Mission Flour Tortillas: Labelgrade C (62/100)

The short answer

Mission Flour Tortillas delivers 4g of protein and 140 calories per 1 TORTILLA (USDA FDC 2185788). Per 100g that’s 8.2g of protein; per oz, 2.3g. The Labelgrade is C (62 / 100): Additive-heavy formulation (phosphate additives), low sugar load, and high sodium per 100g.

Why this Labelgrade

How it compares

What the 420mg of sodium is really doing here

The single most important number on this label is the one most people skim past: 420mg of sodium per tortilla — the highest of any tortilla in our wave, and about 18% of a day’s 2,300mg limit before you’ve added a thing. That salt isn’t an accident or a flavor flourish; it’s load-bearing. In a commodity flour tortilla, sodium does double duty as a preservative-system partner (alongside the calcium propionate and sorbic acid further down the list) and as a dough-handling aid that keeps the gluten from going slack on the production line.

The practical issue is that a tortilla is almost never eaten alone. Wrap it around deli meat, cheese, or a canned-bean filling — all sodium-heavy in their own right — and the wrapper quietly contributes a fifth of your daily sodium before the contents even count. If you eat tortillas a few times a week, switching the wrapper to corn (often well under half the sodium) is one of the lowest-effort sodium cuts available, precisely because you change nothing about the meal you actually wanted.

Read the serving size before you trust the calorie count

These numbers — 140 calories, 4g protein, 1g fiber — describe a standard fajita/soft-taco-size tortilla, the ~6-inch round this 11.5 oz package contains. That matters because “flour tortilla” on a nutrition app can mean wildly different things. A burrito-size flour tortilla, the kind a chain wraps a full burrito in, commonly runs 290–320 calories and 600mg-plus of sodium each — more than double this line. If you logged “1 flour tortilla” from memory after a burrito night, you almost certainly undercounted.

The protein here is also worth a reality check: 4g is wheat protein, not a meaningful contribution to a protein target. At roughly 8.2g per 100g it’s a refined-carb staple that happens to contain a little protein, not a protein food. Treat the tortilla as the carbohydrate envelope and put your protein and fiber in the filling — that’s the move that turns a C-grade wrapper into part of a genuinely good meal.

Scope

This page covers Mission Flour Tortillas (11.5 oz), UPC 073731004159, as represented in USDA Branded Foods FDC 2185788. Mission sells multiple variants in this product line — other sizes, flavors, or fat levels may have different macros and Labelgrade scores. Manufacturers periodically reformulate; always cross-reference the actual package label, especially if you have allergies or dietary restrictions.

Ingredients (from the USDA Branded Foods entry)

ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (INTERESTERIFIED SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL AND/OR PALM OIL), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SALT, SUGAR, LEAVENING (SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM SULFATE, CORN STARCH, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE AND/OR SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, CALCIUM SULFATE), DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, ENZYMES, WHEAT STARCH, CALCIUM CARBONATE, ANTIOXIDANTS (TOCOPHEROLS, ASCORBIC ACID, CITRIC ACID), CELLULOSE GUM, GUAR GUM, DOUGH CONDITIONERS (FUMARIC ACID, SODIUM METABISULFITE AND/OR MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES), CALCIUM PROPIONATE AND SORBIC ACID (TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS).

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Scope: This page applies specifically to Flour Tortillas (11.5 oz) · UPC 073731004159. Other sizes, flavors, or formulations may differ.