Beetroot and Turmeric: What Each One Actually Brings

Beetroot-ginger-turmeric juice is a popular wellness blend, but we haven't found a trial that tested beetroot and turmeric together — each ingredient's research exists on its own. Beetroot's is mostly about dietary nitrate; turmeric's active compound, curcumin, is well documented to absorb poorly by itself, which is a separate and better-established finding than anything about combining the two.

The beetroot-ginger-turmeric juice trend

Beetroot, ginger and turmeric show up together in juices and smoothies mainly for flavor and as part of a general wellness routine, not because a specific trial tested that three-ingredient combination. Each has its own separate research base, and blending them in a glass doesn't combine or multiply what any one of them has been shown to do on its own.

What turmeric brings to the blend

Turmeric's most-studied component is curcumin, and the best-established finding about curcumin isn't a health outcome — it's that curcumin absorbs poorly when taken by mouth. A widely cited 2007 review found that curcumin is safe even at high doses in human trials, but poor absorption, rapid metabolism and rapid elimination keep blood and tissue levels low. That's the reason many turmeric products add piperine (a black pepper extract) or use specialized formulations like liposomal or nanoparticle curcumin — approaches aimed specifically at improving on curcumin's naturally poor bioavailability. Fresh turmeric root or powder in a juice doesn't include those additions, so whatever curcumin it contains faces the same absorption limits described above.

What beetroot brings to the blend

Beetroot's research is almost entirely about dietary nitrate and physical performance. A 2025 umbrella review of 15 meta-analyses found nitrate doses of 515-1,017 mg a day, from concentrated juice, produced a negligible-to-small effect on strength, endurance and lactate tolerance — see beetroot benefits: what the research does and doesn't show for the full findings. That research is about juice at a measured nitrate dose, not a home-blended juice with turmeric and ginger added to it.

Has anyone tested beetroot and turmeric together?

Not that we've found. No trial we identified tested a beetroot-turmeric combination, juiced or as a supplement, for any outcome. Each ingredient's evidence base — nitrate research for beetroot, bioavailability and small clinical trials for curcumin — stands on its own; neither one has been shown to change what the other does.

Our beetroot capsule

Electric Tiger Beetroot is 1300 mg of whole organic beetroot powder per two-capsule serving, one ingredient, as low as $14.39 a bottle on subscription. Turmeric isn't the main ingredient of any standalone product we sell — it appears here only because people search for the two together, not because we're offering a combined product.

Questions people ask

Does turmeric make beetroot juice work better?

We haven't found evidence either way. No trial has tested the combination, and turmeric's curcumin has its own well-documented absorption problem that adding it to a juice doesn't solve.

Should I take beetroot and turmeric as one blend, or separately?

Either is fine as a matter of preference — there's no trial testing whether combining them changes the outcome of either ingredient's own research, described above. Taking them separately doesn't lose anything a combined blend would have provided, since no combination effect has been documented either way.

Can you drink beetroot, ginger and turmeric juice every day?

As a food and juice combination, we haven't found evidence that it's a problem for most people at typical amounts. See is it safe to take beetroot every day for beetroot's own daily-use considerations.

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