Letters to the Editor Reply to C Drossard et al Dear Sir:

In multivariate analyses, our article showed that a high intake of anthocyanins was associated with an 8 % reduction in risk of hyper-tension and that the magnitude of the reduction in risk was greater in participants aged,60 y (1). In food-based analyses, we also showed that the effect was derived from consumption of the predominant anthocyanin source in the participants ’ diet, blueberries, which ac-counted for 31–38 % of intake across the cohorts (relative risk: 0.90; 95 % CI: 0.81, 0.98; P 0.02) (1). We, too, were initially surprised that bananas were a source of an-thocyanins and contributed 14–20 % of the anthocyanin intake across our cohorts; however, as Drossard et al clearly point out, these values are present in the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) database (2, 3). The present study focused on the construction of a flavonoid database primarily derived from this USDA database (2). In devel-oping our database, values that were present in the USDA databas