Hash Brown

Hash Brown at Taco Bell. 170 calories, $1.99.

Taco Bell lists this item as available meatless.

170calories
$1.99price
85calories per dollar

How it compares on the Taco Bell menu

At 170 calories it is lighter than 89% of the 103 Taco Bell items we track, against a menu median of 350.

The same thing at other chains

ChainItemCaloriesNRF9.3
McDonald'sHash Brown1445.6
Burger KingHash Brown Rounds4838.09

What a Hash Brown costs across America

Priced at 187 Taco Bell restaurants in 41 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.49 and $1.99, a spread of 34%.

$1.99median price
$1.49–$1.99middle 80%
187restaurants priced
41states

It is on the menu at 187 of the 416 restaurants sampled, so it is not carried everywhere.

1 restaurant at $1.00–$1.080 restaurants at $1.08–$1.171 restaurant at $1.17–$1.250 restaurants at $1.25–$1.3411 restaurants at $1.34–$1.427 restaurants at $1.42–$1.517 restaurants at $1.51–$1.590 restaurants at $1.59–$1.686 restaurants at $1.68–$1.7643 restaurants at $1.76–$1.8511 restaurants at $1.85–$1.9489 restaurants at $1.94–$2.021 restaurant at $2.02–$2.1010 restaurants at $2.10 and above$1.00$2.10+

Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last bar gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest of the chart.

$1.00cheapest sampled — Hereford, TX
$2.49most expensive sampled — New York, NY

The cheapest Hash Brown in the sample is $1.00 in Hereford, TX, and the most expensive is $2.49 in New York, NY — 149% more. 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 21 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 13 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
KS$1.395cheapest
NE$1.393cheapest
ID$1.693cheapest
FL$1.7915cheapest
IL$2.299most expensive
OR$2.007most expensive
NY$1.996most expensive
CT$1.994most expensive

Calorie and price data come from Taco Bell's own ordering system. USDA does not publish a full nutrient panel for this item.