If you buy the same brand of beetroot juice twice, the amount of nitrate can be wildly different between bottles—even if they look identical—because the company isn’t making it the same way every...

From: What's in Your Beet Juice? Nitrate and Nitrite Content of Beet Juice Products Marketed to Athletes.

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If you buy the same brand of beetroot juice twice, the amount of nitrate can be wildly different between bottles—even if they look identical—because the company isn’t making it the same way every...

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The nitrate content in beetroot juice varies significantly across different production batches of the same product, with an average coefficient of variation of 30% ± 26% (ranging from 2% to 83%), indicating inconsistent manufacturing practices among brands.

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Study: What's in Your Beet Juice? Nitrate and Nitrite Content of Beet Juice Products Marketed to Athletes.

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