Drinking beetroot juice (about 1 cup) lowers blood pressure, with the biggest drop being about 5 mm Hg, and it works similarly to nitrate supplements.

Researchers gave women a drink with 400 mg of nitrate (from beetroot juice) to see how it affected their blood pressure and nitrate/nitrite levels.

Drinking beetroot juice before going into a cool room stops your blood pressure from going up as much as it normally would when you're cold.

Drinking beetroot juice in a warm room doesn't make your blood pressure go down compared to drinking a placebo in the same warm room.

Treating gum disease helps people with gum problems get the blood pressure-lowering benefits from beetroot juice.

When healthy young adults drank beetroot juice with vitamin C, their daily systolic blood pressure went down a bit compared to before they started the treatment.