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NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast

Where to Find Taurine and the Best Source

NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast

Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8951 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

I compare the cost, convenience, and safety of various plant, animal, and supplement sources of taurine.

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0:00.0

Foods that contain the highest levels of touring come from the sea, particularly seaweed

0:12.6

and shellfish.

0:14.1

Here it is graphically so you can see how shellfish compared to other meat.

0:18.2

The most concentrated source, though, is dried nory, the seaweed sheets used to make

0:23.1

sushi. Land plants, however, have negligible amounts. So a singular focus on increasing dietary

0:29.4

toriene risks driving poor nutritional choices because plant-rich diets are associated with

0:35.4

human health and longevity. I mean, energy drinks have Torin too, but slamming monster Red Bull Rockstar cocaine is

0:43.7

probably not the best option.

0:46.5

The best choice would probably be to eat a healthy plant-based diet with supplemental

0:52.0

Torin.

0:53.1

It's such a simple molecule. It can be inexpensively synthesized.

0:57.0

You can just get pure-tourine powder. Here's how it all breaks down. We can start with

1:03.3

concentration. Pure torine obviously has the most. Then dried nore. Then an average

1:09.0

of clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops, then the average

1:12.8

across nine energy drinks, then fin fish, including the highest yellow sea bream down to tuna,

1:19.6

one of the lowest, then an average of chicken, beef, and pork.

1:23.6

Nori is looking pretty good until you realize how light it is.

1:28.2

To get one gram of torin, you'd have to eat 10 servings a day, which is 40 sheets of

1:33.0

nori, which even if you could stomach it, would exceed your recommended iodine intake

1:38.5

for the day.

1:40.0

The easiest way to get a gram would be a quarter teaspoon of purerine powder.

1:44.6

Though one can of most energy drinks would do it, but then there's the issue of added sugars

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