Grapefruit and Reduced Systolic Blood Pressure

• Grapefruit juice enhances the systolic blood pressure-lowering effects of dietary nitrate-containing beetroot juice.

  • 2020-07-09
  • RCT
  • British journal of clinical pharmacology 87(2)
  • • Kevin O'Gallagher
    • Sarah Borg Cardona
    • Callum Hill
    • Ali Al-Saedi
    • Fawzia Shahed
    • Christopher N Floyd
    • Karen McNeill
    • Charlotte E Mills
    • Andrew J Webb

  • PubMed: 32520418
  • DOI: 10.1111/bcp.14420

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Systolic Blood Pressure

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  The addition of grapefruit juice to active beetroot juice lowered systolic BP (SBP): Active Beet+GFJ vs Active Beet+H2O (P = .02)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  250 mL