MAKE SURE you add vegetable intake in daily life. How simple can keep you, your children and your whole family from hypertension. This statement is supported by a study from the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago who discovered, one of the amino acid is glutamic acid, the most commonly found in vegetable protein, it can lower blood pressure. According to the researchers, these findings help explain in more detail why the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet played a role in lowering blood pressure. DASH diet rich in vegetables, whole grains, and soy which is a vegetable protein-rich food. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein, and amino acid glutamic acid is most commonly found in the study. This amino acid type recorded as many as 23% of the total protein, in those who eat plenty of vegetables, and as many as 18% of the total protein in those who ate meat.