Nutrition

Beetroot gummies: what’s actually in them, and which ones declare it

Gummies have arrived on the beetroot shelf. We read the three UK product pages that came back with label text on them, and only one of them tells you how much beetroot you’re getting. That one puts its heart claim on a vitamin. The other two put it on the beetroot, on pages that never say how much beetroot is in there.

NK Medically reviewed by Dr Nouman Kazmi, MBBS FCPS ·9 min read

Key Takeaways

A pectin gummy has to be set with sugar, and one UK maker says so plainly on its own page: sucrose and glucose syrup are what make the sweet hold its shape.
Only one of the three UK pages we could read declares how much beetroot is in it: 200mg of beetroot extract at 10:1, equivalent to 2,000mg of whole beetroot, per two gummies. Both figures sit on the panel together, so the arithmetic is yours to check.
On a second page, beetroot appears fourth in the ingredient list, after tapioca syrup, cane sugar and water, and no weight is given for it anywhere.
A third prints 3000mg in the product name with “5:1 Extract” underneath, and never says which of those two things the 3000mg counts. Capsule ratios leave the same gap.
None of the three puts a sugar figure in grams on its website. “Contains sugars” is as close as any of them gets.
Only one of the three footnotes its heart sentence to a named nutrient, thiamin, and says so in its own copy. The other two hang the heart and circulation claims on the beetroot, and never say how much beetroot is in there.
The NHS and the British Heart Foundation both start somewhere else entirely, and the BHF’s own list of foods to limit names sweets.

In This Article

What a gummy has to be first
Where each page puts its heart claim
The sugar nobody puts a number on
Reading a gummy label in the shop
Where a gummy genuinely wins
Frequently asked questions
The bottom line

What a gummy has to be first

A beetroot gummy is a sweet that has been asked to carry a supplement. That sounds like a dig, and it isn’t: on a pectin gummy the sweet part is a manufacturing requirement rather than a marketing decision, and one of these makers is refreshingly plain about why.

Wellgard’s page for its Vegan Beetroot Gummies has a section headed “What This Won’t Do”, and it is the most useful paragraph on any of the three pages we read: “It won’t be sugar-free, because sucrose and glucose syrup are what set a pectin gummy. It won’t hold what a capsule holds, which is why Nitrabeets exists alongside it. And it won’t taste of beetroot, which is rather the point of making it this way.”

Worth reading that middle clause twice, because it’s doing two jobs at once. It’s a straight account of what the format costs you, and it’s a pointer to the same company’s capsule. We sell capsules too, so we’re not going to pass a rival’s cross-sell off as neutral advice. It’s a maker describing a real constraint, and it happens to suit them. It happens to suit us too.

The mechanism underneath it is simple enough. Pectin needs sugar to set, so take the sugar out of a pectin gummy and you haven’t got a gummy. That is a fact about this kind of sweet rather than about beetroot, and it comes with a caveat we can’t close: the top organic result on this search is a product whose own web address calls it sugar free, on a page that returned nothing at all for us to read. So sugar is structural in a pectin gummy, and what the sugar-free ones do instead is a question we can’t answer from here.

What we can say is that the question was never whether these three contain sugar. All three list it. The question is what else is in there and how much of it, and that is where they stop agreeing with each other.

What we could and couldn’t read. This search returns the UK high street, and the UK high street mostly wouldn’t open for us. Across both spellings of the query, Holland & Barrett returned nothing at all, Boots returned a bot-check page, and Amazon, eBay and Tesco refused the request outright. Two iHerb product pages did come back, carrying a price and a star rating and no nutrition panel between them. Three pages returned actual label text, and those three are the whole of what follows. Everything here describes those three pages, not the shelf.

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where beetroot appears in one UK gummy’s ingredient list, after tapioca syrup, cane sugar and water. The page gives a weight for none of the four. Beetroot is named plenty of times elsewhere on it, in the product name and all the way down the description. The ingredient list is the one place a quantity could have turned up, and it isn’t there.

Where each page puts its heart claim

All three pages say something about the heart or about circulation. Where they part company is in what they hang it on.

Wellgard hangs it on a vitamin, and shows its working. The page states “Contributes to the normal function of the heart” near the top and marks it with a footnote. Follow the footnote and it reads: “Thiamin contributes to the normal function of the heart.” Thiamin is vitamin B1, and the panel gives 1.1mg of it, the full daily reference intake. Then the page spells it out, in its own words: “What the panel can put a number against is the thiamin. There is 1.1mg of it, 100% of the daily reference intake, and it carries the sentence this page is built on.”

