After completing this continuing education course, nutrition professionals should be better able to:

1. Discuss the role dietary nitrates can have on exercise performance.
2. Name five foods rich in dietary nitrates and accurately assess their approximate nitrate content per ½-cup serving.
3. State three physiological changes known to occur following dietary nitrate supplementation in humans and explain how each respective change enhances exercise performance.
4. Estimate appropriate dietary nitrate content necessary to improve exercise performance as well as predict what types of exercise will be most likely influenced by these corresponding nitrate dosages.
5. Contrast the potential effects dietary nitrate supplementation has on exercise performance in moderately/recreationally trained vs elite-trained athletes.