Determination of Anti-hypertensive Potential of Beetroot Powder on Hypertensive Patients

Abstract

Hypertension is a disease in itself and also a risk factor for many other chronic cardiac conditions which are heart attacks, stroke and other CVDs. Beetroot beta vulgaris is a natural root used as a vegetable, having many health potent benefits and nutraceutical cures, most prominent of them is lowering high blood pressure with the help of dietary nitrate in it.The present study was devised to analyze the beetroot powder hypotensive potential on hypertension. For this purpose characterization (proximate analysis, TPC and TFC) of beetroot powder was conducted as part of the study. And blood tests for sodium and potassium electrolytes were done before and after the study duration. Beetroot was obtained by the washing, peeling, and size-reduction, sun drying and grinding of beetroot. Results of proximate analysis of beetroot powder showed that beetroot powder contains 2.18% of protein, 70.42% of moisture, 8.25% of fiber, 5.06 % of ash, 4.00% of fat and 10.09% of nitrogen free extract. Flavonoid content of beetroot was measured at 478 nm and phenolic content showed absorbance at 67.65 nm. Human efficacy was carried out on 30 hypertensive females comprising of 3 groups each group contained 10 subjects, provided them with capsules of beet root powder for 60 days with different dosages G0 acted as a control group, G1 (250 mg) and G2(500 mg). Their Arterial systolic and diastolic blood pressure were monitored on weekly basis every 7th day for 6 weeks. The data obtained was subjected to statistical analysis for theevaluation of results which showed that 500 mg dose of beetroot powder was highly significant for hypertensive patients.