Nowadays, there are meat analogs that take the form of ham slices, breakfast sausages, beef, bacon, and chicken. There are numerous hot dogs and hamburgers for sale that are made with non-meat ingredients as the sole source of protein. The growing awareness of the link between empty calories, saturated fat, and heart disease has incentivized manufacturers to try to lower the saturated fat and cholesterol content of meat products in order to increase consumer acceptance.
They found out early on that the fat in ground beef could easily be reduced by simply removing some of the meat and substituting it with certain low-calorie extenders like texturized vegetable protein TVP as well as soy proteins, various starches and fibers maltodextrin, modified food starches, etc.
This is how soy found its way into Jack in the Box tacos. Soy is a favorite for use in ground beef and fabricated or restructured meat products—i. Gross, I know. The meat is separated mechanically into chunks and particles and then molded together into uniform shapes and sizes by use of various binders.
Other binders used for this purpose include gelatin, egg albumen, wheat proteins, and milk proteins. Worcestershire sauce is a popular fermented condiment used to marinate and flavor meat. There are vegan-friendly versions of the sauce, but they are specialty products, and thus not used in food manufacturing. Standard Worcestershire sauce tends to include anchovies along with spirit vinegar, barley malt vinegar, sugar and molasses, tamarind extract, salt, garlic and onions, spices, and flavorings.
Apparently, they do. I did not see dairy on the label shown above, but the allergen section of the website indicated that dairy is used in regular tacos. Jack in the Box crunchy tacos come standard with American cheese. One might think that by simply forgoing the cheese would render the food product dairy-free. However, according to the allergen info on the Jack in the Box website, both the Bacon Nacho Tacos and the Regular Tacos contain milk products.
How could that be? If you're trying to put that number in perspective, according to MSN News , that's more-or-less the equivalent weight of three Saturn V rockets — the rocket that took people to the moon in — not one rocket, not two rockets, but three giant rockets. The company also hands out more than million packets of taco sauce each year — presumably, they're not all used on the company's 99 cent tacos they do sell other tacos, of course, and people love using the sauce for other things , but still, that's a lot of sauce.
Those "grill marks" on your taco shells? Yes, they're really there — they're not a figment of your imagination — don't mean that your taco is getting grilled in the back of the store before being thrown into its individual sleeve. It's in these plants that the tortillas are made from stone-ground white corn.
An article on Delish explains that the grill marks on the tortillas are from a conveyor belt where the shells are moved through a degree oven to make them nice and crispy. You know, before they're deep-fried in the stores. Once the tortillas are cooked, they're filled with whatever Jack in the Box passes off as beef surely there's real meat in there somewhere, but more on that later , before they're shrink-wrapped and frozen and shipped off to the fast-food restaurants across the country.
Jack in the Box seems to understand that you don't mess with a good thing. When a product is popular and you sell it in mass, obviously something's working and there's no point in introducing changes that could screw things up.
And that's exactly the case with the Jack in the Box tacos. An article in Mental Floss points out that the recipe hasn't really changed in about 50 years, describing it as follows, "seasoned meat lump, two triangles of American cheese, some shredded iceberg lettuce, and a little sauce.
Sounds appetizing. And not altogether incorrect. In a Reddit thread where a Jack in the Box customer asked whether the taco frying process had changed at some point, a former Jack in the Box employee explained exactly how the tacos are constructed — a process he said had been in place for years, given that he had to watch a training video from the s before frying his first batch of tacos.
According to this Redditor, mattsfdg, the frozen tacos remember, just the meat-filled tortillas are kept in a fridge next to the fryer. When tacos are ordered, frozen tacos are pulled from the fridge and placed in a taco holder that is dunked in the fryer for the pre-determined "taco time. That's it.
The process has never changed. One possible explanation a twisted explanation, but still It's like eating these tacos is an opportunity for being a self-deprecating food critic — pretty much every article that talks about Jack in the Box's tacos starts out by creatively describing how bad they are, followed almost immediately by comments on how they're simultaneously addictive. Take, for instance, an article in OC Weekly , where the author states, "But I write not to derogate Jack in the Box tacos but to praise them — wrenching digestive pains notwithstanding, dem snacks were more addictive than hillbilly heroin.
In , Jack in the Box released a new menu item — Tiny Tacos. According to Culture Map Houston , they're exactly what they sound like — a box full of 15 tiny, deep-fried tacos, each of which you can consume in about two bites.
You can order them "loaded" with lettuce, cheese, and taco sauce dumped on top toppings very similar to what you find stuffed inside the traditional tacos , or you can order them plain, with a side of avocado-lime dipping sauce. But as the author points out, these aren't shrunken versions of the original tacos.
The main difference is that the larger tacos come with a beef filling, whereas the tiny tacos are filled with a chicken. Also, the avocado-lime dipping sauce is a break from the original, which is topped with taco sauce and is often paired with ranch dressing. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try them — they're different but still tasty. It's important to note that on the Jack in the Box website , the description for the "Two Tacos" never mentions meat.
At all. It doesn't mention beef. It doesn't state that the tacos include a protein source of any kind. Rather, it simply states, "Two crunchy tacos with American cheese, shredded lettuce, and taco sauce. And if you click on the "Ingredients" link? You'll be taken to a page with the company's allergen information , not a page with information about the tacos' ingredients. Net carbs are calculated by subtracting fiber from total carbs. Example: A product with 26 grams of total carbohydrates and 9 grams of fiber will have 17 grams net carbs.
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Table sugar and high fructose corn syrup are examples of added sugars. Natural sugars are those found in foods such as lactose in milk. The American Heart Association recommends limiting the amount of added sugars you consume to no more than half of your daily discretionary calories allowance. They are not an endorsement or approval of the product or its manufacturer. The fewer points - the better. Contains sulfites Sulfites are inorganic salts that have antioxidant and preservative properties.
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