Taco Bell Meat: Where's the beef? - Huffington Post

Beef Taco Bell is under fire, but if only 36 percent of the "beef" is actually beef by volume, the rest of what?

From cocoa producing electricity in general terms such as "spices", the other 64 percent is attributable to a variety of fillers or preservatives.

Is it a beef at all? Alabama law firm bringing the action against the chain does not think so.

Gizmodo:

According to the USDA, they can call their range "beef" in general. The beef is USDA as "the meat of cattle" is defined, and ground meat is defined as:

Chopped fresh and / or frozen with or without spices, without adding beef fat as such should not be more than 30 percent fat and no added water, phosphates, binders or fillers.

The complete list of ingredients in the "taco meat filling is below.

Taco Bell Beef Ingredients:

1. Water
2. oat products isolated
3. Salt
4. Pimento
5. onion powder
6. Tomato powder
7. Oats (wheat)
8. soy lecithin
9. Sugar
10. Spices
11. Maltodextrin (a polysaccharide that is absorbed as glucose)
12. Soybean oil (anti-dusting)
13. Garlic powder
14. autolyzed yeast extract
15. Citric acid, caramel color
16. Cocoa powder
17. Silica (release agent)
18. Natural flavors
19. Yeast
20. Modified corn starch
21. Natural smoke flavoring
22. Salt
23. sodium phosphate
24. Less than 2% of beef broth
25. potassium phosphate
26. Potassium lactate

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