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Sweetgreen bans bacon and sriracha

"Simply put, you can’t be a healthy food business and serve bacon."

Sriracha and bacon are now gone from Sweetgreen's menu as the syndicated salad-maker is on what it calls a mission to fix America's "broken" food system.

"Simply put, you can't be a healthy food business and serve bacon," the company said in a statement. "Removing bacon is another step to get the menu to a healthier, more wholesome place."

But hot sauce? "The second ingredient in sriracha is sugar," the company said. It's been replaced with "the natural, sugar-free heat of dried chiles."

Sweetgreen also added portobello mushrooms and sustainably raised steelhead trout, which it is billing simply as steelhead. (See this explainer.)