Mission Soft Taco Flour Tortillas: Labelgrade C+ (65/100)

The short answer

Mission Soft Taco Flour Tortillas delivers 4g of protein and 140 calories per 1 TORTILLA (USDA FDC 1955227). Per 100g that’s 8.2g of protein; per oz, 2.3g. The Labelgrade is C+ (65 / 100): Low sugar load and high sodium per 100g.

This is the standard refined white-flour tortilla — the soft, foldable default in most kitchens. It’s perfectly fine, but it’s the weakest tortilla we grade: refined flour, 400mg of sodium, and almost no fiber.

Why this Labelgrade

What a “standard flour tortilla” actually costs you

There’s nothing wrong with this tortilla — but it’s worth being clear-eyed about what it is. The base is enriched bleached flour: refined wheat with the bran and germ milled out, then a handful of B-vitamins and iron added back. Stripping the bran is exactly why fiber lands at a D (0.98g per tortilla) — whole-grain or corn versions keep more of it. The fat is interesterified and hydrogenated soybean shortening, the texturizing system most soft flour tortillas rely on to stay pliable on the shelf.

The number that defines the grade, though, is sodium: 400mg in a single tortilla, an F, and the highest of any tortilla we grade. That’s roughly 17% of the day’s sodium before you’ve added a single thing to it. Wrap a salted filling — cheese, deli meat, a seasoned protein — and one burrito can carry a meaningful chunk of your daily sodium in the wrapper alone. None of this is a reason to never buy it; it’s a reason to know the wrapper isn’t “free.”

When this is the right tortilla anyway

Plenty of meals genuinely call for a flour tortilla, and the grade isn’t an argument against those. Flour tortillas are large, soft, and elastic — they fold around a fat burrito without cracking, they griddle into a clean quesadilla, and they roll into wraps that hold together. A corn tortilla can’t do any of those things; it’s small and it splits if you overstuff it. So the honest guidance isn’t “never buy flour,” it’s match the tortilla to the job:

• Tacos, anything where you want the cleanest label, or you’re watching sodium → reach for corn (Guerrero White Corn, B+).
• Low-carb eating but you want a flour-style wrap → Mission’s Carb Balance wrap (B-) trades processing for ~3g net carb.
• Burritos, quesadillas, and big wraps where you need a soft, foldable round → this Soft Taco tortilla does the job; just count the 400mg of sodium as part of the meal.

It grades C+ because, judged as a nutrition product, it’s average. Judged as the right tool for a quesadilla, it’s exactly what you want.

How it compares

Scope

This page covers Mission Soft Taco Flour Tortillas (28 oz/793 g), UPC 073731071038, as represented in USDA Branded Foods FDC 1955227. 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 FLOUR (FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (INTERESTERIFIED AND HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OILS), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SALT, SUGAR, BAKING SODA, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, ENZYMES, FUMARIC ACID, AND CALCIUM PROPIONATE AND SORBIC ACID (TO MAINTAIN FRESHNESS).

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Scope: This page applies specifically to Soft Taco Flour Tortillas (28 oz/793 g) · UPC 073731071038. Other sizes, flavors, or formulations may differ.