Table 1.
Food groups used in the principal component analysis
| Food groups | Subgroups |
|---|---|
| Processed meat | Sausage, Kielbasa |
| Red meat | Lamp, Beef, Ground meat |
| Organ meats | Heart, Liver and Kidney, (Beef) Lamb-tongue, (Beef) Lamb-brain, (Beef) Lamb tripe, Meat of sheep head, Leg of lamb |
| Fish | Fish, Canned fish |
| Skinless poultry | Chicken no skin |
| Poultry-skin | Chicken with skin |
| Eggs | Egg |
| Low fat dairy | Low fat milk, Without fat milk, Yogurt, Kashk, Cheese |
| High fat diary | Milk high fat, Cocoa milk, Chocolate milk, Yogurt-plain-whole milk, Cream, Ice cream, Cheese-cream |
| Yogurt drink | Doogh* |
| Soft drink | Soft drink |
| Tea | Tea |
| Coffee | Coffee |
| Fruits | Cantaloupe, Melon, Watermelon, Pear, Apricot, Cherry, Apple, Peach, Nectarine plum, Fig, Grape, Kiwi, Grapefruit, Orange, Persimmon, Tangerine, Pomegranate, Date, Black cherry, Strawberry, Banana, Sweet lemon, Lemon Cranberry, Pineapple, Raisin, Mulberry |
| Natural juices | Grapefruit juice, Orange juice, Apple juice, Melon juice |
| Canned fruits | Canned fruits, Canned pineapple |
| Dried fruits | Dried fig, Dried peach, Dried apricot, Dried mulberry |
| Vegetables | Pea, String Bean, vegetable, Pumpkin, Squash, Eggplant, Celery, Cucumber, Lettuce, Tomato, Cauliflower, Sweet peppers, Raw, Raw carrot, Cooked carrot, Raw onion, Fried onion, Cabbage, Mushroom, Maize spinach, Cooked spinach, Turnip, Cooked |
| Nuts | Seeds, Walnuts pistachios, Hazelnuts, Almonds. (Pumpkin, Sunflower, Watermelon) |
| Legumes | Lentils, Beans, Chick pea, Broad bean, Soya, Bean-mung, Pea |
| Whole grains | Barbari bread, Sangak bread, Taftoon bread, Cooked barley, Oat |
| Refined grains | Lavash bread, Baguettes, Toast, Rice, Spaghetti Vermicelli, Pasta, Wheat flour, Biscuits, |
| Fast foods | Fried potato, Hamburger, Pizza |
| Mayonnaise | Mayonnaise |
| Tomato sauce | Tomato sauce |
| Salty snacks | Crackers, Cheese puffs, Chips |
| Olive | Olive seed, Olive oil |
| Sugar-sweets-desserts | Cake, Sugar, Honey, Jam, Sweets, Gaz, Candy Sohan, Chocolate, Caramel, Halva, Donuts, |
| Hydrogenated fats | Solid oil, Fat animal, Animal oil, Butter, Margarine |
| Vegetables oils | Vegetable oil |
| Potato | Cooked potato |
| Garlic | Garlic |
| Condiments | Juice lime, Pepper black |
| Salt | Salt |
| Pickles | Pickles |
| Broth | Broth |
*
Doogh is a cold yogurt-based beverage.