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Beet juice helps your blood vessels relax

Original Title

Plasma nitrate, dietary nitrate, blood pressure, and vascular health biomarkers: a GRADE-Assessed systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

doi:10.1186/s12937-025-01114-8
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Moderate Quality

Methodology score · 68/100

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What’s the bottom line?

Eating foods rich in nitrate, like beetroot, helps your body make a gas that opens up blood vessels, lowering blood pressure and making your heart work easier.

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Authors

Norouzzadeh M, Hasan Rashedi M, Ghaemi S, Saber N, Mirdar Harijani A, Habibi H, Mostafavi S, Sarv F, Farhadnejad H, Teymoori F, Khaleghian M, Mirmiran P