Is it true that taurine is bull sperm?!
Answers: if so im not drinking energy drinks ever
Taurine, or 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, is an organic acid. It is also a major constituent of bile and can be found in lower amounts in the tissues of many animals including humans. Taurine is a derivative of the sulfur-containing (sulfhydryl) amino acid, cysteine. Taurine is the only known naturally occurring sulfonic 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, even in scientific literature, but as it lacks a carboxyl group it is not strictly an amino acid. It does contain a sulfonate group and may be called an amino sulfonic acid. Small polypeptides have been identified which contain taurine but to date no aminoacyl tRNA synthetase has been identified as specifically recognizing taurine and capable of incorporating it onto a tRNA.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurine
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No, taurine is even found in some shellfish - not sure how many bulls would have to ... how may times into the ocean to get shellfish to show signs of it. Taurine is needed by the body in differing amounts for the muscles & nerves... also very important for a cat's diet. There was an instance in the far east where a zoo was feeding tiger cubs poultry (which is low in taurine), the little tigers could barely walk because of the absence from their diet. Also good for the liver.
