Table 2.

Factor loadings of rotated factor matrix and initial communalities for major pregnancy dietary patterns for 327 women at postpartum. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2011

	Dietary pattern*
Food/food group	‘Healthy’	‘Mixed’	‘Traditional’	h 2
Green leafy vegetables	0·488	0·027	−0·030	0·62
Legumes and other vegetables	0·658	−0·048	−0·003	0·62
Milk	0·395	0·090	0·039	0·66
Dairy products	0·421	0·158	0·008	0·73
Fruits	0·533	0·116	0·152	0·82
Red meat	0·309	−0·036	0·205	0·74
Chicken	0·320	−0·135	0·110	0·58
Herbal mate and tea	0·200	0·089	0·040	0·61
Fruit juice	0·348	−0·002	−0·003	0·64
Fish	0·173	0·133	−0·012	0·54
Eggs	−0·004	0·245	0·197	0·56
Pasta and Italian foods	0·133	0·242	0·064	0·66
Other fats	0·049	0·357	0·246	0·75
Cakes and cookies/crackers	0·192	0·309	0·193	0·80
Butter and margarine	0·140	0·381	−0·144	0·56
Fatty and processed meats	0·012	0·242	0·159	0·57
Snacks	−0·043	0·374	0·214	0·71
Soda	0·062	0·314	0·252	0·65
Sardines	−0·004	0·332	−0·080	0·52
Candy	0·261	0·491	0·028	0·71
Beer and wine	−0·055	0·193	−0·038	0·44
Rice	−0·029	0·016	0·427	0·56
Beans	0·049	−0·048	0·482	0·60
Sweets	0·093	0·160	0·288	0·76
Potato and cassava	0·221	0·271	0·384	0·73
Breads	0·137	0·060	0·381	0·72
Sugar	0·040	0·216	0·305	0·67
Coffee	−0·015	−0·057	0·287	0·50
Number of groups	9	10	7
Eigenvalue	3·37	2·05	1·67
% of variance explained	12·02	7·31	5·96
% of cumulative variance explained	12·02	19·33	25·30

^*Factor loadings ≥0·20 were included in each dietary pattern.