Beetroot and ginger juice: what's actually in it

A beetroot-and-ginger juice is exactly what it sounds like: two root vegetables blended or juiced together, usually beet for body and sweetness, ginger for heat and bite. It's a popular pairing in cold-pressed juice recipes, but no trial has tested that specific combination — beetroot and ginger each carry their own separate research, at their own doses and forms.

What each root actually brings

Beetroot (Beta vulgaris) is a source of folate, manganese, potassium, and dietary nitrate, a compound whose research is mostly about concentrated juice at a measured nitrate dose (see beetroot benefits: what the research does and doesn't show). Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a separate plant entirely, valued for gingerols and other pungent compounds, with its own body of human trials at doses ranging from 500 mg to 4 grams a day depending on what was studied — see ginger benefits: what the research does and doesn't show. The two aren't chemically related, and nothing in either ingredient's research involved the other.

Why people pair them

The combination is a kitchen and flavor choice more than a documented health strategy. Ginger's sharpness cuts beetroot's earthy sweetness, which is likely why the pairing shows up so often in juice bars and recipes — root vegetables that juice well together and balance each other's taste. That's a real, useful reason to combine them; it isn't evidence that the mixture does more than either ingredient does on its own.

No trial has tested the combination

A 2025 umbrella review pooling 15 meta-analyses on beetroot juice and physical performance found effects ranging from negligible to small, at nitrate doses of 515-1,017 mg a day — but every trial in it tested beetroot juice alone, not beetroot plus ginger. A separate 2023 lab analysis of 50 commercial beetroot supplements found nitrate content varies widely by product, which is one more reason a home-blended juice's actual nitrate content is unknown without lab testing. We haven't found a published trial adding ginger to a beetroot intervention and measuring whether it changes the result one way or the other. Combining two ingredients that each have some evidence on their own doesn't mean the mixture has been tested — it hasn't.

If you're taking Electric Tiger Beetroot

Electric Tiger Beetroot is 1300 mg of whole organic beetroot powder in a capsule, taken once a day — it doesn't contain ginger, and it isn't a juice. If you're making a beetroot-and-ginger juice at home, that's a different product from our capsule in form, and the two aren't interchangeable: a home juice blend's nitrate and gingerol content will vary batch to batch, while our capsule states a plain 1300 mg beetroot amount and nothing else.

Questions people ask

Is beetroot and ginger juice good together?

As a flavor combination, yes — that's largely why the pairing is popular. As a documented health benefit beyond what either ingredient's own research shows separately, no trial has tested the combination, so there's nothing specific to report about the mixture itself.

How much beetroot and ginger juice should I drink?

There's no established dose for the combination, since it hasn't been studied as one. Beetroot's own research doses to a specific nitrate amount in juice (515-1,017 mg a day in the trials reviewed above), and ginger's trials have used 500 mg to 4 grams a day depending on the outcome measured — see how much ginger should you take a day for that ingredient's own numbers.

Does adding ginger make beetroot juice work better?

We haven't found research testing that question. Ginger's own trials and beetroot's own trials measure different things in different populations, and none of them combined the two ingredients.

Related reading: beetroot benefits: what the research does and doesn't show, how much beetroot should you take a day, what is ginger, and ginger benefits: what the research does and doesn't show.