This simple and delicious salad helps maintain blood pressure
We're pretty sure you haven't heard of Sunomono salad, and that's a shame.
Because now it turns out that the Asian cucumber salad helps balance blood pressure and it does so through one important ingredient
Voila system!
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07/28/2022
Thursday, July 28, 2022, 07:44 Updated: 08:16
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Both tasty and healthy.
Sonomono salad (Photo: Alon Mesika)
Salad is perhaps one of the most important components of any diet or nutritional change, but it turns out that it can do much more than just contribute to weight loss.
A new observational study from Japan highlights the virtues of vinegar in our diet.
He does this through an experiment conducted by scientists from Osaka University who report that regular consumption of a Japanese cucumber and seaweed salad called sunomono among older men (40+) helps maintain lower blood pressure.
A previous study showed that people who drank 30 ml of vinegar on a daily basis tended to have lower blood pressure levels. However, the people studied also lost a significant amount of weight, which may explain the low blood pressure.
Researchers claim that the in-depth Sonomono salad test provided the unique opportunity to conduct an observational study designed to assess whether vinegar consumption correlates with fluctuations in blood pressure.
Sunomono is a very common food in Japan, usually eaten by older people and found in every supermarket, or in other words, it is a great dietary source of vinegar among the Japanese.
A recipe for a Japanese cucumber and seaweed salad
To investigate this issue, researchers recruited 1,498 men and women over the age of 40 who had already had their blood pressure checked or had other health problems.
Among that group, 746 subjects underwent a blood pressure test and were classified according to the guidelines of the Japanese Society for Hypertension.
Those participants then completed a nutritional survey that focused heavily on the consumption of foods containing vinegar such as the Sunomono salad.
"Vinegar is difficult to research specifically because it is not a major ingredient in meals, you might get a little vinaigrette in a salad or pickles, but people rarely drink the vinegar solution of the pickles. In Sunomono, vinegar is part of the dish and people usually finish it," explained the authors of the study.
The most important ingredient in the salad.
Vinegar (Photo: Nimrod Saunders)
When the researchers evaluated all the data collected, a pattern began to emerge.
"Men who did not eat Sunomono had significantly higher blood pressure, even though their weight and BMI were the same."
We believe it can promote the growth of good microbiota in the gut, but we will need more studies to confirm this," they said.
Consuming Sonomono at least once a month was correlated with lower average blood pressure in male subjects. This was true even after the study authors accounted for a large number of Other factors include BMI, age, smoking history, and sodium, potassium, and alcohol intake habits.
"We're not sure how vinegar causes these health benefits;
Increasing vinegar consumption does not lead to further improvement in blood pressure.
However, diet is one of the easiest things to change!
We want everyone to know that even eating a Sunomono salad once in a while can make a difference in blood pressure," they concluded.
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