date:Jun 17, 2013
the other beverage and the trial was repeated.
As expected, the researchers found that cyclists performed better following the nitrate-rich beet juice treatment in both time and power output.
In the second study, cyclists drank the beet juice just 2.5 hours prior to performing the cycling trial, as in the 2011 study. But this time, no difference was seen in performance between the nitrate-rich and nitrate-depleted groups. Further research will be needed to explain this discrepancy, said study