That’s a maker naming the ingredient its heart sentence rests on, and telling you plainly that it isn’t the vegetable in the product name. Of the three pages here, it’s the only one that does either of those things.

The Goli Beets Cardio page, as sold by Victoria Health, claims on both and separates neither. Its beetroot is “traditionally associated with healthy blood flow”, which tells you how long people have used it and nothing about how much is in the gummy. It’s also a “powerful beetroot extract supplement” offering a way to “support heart health naturally”, and also “rich in beetroot powder extract known for its nitric oxide boosting properties”. Alongside all that, CoQ10 and vitamin B12 are credited with helping “maintain normal heart function”. Four claims, two different owners, and no beetroot weight anywhere on the page to size any of it by.

Fraction One puts it squarely on the beetroot. Its bullet list headlines a nitric oxide boost and blood pressure support, and both of those are about the beetroot gummies rather than anything added to them. The one place it does credit the added nutrients is a passage on vitamin C and magnesium, and that list runs to muscle function, energy production, iron absorption, an antioxidant boost, collagen synthesis and the immune system. The heart isn’t in it. So the beetroot carries the circulation claim on its own, on a page with no nutrition panel and a front-of-pack figure that could mean either of two things.

The one page that tells you which ingredient its heart claim belongs to is also the only one that tells you how much beetroot you’re getting.

So the pattern across these three isn’t that the added vitamin always quietly gets the credit. It’s that the page willing to print a beetroot weight turns out to be the page that doesn’t need the beetroot to carry the claim, and the two leaning hardest on the beetroot are the two that never say how much of it is in there. Whether that’s cause, effect or coincidence, three pages can’t tell you. It’s worth knowing when you’re deciding between them.

None of which makes any of them a bad product. One is a vitamin supplement with beetroot in it and is clear about being exactly that, and if the added nutrients are what you were after you can see precisely how much of each you’re getting. The other two may well contain plenty of beetroot. You just can’t tell from the page, and that’s the thing worth knowing before you choose.

The sugar nobody puts a number on

“Worth it, or mostly sugar?” is the question people actually arrive with, and the honest finding is that none of these websites prints what you’d need to answer it.

Not one of the three prints sugar in grams. Wellgard’s description closes with the two words “Contains sugars”, which is a statement of fact and not a quantity. Goli’s page opens its ingredient list with tapioca syrup and cane sugar and gives no figure for either. Fraction One mentions “a natural source of dietary nitrates and sugars for sustained energy” and leaves it at that.

The back of the physical pack may well carry a nutrition panel the website never reproduces, and if the number matters to you then the pack in your hand is the place to look for it. What we can report is what these three pages put in print, and none of them puts a number on the sugar.

If it’s the comparison with juice you have in mind, our piece on beetroot shots versus capsules goes through that one with the figures attached, because shots do print theirs.

There’s a wider frame worth keeping, and it comes from the two organisations here with nothing to sell you. The British Heart Foundation’s advice is to “eat a healthy balanced diet that includes a variety of foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains and oily fish”, and to “limit salt and ultra-processed foods like cakes, sweets, crisps and fried foods”. A gummy is a sweet. A small one, and nobody is pretending it’s dinner, but it sits in the category the BHF asks you to limit rather than the one it recommends. Both of those things can be true at once, and holding them together is more useful than picking one.

Reading a gummy label in the shop

You’re in the aisle with two tubs and a minute to spare. Four questions, in this order, and the back of each pack either answers them or admits it can’t.

Is there a beetroot weight at all? The Wellgard panel gives two numbers that check each other: 200mg of beetroot extract at 10:1, equivalent to 2,000mg of whole Beta vulgaris, per two gummies. Its own page notes that no nutrient reference value exists for beetroot, so the panel has to state it as a plain amount. The Goli page gives no beetroot weight anywhere. That difference is what lets you compare one label with the other at all.
What does the big number on the front count? Fraction One says 3000mg in the product name and “5:1 Extract” underneath it. If the 3000mg is the extract, the starting material was 15,000mg. If it’s the starting material, the extract is 600mg. One of those is five times the extract of the other, and the page doesn’t say which one you’re buying.
How many gummies is a serving, and how long does the tub last? Wellgard asks you to chew two a day, so its 60 gummies last you a month. Fraction One prints 120 gummies and 60 servings, so two to a serving, but nowhere says how often to take one. Two a day would make that two months, which is our arithmetic and not their instruction. The count on the front and the days in the pack are two different numbers, and only one of them is about you.
Is the heart claim footnoted, and to what? If there’s a heart or circulation sentence with a little number after it, follow the number. On one of these three pages there was a footnote and it pointed at thiamin. On the other two there was nothing to follow, which is its own kind of answer.

