Taco Bell Clarifies: That Recent Lawsuit Is Bogus-Our Seasoned Beef Recipe Is 88% Beef! [Food]

Ready for more beef drama ? After a terse initial response to a lawsuit claiming that only a small percentage of its ‘Taco Meat Filling’ is basically beef , Taco Bell followed up with a pretty detailed breakdown of the mysterious recipe.

This is the statement that was provided by a Taco Bell representative:

UPDATED STATEMENT REGARDING CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT

” The lawsuit is bogus and packed with completely inaccurate facts. Our beef is 100% USDA inspected, kind of like the quality beef you may buy in a supermarket and prepare in your house. It then is slow-cooked and simmered with proprietary seasonings and spices to produce Taco Bell’s signature taste and texture. Our seasoned beef recipe contains 88% quality USDA-inspected beef and 12% seasonings, spices, water and other ingredients that offer taste, texture and moisture. The lawyers got their facts wrong. We take this attack on our quality very seriously and plan to take legal action against them for making false statements about our products. There isn’t a basis in reality or reality for this suit and we can vigorously defend the quality of our products from frivolous and misleading claims reminiscent of this.”

What is in Taco Bell’s recipe for seasoned beef?

” We’re cooking with a proprietary recipe to provide our seasoned beef flavor and texture, identical to you might with any recipe you cook at home.

For example, after you make chili, meatloaf or meatballs, you add your individual recipe of seasoning and spices to offer the beef flavor and texture, otherwise, it is going to taste kind of like unseasoned ground beef. We do a similar thing with our recipe for seasoned beef.

Our recipe for seasoned beef includes ingredients you’d find in your house or within the supermarket aisle today:

88% USDA-inspected quality beef
3-5% water for moisture
3-5% spices (including salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, sugar, garlic powder, cocoa powder and a proprietary blend of Mexican spices and natural flavors).
3-5% oats, starch, sugar, yeast, citric acid, and other ingredients that contribute to the quality of our product.

Our seasoned beef contains no ” extenders” to add volume, as some might use. For additional information about our ingredients go to http://www.tacobell.com .”

Greg Creed
President and Chief Concept Officer
Taco Bell Corp.

In case you’re curious, it’s also possible to find this statement-at the side of any updates to it-on Taco Bell’s website . You can see Taco Bell’s first statement here and our initial coverage of the lawsuit here .

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