{"id":21572,"date":"2023-07-26T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=21572"},"modified":"2023-07-10T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T16:01:24","slug":"del-taco-veggie-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2023\/07\/26\/del-taco-veggie-options\/","title":{"rendered":"DEL TACO VEGGIE OPTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These are some items listed as vegan on the Del Taco website:
\nChips & Fresh House-made Guac
\nCrinkle Cut Fries
\nPinto Beans
\nSeasoned Black Beans
\nSnack Taco Shell
\nTortilla
\nTortilla Chips<\/p>\n

Del Taco states:
\n“Please be advised that there is a possibility for cross contact with allergens and animal products within Del Taco kitchens and prep areas. A vegetarian diet does not include any meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish or by-products of animal slaughter. A vegan diet avoids animal foods such as meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish, dairy, eggs and honey.”<\/p>\n

“*Please be aware that our restaurants use the same frying oil to prepare menu items that could have meat in them. All vegetarian ingredients may possibly come into contact with meat ingredients, which may be unacceptable to particular kinds of vegetarian eating plans. We cannot confirm whether any of our ingredients did not come into contact with meat products. This holds true for Del Taco and\/or our franchisees.”<\/p>\n

For more info, see https:\/\/deltaco.com\/files\/pdf\/2023\/allergens-05-2023.pdf?v=1<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition, a Vegetarian Resource Group reader wrote: “Hello! I use your website a lot when I eat at the big food chains so I wanted to contribute too now that I have a chance to.\u00a0I reached out to Del Taco to confirm their cheese enzymes are not from an animal source.\u201d<\/p>\n

Del Taco responded: “Thank you for reaching out to Del Taco. In answer to your question about Del Taco\u2019s cheese products, our cheese products contains microbial rennet and is not derived from an animal source.”<\/p>\n

For more on other restaurant chains, see https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/fastfoodinfo.php<\/a><\/p>\n

For information about veggie restaurants in the USA and Canada, see https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/restaurant\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n

The contents of this posting, our website and our other publications, including Vegetarian Journal and Vegan Journal, are not intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. We often depend on product and ingredient information from company statements. It is impossible to be 100% sure about a statement, info can change, people have different views, and mistakes can be made. Please use your best judgment about whether a product is suitable for you. To be sure, do further research or confirmation on your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are some items listed as vegan on the Del Taco website: Chips & Fresh House-made Guac Crinkle Cut Fries Pinto Beans Seasoned Black Beans Snack Taco Shell Tortilla Tortilla Chips Del Taco states: “Please be advised that there is a possibility for cross contact with allergens and animal products within Del Taco kitchens and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21574,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21572\/revisions\/21574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}