{"id":41180,"date":"2025-07-30T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/?p=41180"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:23:53","slug":"beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg\" alt=\"beetroot juice lowers blood pressure changes oral microbiome\" class=\"wp-image-41181 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg\" alt=\"beetroot juice lowers blood pressure changes oral microbiome\" class=\"wp-image-41181 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: alfastudio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The blood pressure-lowering effect of nitrate-rich beetroot juice in older people may be due to specific changes in their oral microbiome, according to the largest study of its kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers at the University of Exeter, England, conducted the study,\u00a0published\u00a0in the journal\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0891584925008068?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Free Radical Biology and Medicine<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>comparing responses between a group of older adults to that of younger adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nitrate is crucial to the body and is consumed as a natural part of a vegetable-rich diet. When the older adults drank a concentrated beetroot juice shot twice a day for two weeks, their blood pressure decreased\u2014an effect not seen in the younger group.<\/p><div class=\"bitem-article-desktop-720x300-in-text\" id=\"bitem-3629402878\"><!-- Bite 720x300 [async] -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">if (!window.AdButler){(function(){var s = document.createElement(\"script\"); s.async = true; s.type = \"text\/javascript\";s.src = 'https:\/\/servedby.engagemedia.com.au\/app.js';var n = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; n.parentNode.insertBefore(s, n);}());}<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\nvar AdButler = AdButler || {}; AdButler.ads = AdButler.ads || [];\r\nvar abkw = window.abkw || '';\r\nvar plc705185 = window.plc705185 || 0;\r\ndocument.write('<'+'div id=\"placement_705185_'+plc705185+'\"><\\\/'+'div>');\r\nAdButler.ads.push({handler: function(opt){ AdButler.register(165450, 705185, [720,300], 'placement_705185_'+opt.place, opt); }, opt: { place: plc705185++, keywords: abkw, domain: 'servedby.engagemedia.com.au', click:'CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER' }});\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The new study provides evidence that this outcome was likely caused by the suppression of potentially harmful bacteria in the mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An imbalance between beneficial and harmful oral bacteria can decrease the conversion of nitrate (abundant in vegetable-rich diets) to nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is key to healthy functioning of the blood vessels, and therefore the regulation of blood pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study recruited 39 adults aged under 30, and 36 adults in their 60s and 70s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each group spent two weeks taking regular doses of nitrate-rich beetroot juice and two weeks on a placebo version of the juice with nitrate stripped out. Each condition had a two-week \u2018wash out\u2019 period in between to reset.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team then used a bacterial gene sequencing method to analyse which bacteria were present in the mouth before and after each condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In both groups, the make-up of the oral microbiome changed significantly after drinking the nitrate-rich beetroot juice, but these changes differed between the younger and older age groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The older age group experienced a notable decrease in the mouth bacteria Prevotella after drinking the nitrate-rich juice, and an increase in the growth of bacteria known to benefit health, such as Neisseria. The older group had higher average blood pressure at the start of the study, which fell after taking the nitrate-rich beetroot&nbsp;juice, but not after taking the placebo supplement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This study shows that nitrate-rich foods alter the&nbsp;oral microbiome&nbsp;in a way that could result in less inflammation, as well as a lowering of blood pressure in older people,\u201d study co-author Professor Andy Jones said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blood pressure-lowering effect of nitrate-rich beetroot juice in older people may be due to specific changes in their oral microbiome, according to the largest study of its kind. Researchers at the University of Exeter, England, conducted the study,\u00a0published\u00a0in the journal\u00a0Free Radical Biology and Medicine,\u00a0comparing responses between a group of older adults to that of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":41181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25734,7120,383,3199],"class_list":{"0":"post-41180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dental_news","8":"tag-gene-sequencing","9":"tag-high-blood-pressure","10":"tag-oral-bacteria","11":"tag-oral-microbiome"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome, study shows - Bite Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome, study shows\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The blood pressure-lowering effect of nitrate-rich beetroot juice in older people may be due to specific changes in their oral microbiome, according to the largest study of its kind. Researchers at the University of Exeter, England, conducted the study,\u00a0published\u00a0in the journal\u00a0Free Radical Biology and Medicine,\u00a0comparing responses between a group of older adults to that of [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Bite Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Bite.Mag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-30T00:23:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-30T00:23:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/d9a0da9738e8b22c86465898e79cff17\"},\"headline\":\"Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome, study shows\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-30T00:23:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-30T00:23:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/\"},\"wordCount\":387,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"gene sequencing\",\"high blood pressure\",\"oral bacteria\",\"oral microbiome\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Dental News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/\",\"name\":\"Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome, study shows - Bite Magazine\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-30T00:23:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-30T00:23:53+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":683},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome, study shows\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/\",\"name\":\"Bite Magazine\",\"description\":\"Independent dental news, views and reviews\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Bite Magazine\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BiteLogo2018_signature.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BiteLogo2018_signature.jpg\",\"width\":200,\"height\":148,\"caption\":\"Bite Magazine\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Bite.Mag\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/bitemag\",\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/bite-magazine\",\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bitemag\",\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/c\/BitemagazineAu\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/d9a0da9738e8b22c86465898e79cff17\",\"name\":\"Editor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e4d16bc0fd5d2eb384749441bf06e869dab819e66b977a72dc3fb5b798b3f0c4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e4d16bc0fd5d2eb384749441bf06e869dab819e66b977a72dc3fb5b798b3f0c4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Editor\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/author\/editor\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome, study shows - Bite Magazine","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome, study shows","og_description":"The blood pressure-lowering effect of nitrate-rich beetroot juice in older people may be due to specific changes in their oral microbiome, according to the largest study of its kind. Researchers at the University of Exeter, England, conducted the study,\u00a0published\u00a0in the journal\u00a0Free Radical Biology and Medicine,\u00a0comparing responses between a group of older adults to that of [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/","og_site_name":"Bite Magazine","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Bite.Mag","article_published_time":"2025-07-30T00:23:50+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-07-30T00:23:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":683,"url":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Editor","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Editor","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/"},"author":{"name":"Editor","@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/d9a0da9738e8b22c86465898e79cff17"},"headline":"Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome, study shows","datePublished":"2025-07-30T00:23:50+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-30T00:23:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/"},"wordCount":387,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg","keywords":["gene sequencing","high blood pressure","oral bacteria","oral microbiome"],"articleSection":["Dental News"],"inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/","url":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/","name":"Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome, study shows - Bite Magazine","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg","datePublished":"2025-07-30T00:23:50+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-30T00:23:53+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beetroot-juice-1.jpg","width":1024,"height":683},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/beetroot-juice-lowers-blood-pressure-in-older-people-by-changing-oral-microbiome-study-shows\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome, study shows"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/","name":"Bite Magazine","description":"Independent dental news, views and reviews","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#organization","name":"Bite Magazine","url":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BiteLogo2018_signature.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BiteLogo2018_signature.jpg","width":200,"height":148,"caption":"Bite Magazine"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Bite.Mag","https:\/\/x.com\/bitemag","http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/bite-magazine","http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bitemag","http:\/\/youtube.com\/c\/BitemagazineAu"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/d9a0da9738e8b22c86465898e79cff17","name":"Editor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e4d16bc0fd5d2eb384749441bf06e869dab819e66b977a72dc3fb5b798b3f0c4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e4d16bc0fd5d2eb384749441bf06e869dab819e66b977a72dc3fb5b798b3f0c4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Editor"},"url":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/author\/editor\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitemagazine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}