And then the part no label will raise, which both the NHS and the BHF put first. The NHS opens its list of healthy lifestyle changes for blood pressure with having a healthy, balanced diet, exercising regularly and not eating too much salt. The BHF asks for the variety of foods above. Neither one mentions a gummy, a capsule or a shot, and that is the right way round. A supplement is an addition to that, never a substitute for it. Two of these three websites say so themselves, down in the small print: food supplements are not a substitute for a varied diet. The third doesn’t say it anywhere we could find.

Where a gummy genuinely wins

The case for a gummy isn’t on the panel, and the Wellgard page is straight about where it actually is: “The one people keep taking is the one they look forward to.”

That is most of the case for a gummy, and a better one than the panel makes it look. Something you abandon in a fortnight tells you nothing at all about your readings, because a single blood pressure number moves around all day and only a run of weeks settles into a shape you can read. If chewing something is what gets you to week eight and swallowing a capsule isn’t, then the chewable is the better product for you, whatever the panel says.

So the trade, stated plainly in both directions. A gummy buys you adherence with sugar, and pays for it with a smaller load of whatever you came for. A capsule holds more, asks you to swallow it, and offers you nothing to look forward to. Neither of those is a trick. They’re different compromises, and the right one depends on which of them you’ll still be doing in eight weeks.

Choosing a supplement

We made the other trade, and here’s what it cost

Daily Beets is a bag of capsules, two a day, because a capsule holds more than a sweet has room for. That’s the trade from the other end: nothing to look forward to at breakfast, and every active on the pack with a weight next to it. The biggest dose in a serving goes to hibiscus, 700mg across the two capsules, which is why beetroot carries the name on the front rather than the weight. Our guide to the best beetroot supplement in the UK goes through what each format’s label does and doesn’t tell you, ours included. Designed to support healthy circulation.

Read the beetroot supplement guide → What the labels declare·And what they leave out

Frequently asked questions

How much beetroot is in a beetroot gummy?

Of the three UK gummy pages our research could open, only one declares it: 200mg of beetroot extract at 10:1, equivalent to 2,000mg of whole beetroot, per two gummies, with both figures on the panel together. A second doesn’t give a beetroot weight anywhere, and lists it fourth, after tapioca syrup, cane sugar and water. A third prints 3000mg in the product name with “5:1 Extract” underneath and never says which of the two that figure counts. If the amount matters to you, a label carrying both the extract weight and the whole-root equivalent is the only one you can actually compare.

Do beetroot gummies contain a lot of sugar?

None of the three pages we read prints sugar in grams, so from the websites alone you can’t tell. What one maker does say is that the sugar is structural rather than careless: “It won’t be sugar-free, because sucrose and glucose syrup are what set a pectin gummy.” On both pages that publish an ingredient list, sugars come first. The back of the physical pack may well carry a nutrition panel the website never reproduces, so if the figure matters, the pack in your hand is the place to look for it.

Are beetroot gummies as good as beetroot capsules?

They’re a different compromise rather than a worse one. One of the makers puts it this way on its own page: a gummy “won’t hold what a capsule holds, which is why Nitrabeets exists alongside it”, so that’s a maker pointing at its own capsule as well as describing a real constraint. We sell capsules too, which is worth knowing when you read it. A capsule carries a larger load and asks you to swallow it. A gummy carries less and is easier to keep up with. Because something you stop taking after a fortnight tells you nothing about your readings, the honest comparison is which format you’ll still be taking in eight weeks.

Are beetroot gummies good for blood pressure?

