Beetroot juice and endurance
A systematic review and meta-analysis found a small-to-moderate effect of dietary nitrate in time-to-exhaustion trials: effect size 0.33, confidence interval 0.15–0.50. The main dietary sources are beetroot and leafy greens. The effect is real but modest.
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- • McMahon et al., 2017, Sports Medicine (PMID 27600147)