Ha, good point PG. According to FEDIAF and their nutritional guidelines for wet and dry cat food, 100g dry matter dry food should contain 0.10g, while 100g dry matter of wet food should contain 0.20g. For wet kitten food, it should be slightly higher with 0.25g/100g.

However, the suggested feeding rec of felini complete is per cat and they suggest feeding between 200mg and 500mg to top up the taurine content of the food.

Does that help?

Thank you so much for the info on powderd taurine. It's on my to-do list tomorrow.
I've tried feeding Buddy raw beef, tilapia (fish), liver and heart - he won't touch it. He started well on Natures Menu, With RC kitten kibble, progressed to Applaws & their kibble and is now on a mix of Orijen & Applaws kibble and human chicken, turkey and
an occasional mouthful of John West kipper pate it had 0.6g, which I thought permissable as he'll get it once in a blue moon. Any bright, better ideas please ?

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Dulally, as it is not really about taurine and to keep the sticky relatively on topic, could you create a new thread in health and nutrition with the above post re dietary advice? Thank you!

Can you bake taurine into home made cat biscuits or is it better to mix it into their raw food?

I feed a mostly wet diet (Mac's, Petnatur, Grau) and would like to boost the taurine levels with some dried chicken hearts. It reckons there's about 5000mg/kg of taurine - does that sound about right? If so, how many grams of chicken hearts per day or week?

I have tried taurine powder and it does have a very slight tang to it.

Plus after drinking it, it makes my belly slightly quesy.

Does anyone know how much Taurine is in Hilife?

I know it says complete but doesn't list it on all the foods, only on some of them

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You might be best off getting in touch with Hilife to see what they say. To complicate matters, taurine is, I believe, often only listed in the added amount; not in how much the food contains overall (naturally and added combined).

We have been giving our cats vitamins since they were kittens, due to the fact that it has taurine and we wanted to make sure that they were getting enough of this essential vitamin. I have read about the effects of a deficit in taurine, and our veterinarian, in fact three different ones told us that there isn't a negative effect if they get too much taurine. We give them 1/2 teaspoon Excel Kittyvite Vitamine Paste, malt flavor daily. My husband and I are healthy and we still take a daily vitamin just to ensure we are getting all the vitamins we need, so why shouldn't our cats also get a daily vitamin to ensure that their needs are also being met.

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