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Food sources of nitrates and nitrites: the physiologic context for potential health benefits
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The presence of nitrates and nitrites in food is associated with an increased risk of gastrointestinal cancer and, in infants, methemoglobinemia. Despite the physiologic roles for nitrate and nitrite in vascular and immune function, consideration of food sources of nitrates and nitrites as healthful dietary components has received little attention. Approximately 80% of dietary nitrates are derived from vegetable consumption; sources of nitrites include vegetables, fruit, and processed meats. Nitrites are produced endogenously through the oxidation of nitric oxide and through a reduction of nitrate by commensal bacteria in the mouth and gastrointestinal tract. As such, the dietary provision of nitrates and nitrites from vegetables and fruit may contribute to the blood pressure-lowering effects of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet. We quantified nitrate and nitrite concentrations by HPLC in a convenience sample of foods. Incorporating these values into 2 hypothetical dietary patterns that emphasize high-nitrate or low-nitrate vegetable and fruit choices based on the DASH diet, we found that nitrate concentrations in these 2 patterns vary from 174 to 1222 mg. The hypothetical high-nitrate DASH diet pattern exceeds the World Health Organization's Acceptable Daily Intake for nitrate by 550% for a 60-kg adult. These data call into question the rationale for recommendations to limit nitrate and nitrite consumption from plant foods; a comprehensive reevaluation of the health effects of food sources of nitrates and nitrites is appropriate. The strength of the evidence linking the consumption of nitrate- and nitrite-containing plant foods to beneficial health effects supports the consideration of these compounds as nutrients.
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“These dosing amounts appear to be well tolerated when consumed as both supplemental [587] and supplemental sources [588] without significant alterations in hemodynamics or clinical boundaries of hepatorenal and muscle enzyme status [478, 589].”
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“possibly due to greater responsiveness resulting from baseline NO deficiency [112,155,245].”
From Dietary Nitrate-Rich Vegetables as Natural Modulators of Health: Mechanisms and Benefits in Ageing Populations (2026) · cites this paper as [112]
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“clinical studies suggest that older individuals may experience substantial improvements in blood pressure and endothelial function after consuming nitrates”
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“recent research has suggested that the beneficial effects of the DASH diet on BP are related to the high inorganic nitrate content of some of the food products included in the DASH dietary plan (e.g., green leafy and root vegetables) (9).”
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“Inorganic nitrate is present in numerous foodstuffs and is abundant in green leafy vegetables and beetroot.”
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“In addition to its generation by means of the NOS system, body stores of nitrate and nitrite may also be increased exogenously through the diet, particularly through the consumption of green leafy vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, rocket, celery, cress, and beetroot”
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“Green leafy vegetables as well as root vegetables such as beets are known to contain the highest amounts of inorganic nitrate[36,161,370].”
From Enterosalivary nitrate metabolism and the microbiome: Intersection of microbial metabolism, nitric oxide and diet in cardiac and pulmonary vascular health (2017) · cites this paper as [161]
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“Unsurprisingly, estimates of average daily nitrate consumption in the U.S. and Europe, regions with high rates of CVD and vascular disease, reach only 40–100mg and 30–180mg, respectively[157,161,372].”
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“with a typical DASH-compliant diet estimated to contain a range of nitrate from 174–1222mg/day[161].”
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“Recently accumulated evidence has demonstrated that dietary intake of fruits and vegetables rich in nitrate/nitrite is an inexpensive and easily-practicable way to prevent insulin resistance and vascular endothelial dysfunction by increasing the NO availability”
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“according to a report by Hord [28], in which the daily nitrate and nitrite intakes were calculated based on the variations using the vegetable and fruit components of the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) dietary pattern [46], the level easily exceeds 1,200 mg/day nitrate.”
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“dietary nitrate/nitrite improves the features of lifestyle-related diseases by enhancing NO availability, and thus provides potential options for prevention and therapy for these patients [28].”
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“This is more than five-fold higher than the WHO’s ADI of 3.7 mg nitrate/kg body weight/day, and more than two-fold the US Environmental Protection Agency’s level of 7.0 mg nitrate/kg body weight/day for a 60 kg individual [28].”
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“Although it may be difficult to isolate the specific effects of these dietary nutrients, as discussed above, the nitrate and nitrite derived from vegetables and fruits are reduced to NO, which is followed by the formation of S-nitrosothiols [123], rather than the formation of nitrosamines especially in the presence of reducing agents such as vitamin C and E in the stomach [28,124].”
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“Webb et al. (81) showed that beetroot juice (500 ml; 23 mmol nitrate) completely reduced endothelial dysfunction induced by ischaemicreperfusion injury to the forearm and preserved the FMD response, whereas the FMD response was reduced by 60 % in the control subjects.”
From The effects of dietary nitrate on blood pressure and endothelial function: a review of human intervention studies (2013) · cites this paper as [81]
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“The peak effect in BP occurred at 3 h after ingestion and in association with an increase in plasma nitrite concentration, supporting the hypothesis that the delayed appearance of nitrite is due to the sequential bioconversion of nitrate to nitrite and further to NO in vivo.”
From The effects of dietary nitrate on blood pressure and endothelial function: a review of human intervention studies (2013) · cites this paper as [81]
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“In most of the studies examined, peak reduction in BP compared with baseline occurred at 2-3 h after the consumption of dietary nitrate, which is the same time at which peak plasma nitrite concentrations have been observed (81,82,86,87,89,92) ,”
From The effects of dietary nitrate on blood pressure and endothelial function: a review of human intervention studies (2013) · cites this paper as [81]
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“In 2008, Webb et al. (81) showed that ingestion of a single dose of beetroot juice (500 ml; 23 mmol nitrate) by fourteen healthy subjects reduced systolic BP (SBP) and DBP by 10 and 8 mmHg, respectively.”
From The effects of dietary nitrate on blood pressure and endothelial function: a review of human intervention studies (2013) · cites this paper as [81]
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“A few studies have found inhibitory effects of dietary nitrate on platelet aggregation, suggesting that inhibition of abnormal platelet aggregation may be partly responsible for the cardiovascular benefits of nitrate supplementation.”
From The effects of dietary nitrate on blood pressure and endothelial function: a review of human intervention studies (2013) · cites this paper as [81]
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“In a study by Webb et al. (81) supplementation of healthy individuals with beetroot juice (550 ml; 23 mmol nitrate) also had an inhibitory effect on ex vivo platelet aggregation in response to collagen and adenosine diphosphate.”
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“A recent systematic review found the pooled effect for inorganic nitrate and beetroot juice supplementation to be a significant reduction of SBP of ~4-5 mmHg (6) .”
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“However, most of the study populations have consisted of healthy, young men and may not be representative of the whole population (6) .”
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“Intake of nitrite from environmental sources also occurs through contaminated ground water, commonly due to fertilizers, livestock and human excreta, which pose a potential hazard to health [59, 65].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hord, N. G., Tang, Y., & Bryan, N. S.
- Affiliations
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bryan, Nathan S
- Venue
- The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-07
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-10
- ISSN
- 0002-9165 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2114325309
- Cited by
- 1,069
- References
- 105
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Biochemistry (medical) › Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Keywords
- dietary nitrate, dietary nitrite, vegetable consumption, fruit consumption, processed meat, DASH diet, blood pressure reduction, nitric oxide, commensal bacteria, methemoglobinemia, gastrointestinal cancer risk, acceptable daily intake, dietary habits
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Diet, Food Analysis, Food Handling, Fruit, Health, Humans, Meat, Nitrates, Nitric Oxide, Nitrites, Vegetables
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