What is this in my energy drink......?*SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY*?!
Then i bought a energy drink. it made me come up with a few questions.
what is taurine? i heard it comes from bull testies.......(not meaning to be rude thats just what i heard.)
and one more what is milk thistle doing in my energy drink?
thanks!
Answers: i went to GNC and i saw inositol and i'm wondering what is it?
Then i bought a energy drink. it made me come up with a few questions.
what is taurine? i heard it comes from bull testies.......(not meaning to be rude thats just what i heard.)
and one more what is milk thistle doing in my energy drink?
thanks!
Milk thistle is an herbal supplement. It's supposed to be good for the liver. It's a type of plant and has nothing to do with a dairy product.
Inositol is a chemical supplement that claims to aid in lowering cholesterol levels.
Taurine is an amino acid found in low levels in many human tissues and in higher levels in bile. It aids with digestion.
taurine is a type of acid, nothing harmful really and it is certainly not from a bull's testis. They just add it for flavor. Milk thistle i bieleve is just an herb, so they probably just extract stuff from it.
TAURINE (aminoethanesulfanic acid) Taurine is named after the Latin taurus, which means bull or ox, as it was first isolated from ox bile in 1827 by Austrian scientists Friedrich Tiedemann and Leopold Gmelin. It is often called an amino acid (from WikiPedia)
INOSITOL is a carbocyclic polyol that plays an important role as the structural basis for a number of secondary messengers in eukaryotic cells, including inositol phosphates, phosphatidylinositol (PI) and phosphatidylinositol phosphate (PIP) lipids. It is found in many foods, in particular, in cereals with high bran content, nuts, beans, and fruit, especially cantaloupe melons and oranges. Inositol is not considered a vitamin itself because it can be synthesised by the body.(again, from WikiPedia)
Inositol, (of which the most prominent naturally-occurring form is myo-inositol, cis-1,2,3,5-trans-4,6-cyclohexanehexol), is a carbocyclic polyol that plays an important role as the structural basis for a number of secondary messengers in eukaryotic cells, including inositol phosphates, phosphatidylinositol (PI) and phosphatidylinositol phosphate (PIP) lipids. It is found in many foods, in particular, in cereals with high bran content, nuts, beans, and fruit, especially cantaloupe melons and oranges. Inositol is not considered a vitamin itself because it can be synthesised by the body.
Other naturally-occurring isomers (though in minimal quantities) are scyllo-, chiro-, muco-, and neo-inositol. Other possible isomers are allo-, epi-, and cis-inositol.
Myo-Inositol is classified as a member of the vitamin B complex (often referred to as vitamin B8), and is synthesized by the human body.