What is in Chipotle’s Queso Blanco?

The statement

Chipotle’s ingredient statement for Queso Blanco lists 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. The brand’s own page on the 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.”

On the cheese and the rennet: “If you eat dairy, our shredded Monterey Jack cheese and queso are made with vegetable-based rennet and our sour cream is 100% cultured cream.” On the milk: “Yes. All of the cheese and Sour Cream at Chipotle are made with pasteurized milk.”

The record

Allergens

The brand’s chart marks Queso Blanco for dairy and as vegetarian; its FAQ adds: “Chipotle’s Queso Blanco does not contain gluten, but it does contain sulfites.” “The items at Chipotle that may contain sulfites include Chipotle Queso Blanco, Chipotle Honey Vinaigrette, and Barbacoa.” The sulphites come from the vinegar, which the brand labels by choice: “All sulphites present in Chipotle food items come exclusively from vinegar, in which sulphites occur naturally below the concentration (10 ppm) to be required as a listed ingredient under federal law.”

Price

Queso Blanco is a priced add-on: $1.70 at the median on a burrito, bowl, salad or tacos across 368 restaurants on 25 September 2026 ($1.40 to $1.80), $2.95 on a quesadilla, $1.25 on a single taco; a side is $2.95 and chips and queso $4.90. The does Chipotle have queso guide covers where it is sold; the guacamole against queso page weighs it against guacamole.

Every way the menu sells queso

As an add-on to an entree it is $1.70 at the median on a burrito, bowl or salad; the kid’s build your own offers it in place of a meat.

The side of queso by state

The Side of Queso Blanco carries the same median, $2.95, in every one of the 48 states and DC read: the middle restaurant in each state prices it alike. What differs is the range within a state, from $2.85 at the lowest restaurant read to $3.20 at the highest, and the table gives each state’s low and high with the count of restaurants behind it. Every state has its own page with every item’s median there; the prices by state page maps the whole country.

How this page is read

Every price on this page is a range read from 368 restaurants’ own ordering menus in 48 states and DC on 25 September 2026, printed with the count of restaurants behind it and the brand’s own delivery price beside it; every calorie and nutrient figure is Chipotle’s own record from its nutrition calculator, and every allergen mark is its own chart row or tag.

More on this site

• Queso Blanco: the record and price
• Does Chipotle have queso?
• Guacamole against queso
• Chips and queso