“I get really tired and depressed throughout the day and I found if I take one taurine tablet per day my energy levels improve a lot. Very easy to swallow, no flavour. I have been taking one tablet daily for a few days now and I feel a lot more confident, happier and energised.”
“I recently tried Vegavero's Taurine Plus capsules, and I must say, I'm impressed! The combination of taurine, curcumin, and L-theanine really seems to give me that extra boost, especially before hitting the gym or diving into a tough work project. I love that they use high quality extracts, and overall I'm happy with the results and will definitely be buying more.”
“He pedido este suplemento a base de Taurina
Me tomo dos capsulas en ayunas
He notado que mejora y mantiene mi concentraciĂłn y energĂa a lo largo del dĂa
El que venga formulado con cĂşrcuma, vitamina B3 y Teanina potencia aun mas sus grandes propiedades como antioxidante
Me parece un suplemento interesante con buenos resultados”
“I'm not sure about this one. I used these ingredients seperately with positive experiences, but with this one, I'm not really sure. I think the Turmeric is the most dominant, when it comes to effectiveness, but it's hard to tell. I think this was a good idea, but in practice it underperforms, like most multi-vitamin supplements and it's also ended up on the more expensive side.”
“These capsules are easy to swallow and i have found them to be gentle on the stomach. There are 90 capsules in total of which the recommended intake is 2 capsules per day. They are suitable for vegans and have turmeric- black pepper extract, L- thiamine as well as vitamin B3.
They have a decent use by date, so far i am very happy with them and have added them to my daily routine.”
“Bright yellow capsules. The only thing I have that looks vaguely similar is my 100% turmeric supplements but even those aren't quite as yellow so these are easy to identify.
They are the usual supplement size so are easy to swallow although I also sometimes open them and pour the powder into my coffee to combine with the caffeine for an added boost.
I already take lions mane for focus so these are additional to help me through the day and as such I don't always take 2 every day but reserve that dose for days when I know my workload will be heavy.”
“This is a simple Taurine offering with some synergystic extra ingredients. Although I like it when companies do this and add ingredients that should work well together the only down side is that the price tends to go up with those extra ingredients. Quite often in my opinon quite often not portionaly. This contains 90 capsules so is a 45 days supply 2x capsules per day. Each capsule is 500Mg which is about average some supplements are 1500mg but with 3x capsules per day. So good offering of the supplement but slightly too pricey.”
“Precis (TL;DR): Seriously expensive.
If you want to skip this next bit of general info, jump to “THIS PRODUCT” a few paragraphs down.
With food supplements for which there are no Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs; also called Nutrient Reference Values, NRV) it is hard to make value for money comparisons; dosages vary hugely by manufacturer, and yet each warns you not to take more than “their” recommended dose. Eh? All you can do is seek out the best medical and nutritional information you can and then make your dosage choice, always remembering that “more” is not always the same as “better”, and that in any case manufacturer’s claims of “more” (typically by putting huge numbers on their labels) may be misleading.
Here are some of the things you need to look out for when shopping around:
(1) (1) “Servings” vs individual pill strength. Unlike medicines such as aspirin, where the active ingredient quantity of each tablet must by law be shown on the label, food supplements are under no such obligation; the strength shown on their labels (eg “2000mg max strength) often refers to their recommended serving (eg the tablets may only be 500mg and you should take 4). This makes most label strength claims meaningless; I know one manufacturer who sells the identical 5,000mg tablets under 3 labels: “5000mg”, “5000mg for women”, and “15,000mg - they then make sure you buy the same amount in the end by having a recommended “serving” of 15,000mg for each. I’d bet you’d have thought the “15,000mg” tub was stronger and have been prepared to pay more for it, wouldn’t you? For this reason a temptingly big tub shouting out “1000mg Milk Thistle, 60 tablets” for £10 may actually be worse value than the competition’s smaller 30 tablet tub for £9 because it may in fact contain 500mg pills against the competitor’s 1000mg. It’s the daily dose cost you want to be comparing, and they don’t make that easy for you.
(2) On the label you may see words such as “concentrated”, “extract”, or “equivalent”, and lots of different numbers. This is because the manufacturer usually takes the basic dried plant ingredient (say, 1000mg of milk thistle) and concentrates it to make a swallowable pill. Thus a pill might contain 50mg of plant extract but advertise itself using the pre-extraction plant weight of 1000mg. However, once more things can get sneaky; one manufacturer’s label claims that their pills contain 4000mg of EXTRACT but only reveal via an asterisk and small print that it’s actually 4000mg of original plant equivalent. Those are very different things; at a 40:1 concentration ratio that’s actually just 100mg of extract. I don’t know how they get away with it. The honest way of putting it is “100mg of plant extract, equivalent to 4000mg of whole plant”.
(3) Concentration ratios vary; a 50:1 concentration is five times stronger than 10:1, so it’s that original plant equivalent weight which matters when comparing; one manufacturer’s 50mg of extract may contain less original plant than another’s 20mg. For this reason, in my value for money comparisons it’s the original weight which I use.
(4) Headline ingredients (eg milk thistle) are often combined with others (eg artichoke, dandelion), making direct comparisons harder.
(5) Right; with no further delay, on to...
THIS PRODUCT
Taurine is an amino acid naturally produced by the body from the food we eat, especially when it is under stress. It is not one of the 9 essential amino acids – without which we cannot survive – but it is found in differing concentrations throughout the body, notably in the retinas, and is therefore regarded as important. It may be helpful for people with depressed immune systems. It is naturally found in meat, fish and dairy, but not in vegetables; cats cannot survive without it and, unlike humans, cannot produce it themselves, therefore also cannot survive on a vegetarian diet. No particular human dosages have been indicated.
Almost all of the taurine supplements I have looked at here refer to dosages, not per tablet strength (see above). In the case of this product the advertised dose of 1000mg takes 2 x 500mg tablets to achieve; at 21p per tablet this will cost you 42p per day.
Based on a quick comparison of four other 1000mg offers on Amazon (some with 500mg pills, others with 1000mg) this is poor value for money, even if you add in the other ingredients; two of those others each come in at just 6p per day, which would save you ÂŁ131 per year.
So, based on price alone, I can’t recommend these.”
