[korroziya]

Can't tell if this is sarcastic. Hispanic communities suffer from large amounts of obesity, some due to genetic issues, but diet is an overwhelming factor. A proper tortilla has three ingredients: flour, lard and salt. Not exactly a staple in a slimming diet.

[rjh29]

Tortillas are low calorie (100-150 calories), most likely better for you than bread. I guess it depends how many you eat, and if they're fried.

[zeruch]

I think one reason might be that most tortillas in supermarkets are processed to death as well. Most won't go to a solid Mexican grocer and pick up the good stuff (or it's not available) and to top that off, one thing I've noticed outside of California at least, people double wrap small amounts of food in tortilla, instead of loading up, so they eat 2-4x more tortillas than 'normal' (I'm biased because I am in California and grew up here, we understand tortilla physics and tensile parameters, YMMV).

Whether they are "better for you than bread" depends a whole hell of a lot on the bread, and how its made.

[chasebank]

The flour tortillas used for wraps and burritos are 300-500 calories. A small flour tortilla will be in the range you listed and a taco sized corn tortilla is around 50.

[bluedino]

A Mission sandwich wrap is only 210, and there are more health-oriented brands out there. Even their low-carb line is only 80 calories.

https://www.missionfoods.com/products/original-wraps/

[chasebank]

Yes, but almost every wrap or burrito you buy at a restaurant are using wraps much larger than that. Perhaps I'm jaded living in southern California and having burritos the size of small logs.

[rjh29]

Fair enough, I'm not from the US.

[anthonypasq]

? They are made out of the exact same stuff. 2 slices of wonder bread has 140 calories.

[rjh29]

Yeah but the majority of bread is NOT 140 calories. In the UK there is literally one loaf of bread that small because they shrunk the size down and added air to it.

[anthonypasq]

who knew that larger volumes of bread have more calories than smaller volumes. What the hell is your point even?

flour tortillas are bread. They are nutritionally equivalent.

[stcroixx]

Proper corn tortillas have no lard. If you live near any sizable community of Mexicans it shouldn’t be hard to find fresh masa to press.

[starkparker]

Nothing whole-grain corn tortillas made with vegetable oil at home in a press can't fix.