Furthermore, inorganic nitrate ingestion (beetroot juice) has also been demonstrated to improve time to claudication pain while walking in peripheral artery disease patients (Kenjale, Ham et al. 2011), and lower plasma triglycerides in patients at risk for cardiovascular disease (Zand, Lanza et al. 2011), providing evidence for inorganic nitrate ingestion to improve vasodilation/perfusion. Whether a bolus ingestion of nitrate would also influence the perfusion of nutrients following the ingestion of a small meal remains unknown. Therefore, in a secondary aim, we want to investigate the plasma metabolite response in addition to nitrate and nitrite concentrations following the nitrate supplementation and subsequent meal ingestion.