Queso Blanco Kid’s Build Your OwnVegetarian

What Chipotle says it is

Chipotle’s printed nutrition sheet describes a kid’s build your own meal as: “Your choice of meat, guacamole, or queso, and two toppings to go with a pair of crispy corn or soft flour tortillas. Includes fruit or kid’s chips, and organic juice or milk.”

On the protein, Chipotle’s ingredients page says of white cheddar: “Making cheddar starts like any other cheese-making process: the milk is separated into curds (the thick, protein-filled part) and whey (the watery part) using cheese cultures (strains of bacteria - the good kind) and rennet (a vegetarian-based enzyme). Here’s where it gets cheddary: once drained, the curds are stacked on top of each other to press out even more whey, which gives cheddar its distinct interior layering, dense texture, and complex flavor. While cheddar cheese can be sweet, tangy, and even earthy, its flavor intensifies and sharpens as it ages. It’s why we use aged cheddar in our queso blanco.” The brand’s own page for it says: “Chipotle’s Queso Blanco does not contain gluten, but it does contain sulfites.” The statement for the queso blanco names 15 ingredients: Chipotle Chili, Corn Masa Flour, White Cheddar, Cultured Cream, Garlic, Monterey Jack Cheese, Lemon Juice, Milk, Poblano Pepper, Salt, Serrano Pepper, Cornstarch, Tomato, Water and Yellow Onion.

On 25 September 2026 the Queso Blanco Kid’s Build Your Own was listed at all 368 restaurants read, in 48 states and DC. That makes it a core item, on every open menu read.

Why the listing and the build differ

The 120 calories the ordering menu lists for the Queso Blanco Kid’s Build Your Own are the 2 oz of queso blanco by itself; every other part of the order is chosen on the line and adds its own record. This site prints that figure as the listing and never as the meal.

Sum the classic build part by part and the Queso Blanco Kid’s Build Your Own is 630 calories: Queso Blanco (kid’s portion, 2 oz) (120 calories), Soft Flour Tortilla (taco) (a pair, kid’s meal, 2 oz) (170 calories), Cilantro-Lime White Rice (kid’s portion, from the printed sheet) (100 calories), Black Beans (kid’s portion, from the printed sheet) (100 calories) and Tortilla Chips (kid’s chips, 1 oz) (140 calories). The other reference builds: light at 280 calories and loaded at 800 calories. Chipotle’s printed sheet gives a built kid’s build your own meal as 350 to 810 calories; the classic build sits inside that range.

Protein runs 20 g across the classic build, 3.2 g per 100 calories, and sodium 995 mg, 43 percent of the 2,300 mg the FDA uses as the daily value. Press any part in the build above and the bars redraw from that part’s own record.

What the price buys

$5.10 to $5.95 for pickup across 368 restaurants, with a median of $5.70, read on 25 September 2026. The same menus carry Chipotle’s own delivery price: $7.40 at the median, 29.8 percent above pickup, before the service fees the checkout adds. Every one of the eight kid’s build your own meals on the board shares the $5.70 median: the protein does not move the price on this format.

By state median, Kansas was lowest at $5.55 and Washington highest at $5.95. A state median stands on eight restaurants at most, so one dear or cheap restaurant moves it; the national range is the safer figure. Pick a state at the top of the page and every price on this site prints that state’s median.

The figures against a day

The listed protein alone is 6 percent of a 2,000 calorie day by calories and 11 percent of the 2,300 mg sodium daily value. It carries 5 g of protein, 4.2 g per 100 calories, and 6 g of saturated fat (30 percent of the daily value). Cholesterol, which the calculator does not print, is 30 mg on the printed sheet’s row for the same portion.

The classic build is 32 percent of a 2,000 calorie day and 43 percent of the sodium daily value. Carbohydrate runs 85 g with 8 g of fiber (29 percent of the 28 g daily value); fat 23 g, of which 7.5 g saturated.

Allergens and diets on this order

Chipotle’s allergens and special diets chart has a row for Queso Blanco: it contains dairy; the row marks it vegetarian. The classic build on this page contains dairy, wheat and gluten and sulphites, by the rows for its parts; it is vegetarian but not vegan (Queso Blanco (kid’s portion, 2 oz) rules vegan out).

Every row on the chart carries the same two cautions: “Individual foods may come into contact with one another during preparation, which is not reflected on this chart.” “Although we do not use eggs, mustard, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, shellfish, or fish as ingredients in our food, Chipotle cannot guarantee the complete absence of these allergens in its restaurants.”

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