taurine

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If you think of Red Bull, with its glorified but dubious ingredient, taurine, as in some ways emblematic of the housing boom, then here, perhaps, was something grounding to take a day trader's eye off the relentlessly correcting ticker.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a bull.
  2. noun A colorless crystalline substance, C2H7NO3S, formed by the hydrolysis of taurocholic acid and found in the fluids of the muscles and lungs of many animals.

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  • She recommends a diet that's high in proteins -- particularly those with amino acids, such as taurine, arginine and carnitine -- and relatively low in carbohydrates.
  • In relation to EFSA's guidelines on maximum consumption levels of 1.4 cans of beverages containing ingredients such as taurine a day, two global energy drink suppliers claimed that they already mirrored these concerns. —  BeverageDaily RSS
  • Jamey Kirby, a spokesperson for Redux Beverages, which manufactures energy drinks such as the Cocaine brand in European and US markets, said that the company did not recommend its products to children and pregnant women in regards to use of taurine and its caffeine content. —  BeverageDaily RSS
  • Energy drinks, marketed to enhance brain function and stamina, usually contain caffeine, taurine, sugars, vitamins, and other nutritional supplements, the investigators point out.
  • France is the smallest market largely due to the fact Red Bull has had limited distribution due one of its principle ingredients, taurine, being banned by French authorities. —  NutraIngredients RSS
 

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  1. Latin taurīnus, from taurus, bull; see tauro- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Greek tauros, bull (from its having been obtained first from ox bile); see tauro- in Indo-European roots + -ine2.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese Italian taurino, from Latin taurinus, of or pertaining to a bull or ox, from taurus, bull: see Taurus.
 

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