Arugula, a leafy green salad vegetable, has a lot more nitrate than even beetroot — so much that it can help your body make nitric oxide (which is good for blood flow) without giving you too much of...

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Arugula, a leafy green salad vegetable, has a lot more nitrate than even beetroot — so much that it can help your body make nitric oxide (which is good for blood flow) without giving you too much of...

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Arugula (Eruca sativa) contains approximately 4,800 mg/kg of nitrate, which makes it one of the highest natural dietary sources of inorganic nitrate, surpassing beetroot and enabling effective nitric oxide bioactivation without a high oxalate burden.

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Study: A worldwide systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression of nitrate and nitrite in vegetables and fruits.

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