Guide
Is It Safe to Take Beetroot Every Day?
For most people, taking a labeled dose of beetroot daily isn't documented as a safety problem. The two specific things worth knowing are beetroot's relatively high oxalate content and, for a specific brand's safety, that we can only speak to our own label.
For most people, taking a labeled dose of beetroot every day isn't documented as a safety problem — beetroot is a food, and most of what's specifically flagged in the research is about oxalate content at high intakes, not a general daily-use risk. Beyond that, it depends on which product: we can only speak to our own label, not a specific brand's.
Is it safe to take beetroot every day?
We haven't found a study documenting daily beetroot supplementation, at a normal labeled dose, as unsafe for a general, healthy adult population. The clearest specific consideration is oxalate: a 1999 nutrition review names beetroot among the common high-oxalate foods, alongside rhubarb, spinach and tea, and notes that a diet consistently low in calcium and high in oxalate isn't recommended — particularly for people with a history of calcium-oxalate kidney stones. That same review states plainly that occasional consumption of high-oxalate foods isn't a particular problem for most people; the concern is a sustained pattern of low calcium and high oxalate together, not eating or supplementing with beetroot daily in isolation. Beyond oxalate, beeturia (harmless pink or red urine) is the other well-documented effect of regular beetroot intake — see beetroot side effects.
What about a specific brand?
A lot of searches on this topic name a specific product or brand. We can't speak to another company's supplement, its manufacturing, or its label — only to Electric Tiger Beetroot's own facts panel and directions, described below. If you're asking about safety for a brand other than ours, that's a question for that brand's own label and customer support.
Daily beetroot juice
Drinking beetroot juice daily is a different product from a powder capsule — juice research doses to a stated nitrate amount, and a 2023 lab analysis of 50 commercial beetroot supplements found that none of the products tested, including juice-based ones, exceeded the acceptable daily intake for nitrate or nitrite at their own label-recommended doses. That's a finding about the products tested in that analysis specifically, not a blanket safety statement about every beetroot juice on the market, and it doesn't test drinking more than a label directs.
What our label says
Electric Tiger Beetroot's label directs two capsules once a day (1300 mg of whole organic beetroot powder), 20-30 minutes before a meal with 8 oz of water, and warns: do not exceed the recommended dose; consult a physician if pregnant, nursing, under 18, or if you have a medical condition; keep out of reach of children. Following those directions, rather than a higher or more frequent amount, is the straightforward way to use it daily.
Questions people ask
Are beetroot capsules or pills safe?
At a labeled dose, we haven't found research documenting a safety problem for a general healthy adult population. Anyone pregnant, nursing, under 18, or with a medical condition should ask a doctor first, per our label.
How much beetroot juice should I drink daily?
There's no official daily amount for beetroot juice as a beverage. Performance research has used nitrate doses of 515-1,017 mg a day from concentrated juice — see how much beetroot should you take a day for that full picture, including why it doesn't translate directly to a plain milligram amount on a powder capsule.
What happens if you eat beetroot every day?
For most people, nothing beyond the possibility of beeturia (harmless pink or red urine). See foods with beetroot for the food-specific version of this question.
Related reading: beetroot side effects, who should not take beetroot, and how much beetroot should you take a day.
Sources
- Oxalate content of foods and its effect on humans Beetroot is one of the more common high-oxalate foods; a diet consistently low in calcium and high in oxalate isn't recommended, but occasional consumption of high-oxalate foods isn't considered a problem for most people.
- Antioxidant Capacity, Nitrite and Nitrate Content in Beetroot-Based Dietary Supplements Lab testing of 50 commercial beetroot supplements found that fresh beetroot itself generally contains more nitrate than most beetroot supplement servings do, and nitrate content varied widely from product to product.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
