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Want a healthy heart? Eat nutrition-rich seaweed!

Washington , Thu, 21 Jul 2011 ANI

Washington, July 21 (ANI): Seaweeds, mostly found in Hawaiian and Japanese cuisine, are a rich new source of heart-healthy food ingredients, which could rival milk products as sources of these so-called 'bioactive peptides', according to a new study.

 

Bioactive peptides, now obtained mainly from milk products, not only provide nutrition, but also have a medicine-like effect in treating or preventing certain diseases.

 

Maria Hayes and her colleagues reviewed almost 100 scientific studies and concluded that that some seaweed proteins work just like the bioactive peptides in milk products to reduce blood pressure almost like the popular ACE inhibitor drugs.

 

They noted that people in East Asian and other cultures have eaten seaweed for centuries.

 

"The variety of macroalga species and the environments in which they are found and their ease of cultivation make macroalgae a relatively untapped source of new bioactive compounds, and more efforts are needed to fully exploit their potential for use and delivery to consumers in food products," the researchers conclude.

 

The study is published in ACS's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. (ANI)

 


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