China National Research Institute of Food and Fermentation Industries

Weixue Yi

Liang Chen

Yong Ma

Lu Lu

Jun Lu

Zhe Dong

Muyi Cai

Ruizeng Gu

Xingchang Pan

Feng Lin

Yaguang Xu

Wenying Liu

Yongqing Ma

Zhentao Jin

The present invention discloses a method for producing antihypertensive active peptides with corn germ protein as the material. The method comprises an alkali-heat treatment and continuous enzymolysis of the corn germ protein. The components with molecular weight less than 1000 Da in the active peptides obtained according to the present method account for more than 92%, and alanine-tyrosine (Ala-Tyr, AY) as the characteristic peptide fragments in the antihypertensive peptides accounts for more than 0.6%, so that the active peptides have a good ACE inhibitory activity in vitro as well as stability against temperature, pH and major gastrointestinal digestive enzymes, and have a significant effect of lowering blood pressure on spontaneous hypertension rats in vivo. The active peptides can be applied as a new functional nutrient to development and production of food, health food and pharmaceutical.

Method for preparing active peptides from corn germ proteins

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