Calories in Popeyes Popcorn Shrimp Combo Meal

If you’re hungry, then you’re at the right place when you go to Popeyes for a Popcorn Shrimp Combo meal. It comes with 1/4 pound of crispy fried popcorn shrimp, one small drink, one regular side dish, and a biscuit.

You get to choose the side dish such as mashed potatoes with gravy, red beans & rice, coleslaw, cajun french fries, or mac and cheese. The popcorn shrimp alone has nearly 400 total calories. The total calories in the entire meal will vary based on the selected side dish.

Read this post to discover more information about the nutrition, ingredients, and allergens in this popular combo meal at Popeyes.

Calories

Total calories in this seafood combo meal vary depending on the chosen side dishe. A regular sized order of mashed potatoes with cajun gravy, for example, contains 110 calories while a regular order of cajun french fries provides 270 calories.

Here are the calories in the shrimp, biscuit, and a couple side dish options:

• Battered popcorn shrimp: 390 calories
• Biscuit: 207 calories
• Cajun Fries: 270 calories
• Mashed Potatoes: 110 calories

Popeyes Popcorn Shrimp Combo Meal Ingredients

The star of this combo meal is shrimp. It’s battered and fried and served with a biscuit and your choice of a side dish.

Here are the lists of ingredients used to batter and fry the shrimp. We also include the ingredients in the french fries and the biscuit.

Batter

Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Enriched with Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid),Vegetable Oil (Soybean, Corn, and/or Cottonseed Oil), and contains 2% or less of the following: Salt, Water, Spices, Modified Corn Starch, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Aluminum Sulfate, Monocalcium Phosphate Monohydrate), Hexametaphosphate, Methylcellulose, Seasoning Blend, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour, Salt, Sugar, Dried Eggs, Yellow #5, (may contain Yellow #6, Red #40, Red #3, Grape Color Extract, Blue #1, Blue #2, Beet Color Extract, Annatto Extract and/or Turmeric Extract), Nonfat Milk, Leavening, Microcrystalline Cellulose, Spices, Natural Flavor, Corn Syrup Solids, Paprika, Monosodium Glutamate, Sodium Tripolyphosphate (retains moisture), Sodium Bisulfite (preservative).

Shortening

Cooked in Beef Tallow, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Beef Tallow, BHT (protects flavor), Citric Acid, and Dimethylpolysiloxane (anti-foaming agent).

French Fries

Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Soybean Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Sunflower Oil, and/or Corn Oil), Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour (Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Food Starch Modified, Yellow Corn Meal, Salt, Spices, Paprika, Dehydrated Garlic, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate), Monosodium Glutamate, Dehydrated Worcestershire Sauce (Molasses, Vinegar, Corn Syrup, Salt, Caramel Color, Garlic, Sucrose, Spices, Tamarind, Natrual Flavor, Maltodextrin), Sugar, Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate (color).

Biscuit

Bleached Enriched Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, Buttermilk, Palm Oil, Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Anhydrous Monocalcium Phosphate, Salt, Sugar, Sodium Stearol Lactate, Salt, Sugar, Spice, Isolated Wheat Protein, Potassium Sorbate, Natural & Artificial Flavor.

Allergens

The popcorn shrimp combo meal is prepared with ingredients that contain MSG, sulfite, egg, milk, soy, shrimp, and wheat. In addition, multiple food colorings are used, including Yellow #5, Yellow #6, Red #3, Red #40, Blue #1, Blue #2.

Prices, nutrition and images courtesy of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen.

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