Number of people suffering from high BP is increasing at an alarming pace. Tensions of personal and professional life combined with unhealthy eating habits are the main cause of high BP.A recent Japanese study showed that chicken soup can help in fighting high blood pressure.  

Ai Saiga of Nippon Meat Packers and colleagues claim that chicken legs and feet are better source of collagen as compared to chicken breast. 

Previous studies have shown that chicken breast contains collagen proteins with effects similar to ACE inhibitors, mainstay medications for treating high BP. But recent research showed that chicken breast contains such small amounts of the proteins that it could not be used to develop food and medical products for high BP.

In this study, researchers tested the ability of collagen extracted from chicken legs to act as an ACE inhibitor on rats used to model human high BP. The proteins produced a significant and prolonged decrease in blood pressure. Researchers identified four different proteins in the collagen mixture with high ACE-inhibitory activity.