Granted, some things that are paired with the nitrates can have benefits with the nitrates, like arginine potentially helping with nitrate tolerance, but you shouldn’t have to actually pair/join the nitrates with that ingredient to get the benefits. In fact, by joining the two together, you may end unable to get optimal doses of both together, so using the two separate may be ideal. Like creatine is great, and nitrates are great, but when you use creatine nitrate, you’re either not getting sufficeint creatine to reach/maintain saturation, or you’re getting way too high of a dose of nitrates if you’re trying to use it as a sole source of creatine.