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. 2019 Aug 23;23(6):1020–1030. doi: 10.1017/S1368980019002349

Table 1.

Food group categories for the Mediterranean-like Diet Score

Food group Criteria for diet score calculation % Consumers (any)
BENEFICIAL COMPONENTS
Vegetables
 Includes:

  • Dark green & deep yellow vegetables (raw, cooked or canned)

  • Tomatoes (includes salsa, tomato sauce, purée, paste, and raw, cooked or canned)

  • Other vegetables & other starchy vegetables (raw, cooked or canned)

  • 100 % vegetable juice

 Excludes:

  • Ketchup

  • Potatoes (any)

  • Vegetable-based savoury snacks

  • Not 100 % vegetable juice

  • Olives

  • Pickles & pickled vegetables

  • Clamato juice

 1 point if consumption ≥median (90·58 g/d) 98·51
Legumes
 Includes:

  • Cooked dried beans; refried beans

  • Peas & lima beans

 Excludes:

  • Soya-based desserts

  • Textured vegetable protein

  • Soya nuts

  • Tofu & tempeh

 1 point if ate any legumes 37·62
Nuts
 Includes:

  • Nuts & seeds

  • Nut butters & seed butters

 1 point if ate any nuts 50·00
Fruits
 Includes:

  • 100 % fruit juices

  • Citrus fruit (fresh, canned or cooked)

  • Other fruits (fresh, frozen, cooked, canned or dried)

  • Avocados

 Excludes:

  • Not 100 % fruit juice

  • Jams/jellies

  • Fruit in baked goods, candy, granola bars, sweets or ice cream

  • Maraschino cherries

  • Fruit leather

 1 point if consumption ≥ median (177 g/d) 97·03
Fibre-rich whole grains*
 Includes:

  • Grains, flours & dry mixes

  • Bread, rolls & crackers

  • Quick breads, tortillas & pastas

  • Ready-to-eat cereal

  • Popcorn

 Excludes all:

  • Cakes, cookies & pies

  • Pastries & doughnuts

  • Snack bars

 1 point if consumption ≥ median (16·5 g/d) 74·75
Fish
 Includes:

  • Fresh, smoked & fried fish

  • Fried shellfish

 1 point if ate any fish 26·73
Non-fat/low-fat dairy
 Includes:

  • Reduced-fat, low-fat & non-fat: milk, cheese & yoghurt

  • Reduced-fat, low-fat & non-fat ready-to-drink flavoured milk

  • Sweetened flavoured milk beverage powders with non-fat dry milk

 Excludes:

  • Full-fat milk, flavoured milk, cheese or yoghurt

  • Dairy desserts & frozen dairy desserts

  • Cream

  • Dairy-based meal replacements or supplements

  • Infant formula

  • Non-dairy milk & cheese

  • Frozen non-dairy dessert

 1 point if consumption ≥ median (214·4 g/d) 97·52
Unsaturated fats (MUFA + PUFA):SFA ratio 1 point if ratio ≥ median (1·53) N/A
 Total MUFA + total PUFA:total SFA
DETRIMENTAL COMPONENTS
Red and processed meats
 Includes:

  • Beef, veal, lamb & pork

  • Cured pork, cold cuts, sausage

  • Game & organ meats

  • Meat-based savoury snacks

 Excludes:

  • Any poultry

 1 point if consumption < median (40·41 g/d) 85·64

N/A, not applicable.

*

Wholegrain/partial wholegrain foods were included if they had a fibre:total carbohydrate ratio of 0·11 (1·1 g fibre to 10 g carbohydrates)(47).