In recent years, beetroot (Beta vulgaris L.) has become popular as a potential “functional food”.
Antioxidant, cognitive function improvement.
Nitrate‐rich Pre workout drink
Packed with essential nutrients, beetroots are a great source of fiber, folate (vitamin B9), manganese, potassium, iron, and vitamin C.
- Betalains (mainly betanin) are the effective antioxidant extracted from beetroot, might reduce the risk of some cancers, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, liver and kidney damage.They have been proven to eliminate oxidative and nitrative stress by scavenging DPPH, preventing DNA damage, and reducing LDL.
Many consumers tend to take fresh beetroot juice to supplement nitrate.
- The intake of nitrate‐rich beetroot could enhance athletic performance and reduce muscle soreness due to certain types of exercise.
- Athletes use nutritional supplementation to enhance the effects of training and achieve improvements in their performance. Beetroot juice increases levels of nitric oxide (NO), which serves multiple functions (related to increased blood flow, gas exchange, mitochondrial biogenesis and efficiency, and strengthening of muscle contraction).
- These biomarker improvements indicate that supplementation with beetroot juice could have ergogenic effects on cardiorespiratory endurance that would benefit athletic performance.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5295087/#:~:text=Beetroot%20juice%20increases%20levels%20of,and%20strengthening%20of%20muscle%20contraction.
- The deficiency of nitric oxide was associated with cognition impairment. Beetroot has received increasing attention as a nitric oxide generator. In the research of healthy adults, the altered parameters of prefrontal cortex cerebral blood flow (CBF) induced by nitrate-containing beetroot were related to the cognitive function improvement.
- Similarly, it has been found in the elderly that the supplementation of high nitrate in beetroot could increase regional CBF and thus enhance cognition