Taco Bell is now the first quick service restaurant to offer menu items certified by the American Vegetarian Association. Taco Bell’s vegetarian menu offers 13 AVA-certified menu items – customers can also add any of the 35 AVA-certified vegetarian ingredients (26 of which are also vegan) to their meals and/or substitute beans for meat to create a veggie-friendly combinations.

This is a continuation of the announcement in May, that it would remove of all artificial flavors and colors in its foods – plus added trans fat, high fructose corn syrup and unsustainable palm oil by the end of 2015. Taco Bell has local area locations in Elmwood Park, Hackensack, Hasbrouck Heights, Montvale, Nanuet, North Arlington, Paramus, Wayne and West Nyack. Full info on their entire menu is available at the Taco Bell website.