Make Choosing Good Food for High Blood Pressure an Easy and Exciting Experience
Choosing food for high blood pressure sufferers need not be a daunting task or a boring one. Tips and recipes from around the world are soon to collect here, so we will have a whole menagerie of cultures to choose from. Heh! Let’s face it! Can you find a better excuse for enjoying the culinary delights of the whole world? Well, ok, there are lots, but at least just drooling over the recipes will make your blood pressure drop a few mmHg. And that’s exactly what I have in store for you in this little corner of delightful indulgences.
Here you are going to find a high blood pressure recipe to suit almost everyone, and if the dishes don`t stop you worrying over your high blood pressure for a while, then nothing will.
Starting with a list, preferably organic, of the main food categories that are known to help reduce high blood pressure, will help those of us who are born Chefs in the kitchen to create new, tasty dishes.
These vegetables are at the top of the list of food for high blood pressure, for supporting the cardiovascular system either by their powerful antioxidants or diuretic activity.
Good News! There there has been a Scientific Breakthrough in the UK. Read what Professors have discovered about beetroot! They don`t mention antioxidants or diuretic properties, so what is it?....
Establishing the nutritional benefits is only the beginning. Transforming this colourful array of vegetables into dishes of delicious combination is the enjoyable part. Fortunately, chefs, cooks, grannies and nutritional experts have taken their years of experience and knowledge and put them together in recipe books, or passed their traditions down by word of mouth from around the world for us to use and enjoy.
Your prior thinking that only boring vegetables can be served up as food for high blood pressure will be transformed into versatile innovations for tasty soups that are hot or cold, or stuffed with rice, beans or sea food, designed with colour combinations to appeal to the eyes as well as the palate. So on that note, let’s move on to the next category!
Fruit
We have so much potassium rich fruit to choose from as food for high blood pressure. Instead of buying the usual, step out of the comfort zone and mix in some exotic varieties.
Sanguinello(the Sicilian blood red orange)
A medium sized sanguinello has 260mgs of potassium.
Bananas are a well known nutrient packed food for high blood pressure. When you are in a hurry and don`t have time to sit and eat, pack a banana. What`s more maybe they protect against heart disease and stroke!
Kiwi fruit
The Kiwi is found in abundance but did you know that apart from it being rich in potassium, the skin also contains flavanoid antioxidants.
Strawberries
Anyone for tennis? One of the highlights of Wimbledon Tennis season is the strawberries and cream. Lovely! They definitely need to provide food for high blood pressure there, I should say! Strawberries are a great source of vitamin C, flavanoids and need I say it, potassium. Available worldwide they are found in desserts from around the world.
Apricots
Apricots glow with beta-carotene and potassium.
Passion Fruit
Don’t forget the passion fruit. They call it Parcha in Puerto Rico believing that it lowers blood pressure. The flower too, as a herb, is noted for it`s effectiveness. It is said that if you eat enough of the fruit you can fall in love with the person sitting next to you, so if you want somebody that badly, invite them out to dinner and eat, drink and sleep Passion fruit. Eat your heart out King Solomon!
As a reminder, rich potassium laden food for high blood pressure should be eaten in balance. These are only rough guidelines to give you an idea of the choices. Your dietician knows you as an individual having specific needs. (Please click on the link at the foot of this page to read the disclaimer.)
Pulses (Legumes)
(Use sparingly. Foods high in carbohydrates especially if you are overweight or have an insulin problem.) Red kidney beans, Black eye peas (beans), Lentils.
Fish, White meat, red meat, ????? I can hear a sharp intake of breath! Did I say "Red Meat"? Later!
Drinks
Cranberry, Beer!, Wine!, (
alcohol
should be taken in moderation of course)
Tomato Juice
If you like tomato juice then you are going to love this. It should be near top of the list as a food for high blood pressure.
Did you know, according to the European Journal of Nutrition, when 12 healthy women ate enough tomato products to provide them with 8 mg of lycopene daily for a period of three weeks, their LDL cholesterol was much less susceptible to free radical oxidation, which leads to atherosclerotic plaque formation and a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
Tomatoes are a very good source of potassium, niacin, vitamin B6, and folate. Niacin is used to safely lower high cholesterol levels.
Foods rich in potassium have been shown to lower high blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease, and tomatoes are an excellent food for high blood pressure as they are very high in potassium.
If you are a diabetic and have blood pressure as a result, you will be interested to know that tests by Australian research and published by the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that tomato juice will help lower high blood pressure, as it can reduce the effect of hyperactive blood platelets responsible for the health of blood vessels.
This Indian-style meal serves 4 and consists of spicy ingredients, (not hot), with lamb cooked in low fat yogurt. It takes 1 hour and forty five minutes from preparation to the finished dish.
A suggestion is to serve it up with basmati rice (I used brown basmati), fresh tomato and cucumber chutney. Each serving has 1000mg of potassium.
Bon appetite!
Gem
There are lots of interesting combinations of foods that can help bring your pressure down, but some people find that eliminating certain food and drink from their diets made an incredible difference. Here`s your chance to tell us what you found was raising the pressure.
Mmmmmm? Which diet to choose can we confusing. There are so many of them! Which one is the best? If you have found the ideal one, we want to here about it. Was it easy to keep up or did you find it difficult?
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