A Canadian study just released reports that eating yellow garden pea proteins may lower blood pressure as well as lessen the effects of kidney disease.
Canadian researchers fed a mixture of the proteins to rats over an 8-week period. Blood pressure dropped 20 percent in the rats that ate the yellow garden pea proteins versus those that didn't. Additionally, urine production, which kidney disease can severely curtail, rose 30 percent among the treated rats.
The study is of particular interest for the more than one in 10 American adults who suffer from kidney disease, which contributes to high blood pressure due to kidney malfunction.
Although it's too early to say, however, if a pea-based therapy would control blood pressure in people with kidney disease, researchers said human trials are underway and could be available in two to three years.
What researchers especially like is the fact that this is a natural, edible product, not a drug with possible side effects and the risk of overdosing.
The researchers, meanwhile, do not recommend consuming yellow green peas in their pure vegetable state to seek this health benefit. Instead, they say that it would be necessary to first mix certain enzymes with the pea protein and convert this mixture into a liquid food additive or nutritional supplement in pill form in order to activate the benefit.
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