Is Taco Bell meat real meat or soy?!
Is Taco Bell meat real meat or soy?
so i'm a veggie... i've been so since New Years [if figured it was as good as time as any to start]. and before i became so, Taco Bell was one of my favorite places to eat. and i haven't eaten there since. but my question is: meat or soy? i've heard people say both. i'm not talking about the chicken or steak... i mean what's in the soft "beef" tacos. please give me a good answer, and your source, if you can...
Answers:
Its real meat.
And there beans DO NOT contain lard.
Just look it up at tacobell.com in the food facts section.
Here are something you can get there:
Bean Burrito, 1/2 lb. Cheesy Bean & Rice Burrito, 7-Layer Burrito, and Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes side item (the last two feature sour cream, which contains a very small amount of gelatin which is naturally animal-based). Of course you can also request that any item on the menu be prepared without meat or sour cream. The enzymes used in the production of our cheese, tortillas, and flatbread are not from an animal source.
Hope this helps!
it's reall beef.
And the refried beans have lard in them.
real
It's real meat, usu beef. Def nothing vegan in taco fillings.
Just ask them to substitute beans for beef in anything you get. Taco Bell's beans do not contain lard.
The beef does have soy protein mixed in with it to save money, but it is definitely not exclusively soy.
The sour cream contains gelatin, so you may want to ask for them to skip that.
You can verify this for yourself at the tacobell.com website. Click on "Our Food" then "Food Facts"
Hey listen, I'm a manager at Taco Bell. We move about 300,000 pounds of this stuff down people's throats a year. It doesn't have meat, unless one of those damn rats fall in a grinder, but that's still not as bad as when Enrique lost a hand. We couldn't just dump all that veggie meat, so... ah nevermind, I'm ramblin. It's soy and beef flavoring. Oh, and why are you a vegitarian, if we weren't ment to eat meat, we wouldn't be able to digest it.
well its not soy...but I wouldnt call it meat....but heres a website where they explain it...scroll to the bottom for the answer
Vegan dishes are Bean Burrito (without cheese), Bean Tostada (without cheese), nachos without cheese, Mexican Rice (without cheese), Seven Layer Burrito (no sour cream or no cheese) and the Guacamole. Vegan sauces are mild, red, hot, fire, Soft Tortillas, Pizza Sauce and Green Sauce. Corn tortillas (hard tacos), burritos tortillas and wheat tortilla (soft tacos) are vegan.
The soft burrito tortillas are not vegan, they contain non-fat dry milk. The hard corn tortillas however are vegan, as are the refried beans. The pinto bean are vegan.
Vegetarian dishes are Bean Tostada (without cheese), Pintos n' Cheese, Mexican Pizza without meat, taco salad without meat, Breakfast Quesadilla, Country Breakfast without the sausage, Chalupa shell, Veggie Fajita Wrap, tortilla chips, Gordita flatbread, Seven-Layer Burrito with no sour cream and tostada shells. The Gordita and Chalupa shells contain milk products.
The sour cream contains gelatin derived from an animal source. The Fajita sauce may contain chicken flavoring. The Ranch dressing usually contains eggs and milk.
They say that their cheeses are Kosher and that because of the cost of using rennet derived from animal sources that they use genetically engineered coagulants. Their supplier during the production of the cheese uses a non-animal genetically engineered coagulant (an enzyme) derived from a genetically engineered strain of dairy yeast, Kluyveromyces Lactis.
According to information that they sent me their Mexican Rice (see below for warning) does not contain chicken broth and their Guacamole does not contain sour cream that is meat derived. According to their letter both these products are vegan.
I recieved this letter "I just thought that you'd be interested to know that (according to several friends who have worked at 2-3 separate Taco Bell franchises throughout West Virginia), certain locations use the drained fat from their ground beef to season the rice used in many of the burritos. There may be other things also flavored with this grease, but I do know for certain that they use the lard in the rice."
If you email them on their Web Site they will send you answers to any question you ask about the vegetarian friendliness of their products and also send you a complete list of the ingredients of all the products that they sell.
It's real meat...but I would never want to guess where it came from.
I have had soy burger, and if that is soy burger, Taco Bell is doing things with soy that would make the most innovative vegan blush.
The popular perception is that, because Taco Bell is so inexpensive, and looks a smidge artificial, that none of it is "real" food. Therefore, we get rumors that suggest the meat isn't real, or that it is the meat they serve in dog food.
Taco Bell is pretty (nutritionally) comparable to any other fast food joint, for better or worse. The ingredients are real, and they keep things cheap by mass producing it, making you go up to the counter and get it, and limiting variety.
Someone once told me that both Jack in the Box and Taco Bell both use soy "meat" for their tacos. I contacted both corporations and in both cases the answer I got back is that they use 100% ground beef that is seasoned with various spices and flavorings.
Taco Bell (and Del Taco if you have them in your area) do have a large number of vegetarian options, however. At TB, for example there are 7-Layer Burritos which are vegetarian (though they do contain dairy of course), tostadas, potatoes and cheese, bean and cheese burritos, and they will make several things with beans instead of meat at no added charge.
Its beef. Read the nutrition information at their website.
you can get both
It's beef and low quality at that.
DesertRose nailed it! I've personally had the experience of getting beans doctored with meat drippings at a Taco Bell, after covering my medical bills they pay a LOT more attention when I call about restaurants not sticking to the plan
Be aware that in some parts of the country the franchises *are* allowed to put taco meat into the 7 layer burritos! Always ask before ordering!!!