Two of the three product pages we read put a circulation or blood-pressure claim on the beetroot itself, and neither of those two carries a nutrition panel or any beetroot weight that would let you size it. The third puts its heart sentence on thiamin, a vitamin, and says so in its own copy. None of the three publishes a trial. The NHS puts a healthy balanced diet, regular exercise and less salt at the top of its list, and the British Heart Foundation asks for a variety of foods including fruit, vegetables, whole grains and oily fish. Neither mentions a supplement in any form. If you’re taking anything alongside prescribed medicine, it’s worth raising with your GP or pharmacist.

Which ingredient carries the heart claim on a beetroot gummy?

It depends which page you’re holding, and only one of the three tells you. Wellgard footnotes its heart sentence to thiamin, gives 1.1mg of it at 100% of the daily reference intake, and says in its own copy that the thiamin “carries the sentence this page is built on”. The Goli Beets Cardio page claims heart-health support on the beetroot extract itself and separately credits CoQ10 and vitamin B12 with normal heart function. Fraction One puts its nitric-oxide and blood-pressure bullets on the beetroot, and credits its vitamin C and magnesium with muscle function, energy, iron absorption, collagen and immunity rather than the heart.

Why don’t the gummy websites print a sugar figure?

We can’t speak for them. What we can report is what our research returned for this search: Holland & Barrett came back with no text at all, Boots returned a bot-check page, and Amazon, eBay and Tesco refused the request. Two iHerb pages did return text, but only a price and a star rating, with no nutrition panel. That left three pages carrying actual label text, and on those three the sugar is named as an ingredient and never quantified. The physical pack may carry a panel the website leaves out, which is where to check.

The bottom line

A beetroot gummy is a sweet that has been asked to carry a supplement, and the sugar is what makes it set. Of the three UK pages we could read, one declares how much beetroot you get, in two numbers that agree with each other. The other two don’t declare it at all, and on one of them the beetroot sits fourth in the ingredient list behind two sugars and water.

The one that declares its beetroot is also the one that footnotes its heart sentence to a vitamin and says so. The two that put the heart and circulation claims on the beetroot are the two that never tell you how much beetroot is in there. That doesn’t make them bad products, and it isn’t a pattern three pages can prove. It is the thing to look at before you choose.

So look for a declared beetroot weight, work out what the number on the front is counting, check how long the tub actually lasts, and follow the footnote on any heart claim, if there is one. Then pick the format you’ll still be taking in eight weeks, because consistency is the part no label can print, and it’s the part that makes a trend worth reading.

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References

NHS. High blood pressure (hypertension). Cited for the healthy lifestyle changes list: a healthy balanced diet, exercising regularly and not eating too much salt. Available at: nhs.uk
British Heart Foundation. High blood pressure (hypertension), causes and symptoms. Cited for the balanced-diet wording and the instruction to limit salt and ultra-processed foods including cakes and sweets. Available at: bhf.org.uk
Wellgard. Vegan Beetroot Gummies with Thiamin, 60, product page. The 200mg beetroot extract at 10:1 equivalent to 2,000mg whole Beta vulgaris per two gummies, the 1.1mg of thiamin at 100% of the daily reference intake, the thiamin footnote carrying the heart sentence, the sucrose and glucose syrup, the “Contains sugars” line, the sixty gummies at thirty servings, and the maker’s own “What This Won’t Do” and “look forward to” passages, all captured 29 October 2026. Note that the “won’t hold what a capsule holds” sentence ends by pointing the reader at the same maker’s own capsule product. Self-describing product properties; re-verify on any refresh, because a product page changes without notice. Available at: wellgard.co.uk
Victoria Health. Goli® Beets Cardio Gummies, 60 Pack, product page. The ingredient list opening tapioca syrup, cane sugar, water, beet root powder extract, the absence of any beetroot weight, the “traditionally associated with healthy blood flow”, “powerful beetroot extract supplement”, “support heart health naturally” and “nitric oxide boosting properties” lines, and the separate CoQ10 and vitamin B12 attribution for normal heart function, captured 29 October 2026. Self-describing product properties; re-verify on any refresh. Available at: victoriahealth.com
Fraction One. Beetroot Gummies 3000mg, 120 Gummies, product page. The 3000mg product name with “5:1 Extract” beneath it, the 120 gummies at 60 servings, the nitric-oxide and blood-pressure bullets attributed to the beetroot gummies themselves, and the separate vitamin C and magnesium passage covering muscle function, energy production, iron absorption, antioxidant effect, collagen synthesis and the immune system, captured 29 October 2026. Self-describing product properties; re-verify on any refresh. Available at: fractionone.co.uk

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