Red Coffee

Two ingredients. Two mechanisms.

Red Coffee is a two-ingredient beverage: Arabica coffee and beetroot powder. Each ingredient activates an independently published mechanism.

Caffeine (58 mg per serving)

Caffeine blocks adenosine receptors — the molecule that makes you feel sleepy. It also activates neural firing, which increases the cell’s demand for ATP — the energy currency produced by mitochondria.

Dietary Nitrate (120 mg per serving)

Your body converts dietary nitrate to nitric oxide — a molecule that widens blood vessels. Each serving contributes to the body’s recirculating nitrate–nitrite–NO pool via the enterosalivary pathway.

Three scientists won the 1998 Nobel Prize for discovering how nitric oxide signals in the body.

Two complementary pathways

Caffeine delivers focus. Nitric oxide supports blood flow and oxygen delivery. Each mechanism is independently established in published research. Together in one cup, they operate as complementary pathways — focus and flow.

References

• Fredholm et al., 1999 — Adenosine receptor antagonism (caffeine mechanism)
• Nehlig, 2010 — Caffeine and neural activation
• Lundberg et al., 2008 — Enterosalivary nitrate–NO pathway
• Lidder & Webb, 2013 — Dietary nitrate and nitric oxide, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
• Nobel Foundation, 1998 — Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (nitric oxide signaling)
• Brzezinska-Rojek et al., 2023 — 50-product beetroot supplement analysis, Foods (MDPI)