San Francisco, If you have high blood pressure disease, starting now you can eat chicken feet. Because in the chicken legs there is a collagen that can help lower high blood pressure.

Researchers from Japan have discovered a collagen protein that can act as blood pressure drug so-called with ACE inhibitors.

“Result from this research is, some the collagens in chicken can reduce someone blood pressure,” said Dr. Byrin Lee, a kardiologis from faculty medical in University of California, San Francisco, as quoted by Reuters on Sunday (25/10/2009).

But Lee also added that we still have to be careful, because the salt that put on the chicken while cooking may reduce or reverse the potential benefits of the chicken collagen.

These findings are also supported by Ai Saiga and colleagues from Nippon Meat Packers Inc.. ‘S Research and Development Center are looking for how to find a blood pressure-lowering drugs using collagen from chicken. The results of this study have been published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Previous research has found a chicken breast meat contains small amounts of collagen, which is too small to be developed into food and medication for high blood pressure. However, researchers eventually discovered that the chicken leg instead of collagen protein for more.

For this new study, researchers took collagen protein from chicken legs and performed a test to see whether collagen is able to act just like high blood pressure medications called ACE inhibitors. And it was researchers found that four proteins contained in the chicken can act as a blood pressure medicine.

In examining the results of this study, the researchers used a mouse experimental animals that have received a certain treatment that the mice have a pressure
high blood pressure. Given that collagen proteins found in chickens, a decline in blood pressure.

For that is currently developed hidrolisat of collagen protein that can later be easily incorporated into everyday foods. So that normal blood pressure can still be achieved without sacrificing the quality of life of these people.