Patients with high blood pressure should regularly consume foods high in plant-based protein, such as various beans, bean products, spinach, eggplant, sesame, black fungus, and seaweed. They should also frequently eat foods that help lower blood pressure and blood lipids, such as celery, cabbage, radish, carrots, jellyfish, kelp, beef, crucian carp, mandarin fish, and snakehead fish. Those who prefer a salty diet should also eat more potassium-rich foods, such as cabbage, oranges, vinegar, grapefruit, and lemons, as these foods help the body expel salt.
Because wheat contains a large amount of fiber, which is beneficial for the proliferation of intestinal bacteria and the regeneration of pantothenic acid, and pantothenic acid helps prevent and treat high blood pressure, and the wheat fiber itself also helps lower cholesterol levels, eating brown rice is much better for patients with high blood pressure than eating white rice. Here, several medicinal foods for patients with high blood pressure will be introduced.