Taco Bell Reveals Its Mystery Beef Ingredients

[KamaAina]

http://gma.yahoo.com/taco-bell-reveals-mystery-beef-ingredients-201253055--abc-news-Recipes.html

After Taco Bell started telling the public its beef is 88 percent beef, customers were left to wonder, what's the other 12 percent?...

The company states on the website that they "do have weird names," but they're all "safe and approved by the FDA."

"They're common ingredients also found in food items at your grocery store," the company states. "Each ingredient helps make our Seasoned Beef taste great. Many of them are items you might use at home such as salt, peppers, and spices. Ingredients like oats and sodium phosphates help make sure the texture is right."

The company also noted it uses only USDA-inspected, "100 percent premium real beef" and no monosodium glutamate, or MSG, which is a flavor enhancer.

Fine, they're safe and approved by the FDA, for whatever that's worth. But 12 percent? And which of those ingredients gives you the runs?

[tridim]

1. My famous meatballs are less than 50% meat.

Meh, just don't eat a lot of fast food and you'll be fine.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. Let's just say -- there really is more than 1 way to skin a cat.

[madville]

3. When I make meatloaf

It's probably less than 75% meat because of the veggies and filler/binder.

No ones taco meat is 100% meat unless it's completely unseasoned.

[Codeine]

4. There's nothing particularly strange in there, actually.

I don't et meat, but that list doesn't sound terribly frightening.

[Thor_MN]

5. If you make your own taco meat from a dry packet, you add 8 ounces of water to a pound of beef.

Granted much of that evaporates, but at what point do you total the ingredients to get the percentages? Pre or post cook?

[Mika]

6. Mystery meat wrapped in 100% Monsanto GMO corn taco/tortilla.

What could go wrong?

[Capt. Obvious]

7. FUCK NADER

[msongs]

8. well thanks to him we no longer eat corvairs...at any speed nt

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. TVP is probably one of the ingredients.

When we make tacos at home, rehydrated TVP is half by volume.

[madinmaryland]

10. The thread right above yours, is from joeybee..

"Woman admits tossing dog into traffic over dispute," and I got a sick feeling in my stomach.

I always felt there was a reason it was called "Taco Belch".