Taurine is an essential nutrient for cats which the cats organism on its own cant generate sufficiently felini taurine should be fed as a supplement to your kittys daily meals to ensure her daily taurine needs are covered taurine is an amino acid long term deficiency in essential amino acids can harm your cats metabolism and lead to skin and coat problems the taurine content included in cat food is often lower than the cats daily requirement which particularly leads to longer preservat