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. 2025 Nov 4;22:136. doi: 10.1186/s12966-025-01818-4

Table 4.

Top five factors for best performing models to predict food intakes at eating occasions and daily diet quality, using mean absolute SHAP values

Outcome Occurrence Amount
Feature Mean SHAP Feature Mean SHAP
Fruits* - - Self-efficacy 0.0005
- - Food availability 0.0005
- - Cooking confidence 0.0005
- - Social support from family 0.0005
- - Food choice barriers 0.0005
Vegetables* - - SEIFA 0.0035
- - Income 0.0035
- - Social support from family 0.0034
- - Proximity and access to food destinations 0.0034
- - Age 0.0033
Grains Activity at consumption 0.0030 Food choice barriers 0.0008
Education 0.0024 Living situation 0.0008
Country of birth 0.0023 Age 0.0007
Food availability 0.0023 Social support from friends/colleagues 0.0007
Place of purchase 0.0022 Perceived time scarcity 0.0007
Meat and alternatives Cooking confidence 0.0010 Smoking status 0.0014
Food choice barriers 0.0009 Place of purchase 0.0014
Proximity and access to food destinations 0.0009 Food availability 0.0013
education 0.0008 Food choice barriers 0.0013
Country of birth 0.0008 Income 0.0013
Dairy and alternatives* - - Education 0.0012
- - PA 0.0011
- - Country of birth 0.0011
- - Food choice barriers 0.0011
- - Food availability 0.0011
Discretionary foods Place of purchase 0.0024 Place of consumption 0.0037
Social support from friends/colleagues 0.0023 Perceived time scarcity 0.0037
Education 0.0022 Social support from family 0.0036
Proximity and access to food destinations 0.0021 Age 0.0036
Country of birth 0.0019 Proximity and access to food destinations 0.0036
Daily diet quality* - - Cooking confidence 0.0814
- - Self-efficacy 0.0800
- - Food availability 0.0772
- - Perceived time scarcity 0.0760
- - Activity at consumption 0.0753

*The best performing for these outcomes are random forest model. They do not have two parts (occurrence and amount) like Hurdle models