Lactic acid What it is: A naturally-derived ingredient used to control acidity. Caramel color What it is: A somewhat controversial food coloring that makes things brown. Cocoa powder What it is: You probably mixed it up and drank it all winter, possibly with alcohol.
Tags tacos, Taco Bell. Sign Out. Taco Bell: "It's a naturally occurring sugar that we use to improve the taste of our seasoned beef. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. Top Stories. Missouri man who buried wife's body convicted of her murder 1 hour ago.
We use a small amount as a thickener and to maintain moisture in our seasoned beef. We say : Cornstarch, like the stuff in your cupboard you use to thicken sauces. It helps with moisture to bind substances that would otherwise separate — like oil and water. We say : Yes. Almost everything we eat out or buy is chock full of sugar, soy, and corn derivatives.
Considering the amount in a given taco, you are just fine. That said if we continuously eat all these things in all our foods all the time the results are theoretically troublesome. Good on Taco Bell for their honesty and the fact that they have continued to improve ingredients and be transparent. Still, the overarching idea that so many preservatives are used in our foods has their own pros and cons. Fact Myth. It was too sweet and the strangest color.
I did not eat anything but the lettuce and tomatoes. I will never eat there again. Businesses good ones at least want to know these things. While Taco Bell admitted in that it added cocoa powder to its recipe to enrich the meat's color, the joint stated that "cocoa powder doesn't add any flavor to our recipe," ABC News reports. However, the Bell's beef recipe has changed since then, when it tidied up its menu of unnecessary additives in such as high fructose corn syrup and unnatural dyes.
Now, instead of cocoa powder, Taco Bell uses real cocoa. Besides the tacos, the fast food giant fills its Crunchwraps, Chalupas, Cheesy Gordita Crunch, and even its Fiesta Taco Salad with the cocoa-spiked seasoned beef.
What's more, it also sprinkles cocoa powder into a handful of more unassuming offerings such as in its grilled steak marinade as well as the creamy jalapeno sauce.
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