Buy the Beetroot, Not the Marketing

Beetroot powder should be relatively easy to compare.

Start with the ingredient itself.

If you’re buying a beetroot powder supplement, check whether you’re getting straightforward beetroot powder or a flavoured blend containing sweeteners and other ingredients.

Then look at processing and quality control.

Propel Health uses an air-dried beetroot powder and independently tests products as part of its quality program, including screening for contaminants such as glyphosate, pesticides, mould and E. coli.

There is also a substantial Australian retail network behind the brand, with Propel Health products distributed through more than 550 pharmacies and health food stores.

Most importantly, understand why you’re buying it.

For an athlete, it may be the research around dietary nitrate, nitric oxide and exercise performance.

For someone interested in cardiovascular health, it may be healthy circulation.

For men, that circulation conversation can have relevance beyond the gym.

For someone focused on nutrition and skin, it provides another colourful, antioxidant-containing plant food.

One vegetable. Several genuinely interesting applications. No miracle claims required.