Introduction

I was reading through a website this morning trying to find something innovative for my blog this morning just as I was doing that. Somebody next to me had to say stop look at that beetroot. It’s a very delicious fruit so I decided to read about it and it was interesting.

The beetroot fruit

The beetroot fruit which is very much known as beet are from the same family as sugar beets. Sugar beets are white in color usually used for extracting sugar and sweetening manufactured food. But sugar can’t be extracted from colored beets.

beetroot fruit

Nutritional break down of beets

According to sources, a cup of beets contains
13 grams of carbohydrate,
*9 grams of sugar,
2 grams of protein,

Beetroot, depending on the brand could provide more.

As important and sweet as the beetroot is it provides several vitamins the body needs daily.
Health benefits of beetroot a life saver for heart failure patients.
Studies have indicated that consumption of beetroot decreases mortality and increases the health benefits.

Beetroot improves heart health and blood pressure.

Dementia recent study also shows that the supplements help to improve the brain oxygenation which helps the patients.

Digestion due to its high fibre content, beetroot helps to improve digestion in humans.

It also helps to increase exercise in humans.

Recent studies have shown that beetroot juice supplements may help enhance exercise capacity in heart failure patients.
The study examined the impact of dietary nitrate in beetroot juice supplement on the exercise capacity of eight different heart failure patients with reduced ejection fracture this condition means that these patients can’t get enough contraction and therefore oxygen-rich blood to the body.

These researchers found that the beetroot supplement, gave significant increase in their exercise duration, peak power a, d peak oxygen while exercising.
Another significant or important aspect of the study showed that there are no side effects from dietary nitrate.

For further reading

• medical news today
• fruit supplement
• science daily
  Andrew R. Coggan, Seth R. Broadstreet, Kiran Mahmood, Deana Mikhalkova, Michael Madigan, Indra Bole, Soo Park, Joshua L. Leibowitz, Ana Kadkhodayan, Deepak P. Thomas, Dakkota Thies, Linda R. Peterson. Dietary Nitrate Increases VO 2 peak and Performance but Does Not Alter Ventilation or Efficiency in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 2018; 24 (2): 65 DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2017.09.004