When you're in a cool room, your saliva has more nitrite after drinking beetroot juice than when you're in a warm room.

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Nitrate ingestion blunts the increase in blood pressure during cool air exposure: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, crossover trial

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2024 Jun 1

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No contradicting evidence found

When you're in a cool room, you produce more saliva than when you're in a warm room, whether or not you drink beetroot juice.

87%

When you drink beetroot juice in a cool room, your body produces more nitrite in your blood than when you drink it in a warm room.

82%

When you're in a cool room, you produce more saliva than when you're in a warm room.

75%

Whether you drink beetroot juice or not, your skin temperature goes down about the same amount when you're in a cool room.

73%