How to order vegetarian at Taco Bell?

Start from the lines that already pass

29 items on the menus read pass as published: Avocado Verde Salsa Sauce Packet, Diablo Sauce Packet, Fire Sauce Packet, Hot Sauce Packet, Mild Sauce Packet, Bean Burrito, Chips and Nacho Cheese Sauce and Cinnamon Twists and 21 more. Each is priced and listed with its record on the vegetarian menu page.

The steps

1. Read the tags. Every ingredient statement tags its components certified vegan or certified vegetarian; an item passes on this site only when every component is tagged. The item page prints the tags.
2. Swap the protein. The product pages offer bean swaps on most lines: on the Crunchwrap Supreme, Beans at 60 calories, no charge and Black Beans at 50 calories, no charge; a swapped build has no record of its own, so the calorie change printed is the option’s figure, not a panel.
3. Check the cheese and the sauces. The AVA standard is lacto-ovo, so cheese and sour cream pass; the tags on each component say which are vegetarian and which are vegan.
4. Read the fryer note. “Please note that in some restaurants we may use the same frying oil to prepare menu items that could contain meat.”

What a swapped build is not

A nutrition record. The panel on every item page is the item as published; an option’s calorie figure is the ordering menu’s own number for the option, printed with that label. This site never sums a build into a panel the brand did not publish.

The certification, in the guide’s words

“Items designated as vegetarian on our menu are lacto-ovo, allowing the consumption of dairy and eggs but does not include any animal byproducts.” “Please note that in some restaurants we may use the same frying oil to prepare menu items that could contain meat.”