Would like to try a beet-root loading protocol prior to a tune-up race, but would rather use actual beets versus the juice. I found a few tables/publications (http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/90/1/1/T3.expansion.html) outlining nitrate content in actual beets. My question is around canned beets; I’ve heard they loose lots of their nitrates during the processing/canning. Can anyone confirm this? Assuming true nitrate content, they are significantly less expensive (at about 50 cents a dose) than fresh beets (would be like $6 a dose) as well as the juice (about $3.50 a dose). If not canned beets, what about frozen beets? Do they go through the same processing approach?
Just go to your local Vitamin Shoppe and pick up a container of: ON Nutrition “Platinum Pre” It has Beet Juice Powder and it will put lead in your pencil Big Time.
Just go to your local Vitamin Shoppe and pick up a container of: ON Nutrition “Platinum Pre” It has Beet Juice Powder and it will put lead in your pencil Big Time.
Interesting nutritional metaphor.
Just eat beets.
Just eat beets.
And for the bonus you get to pee red!
Just eat beets.
And for the bonus you get to pee red!
That always surprises me, then I remember I ate beets.
I love beets!
Put 'em in a Pirex dish, cover and roast 'em in the oven until they’re soft enough to eat. Tastes like the earth.
Nitrates? Who f—ing cares?
I just heard on a recent podcast that radishes have a higher concentration than beets, I have always like radishes washed with a little salt and pepper, so maybe that could be an option for you. No mess or red pee, unless your into that stuff.
For a non beet juice source: Cellucor NO3 Chrome
Serving Size 3 Capsules
Servings Per Container 30Amount Per Serving**% DV****L-Arginine Nitrate **1250.00 mg**Extreme Vascularity Complex (L-Citrulline Malate Grape Seed extract (95% OPC) Pycnogenol®) **655.00 mg**L-Norvaline **100.00 mg**Calcium Ascorbate **100.00 mg10% Vitamin C 83.00 mg138% Calcium 10.00 mg 1%
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I thought I’d go for the beet juicing/nitrate benefit at IMAZ in 2012. I drank about 750mL of Beet Juice during breakfast at 4:30am and had to pull over on the side of the road on the way to the race start… Lost my breakfast and beet juice on side of highway… Gross… Bonk. Bonk. Bonk…
…and I am stupid enough to want to try it again
You should try powder. Do it for a hard training effort before you chug beets race morning.
Also, I get a noticeable effect only if I drink beet juice for 2-3 days before the effort. I don’t think your body will take up all those nitrates immediately. I think you just have to make it readily available over a few days.
I thought I’d go for the beet juicing/nitrate benefit at IMAZ in 2012. I drank about 750mL of Beet Juice during breakfast at 4:30am and had to pull over on the side of the road on the way to the race start… Lost my breakfast and beet juice on side of highway… Gross… Bonk. Bonk. Bonk…
…and I am stupid enough to want to try it again
I just eat beets. Whether or not I’m training for this or that or nothing. I just eat beets.
Don’t eat beets or radishes. They are terrible for you. Especially if you are male and in the 40-44 age group. Could kill you instantly. Oh, pink font.
For those that want to eat beets for performance enhancement potential, here is the scoop. I actually tweeted out to Andrew Jones (the scientist behind the foundational studies connecting nitrates to enhanced performance in endurance sports) and he was super responsive. Basically, it sounds like boiling beets can leech them of their nitrates, so canned beets won’t have the same content as listed in various published tables. Seems like the surest ways to lock in nitrate content is via the beetroot juice or fresh beets and baking them. Not inexpensive, but not really surprising…closer to earth = better. I think I am going to try the 7-day juice protocol before a tune-up race. Excited to see how it goes…just got to remember no beet juice before Masters…that could get weird.