Replacing animal products with vegetable products in vegetarian-diet trials reduces blood pressure in normotensive and hypertensive individuals (101, 102). Lower intakes of fat and higher intakes of dietary fiber and minerals, such as potassium and magnesium, are aspects of a high-vegetable, high-fruit diet believed to reduce blood pressure. However, results of trials testing these nutrients, usually as dietary supplements, have been inconsistent (103). One crossover study took a more holistic, rather than supplement-based, approach toward examining the effect of fiber from fruit and vegetables. Men consumed a high-fiber diet of fruit and vegetables and a lower-fiber diet of fruit and vegetable juices in a randomized cross-over study by Kelsay et al (104). Each diet was consumed for 26 d. Men who had diastolic blood pressures of 80 mm Hg when consuming the lower-fiber diet had lower blood pressures when consuming the high-fiber diet.