Talk:Taurine

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Taurine article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the subject of the article.

Add new text under old text.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Start a new topic

Article policies

Find medical sources: Source guidelines · PubMed · Cochrane · DOAJ · Gale · OpenMD · ScienceDirect · Springer · Trip · Wiley · TWL

Archives: 1: 3 months

Taurine was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 1, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
January 11, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

Chemicals Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Chemicals, a daughter project of WikiProject Chemistry, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of chemicals. To participate, help improve this article or visit the project page for details on the project.ChemicalsWikipedia:WikiProject ChemicalsTemplate:WikiProject Chemicalschemicals
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Dietary Supplements Low‑importance

	Taurine is part of WikiProject Dietary Supplements, a collaborative attempt at improving the coverage of topics related to dietary supplements. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page for more information.Dietary SupplementsWikipedia:WikiProject Dietary SupplementsTemplate:WikiProject Dietary SupplementsDietary supplement
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Medicine Low‑importance

	Medicine portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine, which recommends that medicine-related articles follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles and that biomedical information in any article use high-quality medical sources. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine.MedicineWikipedia:WikiProject MedicineTemplate:WikiProject Medicinemedicine
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Molecular Biology: MCB

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Molecular Biology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of molecular biology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Molecular BiologyWikipedia:WikiProject Molecular BiologyTemplate:WikiProject Molecular BiologyMolecular Biology
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Molecular and Cell Biology task force (assessed as High-importance).

Pharmacology Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Pharmacology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Pharmacology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PharmacologyWikipedia:WikiProject PharmacologyTemplate:WikiProject Pharmacologypharmacology
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Might be good to discuss ongoing research

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Seems some studies are being conducted which shows that it is correlated with blood cancer: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/a-downside-of-taurine-it-drives-leukemia-growth 2601:1C2:C181:FF20:E461:B3E0:BD0:CB24 (talk) 20:25, 18 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Drugs.com citation

Latest comment: 10 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion

I was reading the source listed for an Americans daily taurine intake, (https://www.drugs.com/npp/taurine.html) and I noticed that the source contradicts the statement after about taurine breaking down when heated. Wikipedias article says that taurine *is* broken down by cooking, the drugs.com page says it is not. I personally suggest using the source that the drugs.com page cites directly (Caine JJ, Geracioti TD. Taurine, energy drinks, and neuroendocrine effects. Cleve Clin J Med.) for an Americans intake rather than an inbetween page that might contain misleading information.

I would just edit it, but I dont want to trample on procedure for these things, and maybe theres a reason to use the current citation. VioletRM (talk) 22:58, 24 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

I don't see any discussion in the article about taurine being "broken down by cooking".

The PubChem article has numerous links to heating and water solubility that might provide answers to your question about how much taurine remains after cooking. As it's not a protein with chemical bonds that would be susceptible to heat, there doesn't seem to be specific literature on its actual fate when heated, except perhaps for this 2003 animal feed study (which addressed taurine loss in water during cooking), i.e., because taurine is highly water soluble, it's likely that taurine in food is leached from the source in its water during cooking. Zefr (talk) 01:08, 25 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

In the drugs.com article, under subtitle 'Source', "It does not appear to be destroyed through cooking" VioletRM (talk) 16:52, 28 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

A page that knows where it met you.

Might be good to discuss ongoing research

Drugs.com citation