Diablo nuggets land April 16

Taco Bell will start selling Diablo Dusted Crispy Chicken Nuggets nationwide on April 16, giving its hottest Diablo flavor a limited-time run in dry seasoning form. (qsrweb.com) The nuggets use all-white-meat chicken with tortilla chip breading, then add “Diablo Dust,” a powdered version of Diablo Sauce that Taco Bell first introduced in 2015. Taco Bell said the item will be sold at participating United States locations for a limited time. (prnewswire.com) Taco Bell’s help page says its Crispy Chicken Nuggets come with Bell Sauce, Jalapeño Honey Mustard, or new Hidden Valley Diablo Ranch Sauce. Coverage of the April 16 launch says the chain will offer five-piece and 10-piece orders, plus meal and combo formats. (help.tacobell.com) (usatoday.com) The launch extends Taco Bell’s chicken push after the chain brought back Crispy Chicken Nuggets in late 2025 and said it was building toward a permanent crispy chicken menu by 2026. In the April 9 announcement, Taco Bell called the Diablo version the latest step in that plan. (qsrmagazine.com) (newsnationnow.com) The product also fits Taco Bell’s recent pattern of turning familiar flavors into short-run menu events. Liz Matthews, Taco Bell’s global chief food innovation officer, said Diablo Sauce has “a cult following” and that turning it into dust changes how the heat lands on the food. (qsrweb.com) Taco Bell has also been using fan voting to shape what comes next. Last week, the chain said Rewards members picked the Butter Chicken Taco from India over Thailand’s Kickin’ Chicken Taco in its first Global Taco Vote, setting up a United States release later in 2026. (yahoo.com) (nripulse.com) That leaves Taco Bell with two different menu signals in April: a hotter version of an existing chicken item arriving on April 16, and another internationally inspired taco already queued for later this year. For now, the immediate test is whether Diablo fans want the sauce packet flavor on nuggets instead of in a packet. (prnewswire.com) (yahoo.com)