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Want to try taurine, or prefer to decide for yourself how much you take per day? These capsules from NOW Foods each contain 500mg of free-form taurine. That is a modest dose per capsule, allowing you to build up easily. One capsule for a gentle start, or spread throughout the day up to four. This way you can tailor it to your own habits.
Taurine is often called an amino acid, but technically it is an aminosulfonic acid (a relative of the amino acids with a sulfur group instead of an acid group). The difference lies in what your body does with it. You use regular amino acids to build proteins. Not taurine. It is freely dissolved in your cells, especially in your heart, muscles, brain and eyes. Your body makes it itself from cysteine and methionine, two sulfur-containing amino acids. In addition, you get it from food such as fish, shellfish, meat and dairy. Good to know: the name comes from the Latin taurus, bull, because it was first extracted from ox gall in the nineteenth century. The taurine in these capsules is synthetically made, so not from an animal source. Only the capsule material is animal-derived.
Taurine is freely dissolved in your cells. In your liver, your body couples taurine with bile acids. There are no approved EU health claims for taurine.
The biggest sources of taurine on your plate are shellfish, dark chicken meat and fish. A serving of mussels or squid easily provides a few hundred milligrams. Dairy and red meat contain less, and plant-based products contain almost nothing. Yet your body also makes a part of it itself. That own production goes through your liver and is dependent on enough cysteine, methionine and vitamin B6.
An average Western diet provides about 40 to 400mg of taurine per day. With 500mg per capsule, you choose where you end up: from half a gram to 2 grams, because NOW Foods recommends 1 to 4 capsules per day. The difference with the Double Strength version therefore lies in the finer steps. Handy if you want to divide taurine over morning, afternoon and evening. These taurine capsules are filled with rice flour as a filler and are in a gelatin capsule. That means they are not suitable for vegetarians or vegans.
What you get in your house is therefore simple: 500mg taurine per capsule, with only rice flour and a gelatin capsule added. No yeast, gluten, soy or milk. One hundred capsules last well over three months at one per day, almost four weeks at four per day. You determine the pace.
You choose between 500mg and 2 grams per day. This allows you to build up gradually or spread the taurine throughout the day.
The ingredient list is short: free-form taurine, rice flour as a bulking agent, and a gelatin capsule. No sugar, caffeine, or sweeteners.
NOW Foods makes these capsules without wheat, gluten, soy, milk, egg, fish, shellfish or nuts. However, they are made in a GMP facility that also processes those allergens.
With one capsule a day, 100 capsules will last you over three months. Ideal for figuring out which quantity suits you.
* Percentage van de referentie inname volgens Verordening (EU) Nr. 1169/2011.
** Reference intake unknown.
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Taurine is an amino sulfonic acid that occurs freely dissolved in your cells. Your liver couples it with bile acids. There are no authorized EU health claims for taurine. You will find it in high concentrations in your heart, muscles, eyes, and brain.
Take between 1 and 4 500 mg capsules throughout the day, preferably between meals. If you are just starting, one capsule per day is a sensible starting point. Take the capsules with water or juice.
No, the capsule is made from gelatin. The taurine itself is synthetic and therefore not animal-derived. If you are looking for a vegan version, check out Taurine 1000mg Double Strength by NOW Foods, which comes in a plant-based capsule.
NOW Foods recommends 1 to 4 capsules per day, so 500mg to 2 grams of taurine. Do not exceed this dose. If you use blood pressure lowering medications or diuretics, consult your doctor first.
Yes, your liver produces taurine from the amino acids cysteine and methionine, with the help of vitamin B6. The amount you produce yourself is limited; the rest comes from food. Because taurine is found mainly in fish, meat, and dairy, people who eat plant-based foods get very little of it through their diet.
The difference lies in the dosage and the capsule. This variant contains 500mg per gelatin capsule with rice flour; the Double Strength contains 1000mg in a plant-based cellulose capsule. With 500mg you can dose more precisely, with 1000mg you swallow fewer capsules.
