Taco Bell unveils over 20 new menu items at annual Live Más Event

Taco Bell announced a slate of new menu items, ranging from a permanent addition to several new food and beverage offerings, at its annual Live Más LIVE event.

The event, now in its third year, serves as the chain’s yearly product showcase. Rapper Vince Staples hosted the showcase.

Here’s what Taco Bell unveiled during Live Más Live

It’s official!

Taco Bell said its longtime limited‑time item, Nacho Fries, will join the permanent national menu later this year. The chain also previewed new variations, including Flamin’ Hot Nacho Fries, served with a spicy Flamin’ Hot cheese sauce.

Crispy Chicken line expanding

Taco Bell introduced a series of seasoned chicken nuggets, each coated in a different dusting:

• Diablo Dusted Crispy Chicken Nuggets: Nuggers seasoned with a dry version of Taco Bell’s Diablo sauce.
• Doritos Cool Ranch Dusted Nuggets: Nuggets coated in Doritos Cool Ranch seasoning and paired with a Doritos Cool Ranch dipping sauce
• Flamin’ Hot Dusted Nuggets: Nuggets dusted with Flamin’ Hot seasonings.

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Desserts

• Mountain Dew Baja Midnight Pie: Following last year’s Baja Blast pie, the new citrus‑forward dessert is reminiscent of key lime pie or sorbet.
• Crème brûlée Crunchwrap Slider: A dessert version of the chain’s signature wrap.
• Milk Bar Birthday Cake Empanada: A crispy, golden empanada filled with birthday cake batter, topped with pink frosting and rainbow sprinkles.
• Chocolate Fudge & Caramel Empanadas: A set of dessert empanadas that comes with one chocolate fudge and one caramel empanada per order.
• Strawberries & Cream Mexican Pizza Bite: A tostada filled with a scoop of cheesecake filling, chopped strawberries macerated with cinnamon sugar, and topped with white chocolate shavings.

‘Category-defying’ new items

The chain previewed several new formats and twists on existing menu staples:

• Cheesy G Sliders: Flatbread sandwiches wrapped around fried corn shells with cheese, pico de gallo and chipotle sauce.
• Cantina Chicken Mexican Pizza with Jalapeño Citrus Salsa: Slow-roasted chicken and black beans layered between crispy tortillas, topped with green chile sauce, a three-cheese blend, cabbage, and pico de gallo – served with a new Jalapeño Citrus Salsa and an Avocado Verde Salsa.
• Mexican Pizza Empanadas: Bite‑sized empanadas filled with beef and cheese.
• Flamin’ Hot Mini Taco Salad: Served in a tortilla bowl rimmed with Flamin’ Hot seasoning.

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Beverage additions

• Mountain Dew Baja Midnight Zero: The drink blends passionfruit flavor with the iconic tropical lime taste of Mountain Dew Baja Blast, now with zero sugar.
• Strawberry Horchata Refresca: This drink, inspired by traditional Mexican horchata, has cinnamon, vanilla, strawberry syrup, and is topped with real freeze-dried strawberry pieces. Served ice-cold.
• Cold Brew with Purple Horchata Cold Foam
• Salt & Straw Tacolate Chiller: A blended version of the ice‑cream‑taco collaboration.

Taco Bell innovation

The chain also previewed several limited‑concept or experiential items, including:

• Fire Queso Sauce Packet: An edible version of the chain’s hot sauce packet.
• Mountain Dew Baja Blast Under‑Eye Patches: A skincare item infused with caffeine and citrus.
• Queso Cracked Cantina Bowl: Seasoned rice, slow-roasted chicken, black beans, lettuce, purple cabbage, reduced-fat sour cream, pico de gallo, cotija dip, and topped off with chile – lime seasoning and a cheddar cheese top layer.
• Firecracker Burrito: A red flour tortilla shell is filled with seasoned rice, nacho cheese sauce, seasoned beef, fiesta tortilla strips, chipotle sauce, reduced-fat sour  cream, and a sprinkling of cayenne “poppin crystals.”

The event drew a star-studded crowd, including Ariana Madix, Ashley Park, Benson Boone, Davante Adams, The Bella Twins, Anderson .Paak, Doja Cat, Fernando Mendoza, Demi Lovato and more.

For the first time, the Live Más LIVE special is streaming on Peacock.

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