What is Beetroot?
Beetroot, also know as beta vulgaris is a root vegetable. It is red in colour and packed with essential nutrients. It can be consumed raw, as a juice, baked, boiled or in our case as a powdered extract.
It contains a number of antioxidant substances such as flavonoids, anthocyanins and betaine but the main compound that provides its benefits within the space of physical performance is that it contains high levels of inorganic nitrate (NO3). This can support nitric oxide (NO) concentrations which can help support nutrients supply to the muscles for exercise.
What is Beetroot 20:1 extract and its nitrate content?
Our extract is a 20:1 extract which means to make 1g of the extract 20g of raw beetroot powder was used. Beetroot contains 1.5% of nitrates per gram of raw material and so per serving our beetroot extract wil provide 300mg of nitrates which is regarded as an effective ergogenic dose.
Beetroot provides a source of bioavailable dietary inorganic nitrate.
Once this is ingested and absorbed it is converted to nitrite (NO2) and through nitrate reductase it is then further broken down to nitric oxide.
Studies on beetroot
[1]https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-017-0204-9
[2]https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/fulltext/2020/04000/effect_of_acute_beetroot_juice_supplementation_on.5.aspx
[3]https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/6/2/605
[4]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-1716.2007.01713.x
[5]https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=5971658fceb41daedc3f27d2a58503bda0d031e3
[6]https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00722.2009?rss=1&ssource=mfr
[7]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1089860315002190
[8]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00421-013-2589-8
[9]https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-017-0204-9
[10]https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/9/12/1360
[11]https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/apnm-2018-0050