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.

Drinking a glass of beetroot juice every day for a month can lower your blood pressure in different settings—like at home, at the doctor’s office, and even when you’re wearing a monitor all day—without your body getting used to it and losing the effect.

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 every day with at least 397 mg of nitrate can lower high blood pressure as much as common blood pressure pills do.

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.

If older adults with high blood pressure drink beetroot juice every day for a month, their body shows more of certain chemicals in their blood and saliva that help relax blood vessels — which means their body is using a natural pathway to make nitric oxide.