$10.64 $0.10 per serving
Product analysis
Taurine 500 mg offers an affordable, simple option with some support for blood-vessel function in people with elevated blood pressure. Broader benefits for everyday fitness and healthy aging remain uncertain.
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Nutrient Quality20
Taurine quality cannot be confidently compared because its form is unspecified. The stated amount alone does not establish the quality of the preparation.
Ingredient Transparency63
The taurine amount is clear, making serving comparison straightforward. Its form is unspecified, leaving less detail for comparing preparations.
Value For Money80
Taurine offers good value for the amount supplied. It is a cost-conscious option if its limited, specific evidence fits your needs.
Customer Satisfaction85
Customer ratings are very favorable across more than a thousand reviews. That provides useful satisfaction feedback without proving health benefits.
Product Focus67
One ingredient keeps the formula straightforward across its intended uses. The clearest supporting evidence concerns blood-vessel function in selected adults, while broader benefits are less certain.
- Format
Capsule - Container
- 100 Capsule(s)
- Per serving
- $0.10
- Also available
Taurine 500 mg$21.07- Customer rating
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Goals
Impact
Moderate effect
Taurine · 500 mg
Impact
High effect
Taurine · 500 mg
Impact
High effect
Taurine · 500 mg
Ingredients
| Ingredient | Amount per serving | Score |
|---|---|---|
Taurine | 500 mg |
Taurine · 500 mg OverallScore73
The serving provides 500 mg of taurine at a low cost per gram. That amount is described for general health maintenance. The taurine source is unclear.
How this ingredient is rated
Active Ingredient Quality & Bioavailability72
The taurine is described as L-Taurine or free-form, with no purity grade specified. The taurine source and manufacturing origin are unclear. No artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners or flagged flow agents are identified in the available ingredient information.
Chemical Form and Purity
The taurine is described as L-Taurine or free-form, with no purity grade specified.
Sourcing and Branded Ingredients
The taurine source and manufacturing origin are unclear.
Formulation Cleanliness
No artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners or flagged flow agents are identified in the available ingredient information.
Dose, Safety & Label Transparency71
500 mg of taurine per serving is an amount described for general health maintenance. No quality certification or testing claim is available.
Taurine Dosage Potency
500 mg of taurine per serving is an amount described for general health maintenance.
Dose Disclosure
The amount is stated as 500 mg per serving.
Quality Assurance and Testing
No quality certification or testing claim is available.
Value80
The cost per gram of taurine is low.
Price per Gram of Taurine
The cost per gram of taurine is low.
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- Taurine Supplementation Lowers Blood Pressure and Improves Vascular Function in Prehypertension: Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study.
- Taurine ameliorates blood pressure and vascular function in patients with type 2 diabetes: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
- Taurine reduces the risk for metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
- Effects of Oral Taurine Supplementation on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Meta-analysis and Systematic Review of Randomized Clinical Trials.
- The effects of taurine supplementation on glycemic control and serum lipid profile in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
- Taurine supplementation enhances anaerobic power in elite speed skaters: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover study.
- The effect of acute taurine ingestion on 3-km running performance in trained middle-distance runners.
- Effects of different doses of taurine supplementation on repeated-sprint performance after exhaustive exercise in a high temperature and humidity environment.
- Oral taurine improves critical power and severe-intensity exercise tolerance.
- Acute taurine supplementation enhances thermoregulation and endurance cycling performance in the heat.
- Oxidative stress and inflammation in obesity after taurine supplementation: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
- Effect of taurine supplementation on preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia in pediatrics under mechanical ventilation, a randomized controlled double-blind clinical trial.
- Effect of taurine in muscle damage markers and inflammatory cytokines in running exercise.
- Exercise and taurine in inflammation, cognition, and peripheral markers of blood-brain barrier integrity in older women.
- Taurine supplementation has anti-atherogenic and anti-inflammatory effects before and after incremental exercise in heart failure.
- Dietary amino acid taurine ameliorates liver injury in chronic hepatitis patients.
- Taurine status and response to intravenous taurine supplementation in adults with short-bowel syndrome undergoing long-term parenteral nutrition: a pilot study.
- Taurine supplementation reduces myeloperoxidase and matrix-metalloproteinase-9 levels and improves the effects of exercise in cognition and physical fitness in older women.
- Taurine as a possible antiaging therapy: A controlled clinical trial on taurine antioxidant activity in women ages 55 to 70.
- Association of taurine intake with changes in physical fitness among community-dwelling middle-aged and older Japanese adults: an 8-year longitudinal study.