is a better protein-per-calorie ratio than most handheld Tex-Mex, and MyPlate counts the steak toward the protein group. If you're watching sodium, order two fajitas and skip the chips; if you're watching calories, the fajitas are not where the meal goes wrong.
How does a steak fajita compare?
| Dish | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steak fajita | 231 kcal | 4 oz (113 g) | 261 kcal |
| Chiles rellenos with meat and cheese | 230 kcal | 4 oz (113 g) | 260 kcal |
| Burrito bowl, beef or pork | 213 kcal | 4 oz (113 g) | 241 kcal |
| Chilaquiles | 195 kcal | 4 oz (113 g) | 220 kcal |
Our take: the steak fajita is the heaviest of these four per 100 g, but only by a single calorie over chiles rellenos, so calorie density is not what separates them. Protein is. The burrito bowl delivers 19.97 g of protein per 100 g against the fajita's 12.07 g and carries almost no carbohydrate at 0.27 g, because the bowl is meat and toppings with no wrap. For roughly the same calories, a bowl gets you closer to a day's protein; the fajita gets you a tortilla. Pick the fajita when you want a handheld meal, the bowl when the protein number is the point.
Most popular steak fajita 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) |
|---|---|
| John Soules Foods Angus Beef Fajitas | 143 cal |
| Great Value Fire Roasted Steak Fajitas | 81 cal |
| Heinz Steak Fajitas | 124 cal |
| Primal Kitchen Steak Fajitas | 70 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Steak fajita FAQs
How many calories are in a steak fajita?
219 calories for one 95 g fajita, the USDA figure for beef or pork fajita at 231 calories per 100 g. That covers the meat, the tortilla and the peppers and onions in one serving. Two on a plate come to 439 calories.
How many calories in a steak fajita without the tortilla?
120 calories per 3 oz (84 g) is the closest published figure, taken from a branded pack of Angus beef fajita strips sold without wraps. USDA does not publish a meat-only fajita row in its survey database, so any meat-only number you see comes from a label rather than FNDDS.
Steak fajita vs chicken fajita calories?
219 calories for the beef or pork fajita against 196 for the chicken one, both at 95 g. Per 100 g that is 231 versus 206, a gap of 25 calories. Chicken also drops saturated fat from 3.22 g to 2.14 g per 100 g.
How much protein is in a steak fajita?
11.5 g of protein in one 95 g fajita, 23% of the Daily Value. Per 100 g the figure is 12.07 g. Two fajitas put you at 23 g, which is 46% of the Daily Value and a solid share of a day's protein for most adults.
How many carbs are in a steak fajita?
17.1 g of carbohydrate in one 95 g fajita, 6% of the Daily Value, with 1.4 g of that fiber and 2.3 g sugars. Per 100 g the figure is 17.99 g. The tortilla carries nearly all of it; the peppers and onions add very little.
How much sodium is in a steak fajita?
436 mg of sodium in one 95 g fajita, 19% of the Daily Value, or roughly a fifth of a teaspoon of table salt. Two fajitas reach 872 mg, 38% of the day, while supplying only 22% of a 2,000-calorie budget.
How many calories in two steak fajitas?
439 calories for two 95 g fajitas, our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure rather than a USDA serving. That is a normal restaurant plate before rice, beans, sour cream or guacamole, none of which are included in the 439.
Are steak fajitas good for weight loss?
219 calories with 11.5 g of protein makes one fajita an easy fit; two at 439 calories land inside a typical 400-500 calorie lunch. Sodium is the thing to watch, not the calories: two fajitas use 38% of the day's limit. The vegetable version drops to 158 calories.
Similar foods
- Steak — 368 cal per regular steak
- Eggnog — 112 cal for 1/2 cup
- Protein Shake — 156 cal per cup
- Bubble Tea — 239 cal per drink
- Apple cider — 114 cal per cup
- Root beer — 152 cal for 12 fl oz glass
Count it without the math
Point the camera at the plate and BodyPal counts the fajitas for you, tortilla and all.
