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El Monterey

Jalapeno egg & cheese breakfast burrito

CModerate GoutMarket grade · Moderate · #3 of 27 frozen burritos and taquitos we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving1 Burrito (128 g)
Purine per servingunder 1 mg (0% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gunder 1 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingunder 1 mg per serving
Main purine sourcenone on the label
Fructose per serving0.5 g
Added sugar per servingnot on the label
Total sugar per serving1 g

Purine values come from each matched food's page on GoutSafe. Shares come from label order: US labels list ingredients by weight, so the second ingredient is at most half the product, and anything after "2% or less" is at most 2%. The worst case fills the most purine-dense ingredients to their full share first, until the shares reach the whole product, then applies GoutSafe's weighting by source, which counts plant purines at 0.3, dairy at 0 and organ meat at 1.3 because they raise uric acid by different amounts. The grade uses that worst case. How we rate.

Why it's rated C

  • Open Food Facts classes it as ultra-processed (NOVA 4), and GoutSafe's rule keeps ultra-processed foods at Moderate (C) or below. Source on GoutSafe.
  • Under 1 mg of purine per serving, well under 1% of the 400 mg daily guide.
  • The panel lists 1 g of total sugars per serving and no added-sugar line.
  • Yeast extract is one of the most purine-dense ingredients there is, at 847 mg per 100 g dried. Source on GoutSafe.

Estimated from the ingredient label. Labels list ingredients by weight but rarely give amounts, so we grade on the most purine the label allows, which can read stricter than the real recipe and never safer. Sugar comes from the Nutrition Facts panel. How we rate.

What's on the label

Ingredients: FLOUR TORTILLA (WHEAT FLOUR (ENRICHED WITH NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN, CANOLA AND/OR CORN OIL), SALT, DOUGH CONDITIONERS (YEAST, WHEAT GLUTEN, SUGAR, GUAR GUM, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH), SCRAMBLED EGGS (PASTEURIZED WHOLE EGGS, NON FAT MILK, SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, BUTTER FLAVOR (MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL BUTTER FLAVOR, ANNATTO AND TURMERIC (ADDED FOR COLOR]), SPICE AND/OR LIQUID PEPPER EXTRACT), CHEESE SAUCE (WATER, CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SOYBEAN AND/OR CANOLA OIL, WHEY, XANTHAN GUM, NONFAT DRY MILK, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, BUTTER OIL, SUGAR, YEAST EXTRACT, PAPRIKA AND ANNATTO [COLOR], NATURAL FLAVORS), PROCESS JACK AND AMERICAN CHEESE WITH PEPPERS PRODUCT (JACK AND AMERICAN CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), WATER, SKIM MILK, PALM OIL, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, PEPPERS (RED AND GREEN JALAPENO PEPPERS), SALT, LACTIC ACID), RED BELL PEPPER JALAPENO PEPPERS (WITH SALT, ACETIC ACID, WATER, CALCIUM CHLORIDE), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS PROCESS CHEDDAR CHEESE PRODUCT (WATER, PALM OIL, NATURAL CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), RENNET CASEIN, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SALT, LACTIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVOR, ANNATTO), WATER, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, SPICE.

Serving: 1 Burrito (128 g). Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2388080), dated 2022-12-22. UPC 071007143328. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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