Beetroot and Reduced Blood Cholesterol

• The effect of dietary nitrate on weight management: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2026-04-28
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 199
  • Frontiers in public health 14
  • • Wenjun Cai
    • Peng Wei
    • Fan Yang
    • Lin Shu
    • Yongyao Du
    • Huirong Feng
    • Jiaojiao Shi
    • Chao Kang
    • Xiaoli Peng

  • PubMed: 42130877
  • DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1798811

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Blood Cholesterol

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  dietary nitrate supplementation was associated with significant reductions in total cholesterol (TC, 95% CI: -1.11 to -0.06; SMD = -0.59, p = 0.03; I2 = 50%)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes