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Taurine concentrations in the diet, plasma, urine and breast milk of vegans compared with omnivores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Surinder K. Rana  and
T. A. B. Sanders
Surinder K. Rana
Affiliation:
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, King's College London (KQC), University of London, Campden Hill Road, London W8 7AH
T. A. B. Sanders
Affiliation:
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, King's College London (KQC), University of London, Campden Hill Road, London W8 7AH
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1. The concentration of taurine in the diets, plasma, urine and breast milk were measured in vegans and age- and sex-matched omnivore controls. Plasma and urinary amino acid concentrations were also determined

2. Taurine was absent from the vegan diet and occurred in variable amounts in the diets of the omnivores. Urinary taurine levels were less than half those of the omnivores but plasma and breast-milk levels were only slightly lower.

3. Dietary energy intakes were similar in the vegans and omnivores, but protein intakes tended to be lower in the vegans.

Type
Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , July 1986 , pp. 17 - 27
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1986

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