Pea Protein and Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure

• Pea protein preload improves postprandial glucose response in healthy adults: a randomized, double-blind, controlled pilot study.

  • 2026-06
  • RCT
  • European journal of nutrition 65(4)
  • • Arig Elbira
    • Priscilla Grace Gnanasekaran Punithalayal
    • Alan Javier Hernández-Álvarez
    • Christine Boesch

  • PubMed: 42274793
  • DOI: 10.1007/s00394-026-03971-3

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Adults

  both PP and PrePP significantly reduced diastolic BP compared to CHO (- 4.2 mmHg at 150 min, p < 0.05; -9.2 mmHg at 180 min, p < 0.01, respectively).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  not stated