Chipotle Restaurant

Appears Clean

My kids love Chipotle. My daughter is GFCF and gets a chicken bowl with rice, lettuce, and tomato. Occasionally we get chips and guacamole. I realize that any food from a restaurant is going to have cross contamination issues but we still go out to eat on occasion.  A lot of the food at Chipotle contains soy if you avoid soy.

My son likes to get an Izze pop. These are also clean. I get the Snapple apple juice bottles. Snapple has several flavors of juice that are clean.

If you are on a diet, you might want to skip the chicken burrito. It used to give me gallstone attacks. They use chicken thighs for the meat which is the fattest part of the chicken. A chicken burrito contains 7 grams of fat, almost 1,200 calories, and a lot of sodium.  It made the list of top 20 worst foods in America (for Mexican food) in a Men's Health article.

http://www.menshealth.com/20worst/worstmexican.html  

Interesting, considering most people consider Chipotle as a healthier alternative to fast food burgers. We'll still eat there on occasion. 

Company Response:


Thank you for writing to us in regards to our mission to serve Food With Integrity. I am pleased to inform you that we do not use any artificial flavors or any flavor enhancers in our restaurants. We also do not use preservatives such as BHA, BHT and TBHQ. We use citric acid as a natural preservative.

I sent an e-mail back and asked if their chips were cooked in an oil that contained BHT and below was their response:

We fry our chips in sunflower oil. It does not contain any preservatives and is GMO-free.