{"id":77500,"date":"2025-07-16T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77500"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:27:06","slug":"what-is-taurine-the-energy-drink-ingredient-that-might-do-more-harm-than-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/16\/what-is-taurine-the-energy-drink-ingredient-that-might-do-more-harm-than-good\/","title":{"rendered":"What is taurine? The energy drink ingredient that might do more harm than good"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1IHzzl.img?w=534&amp;h=401&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Many energy drinks contain some combination of three familiar stimulants: caffeine, guarana and taurine (Getty Images\/iStock)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/energy-drinks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Energy drinks<\/a> are big business. Marketed as quick fixes for fatigue and performance dips, energy drinks are especially popular among young people, athletes, sports enthusiasts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/what-is-taurine-the-energy-drink-ingredient-that-might-do-more-harm-than-good\/ar-AA1IHxC8?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=783d17b8197e4137827210957ea21130&amp;ei=41\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Energy drinks are big business. Marketed as quick fixes for fatigue and performance dips, energy drinks are especially popular among young people,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food-and-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/energy-drink.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77501,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77500\/revisions\/77501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}