Table 2.
Factor loadings for the chewing function questionnaire from the 1- and 2-factor solution (weighted least squares with quartimin rotation).
| Food | Factor loadings shown when > 0.5 | ||
| 1-factor | 2-factor | ||
| 1 | 2 | ||
| TOFU | 0.39 | 1.12* | |
| RICE | 0.64 | 0.56 | |
| UDON Noodle | 0.69 | 0.55 | |
| Pudding | 0.40 | 0.74 | |
| Lettuce | 0.71 | 0.56 | |
| Shrimp TEMPURA | 0.78 | 0.62 | |
| Cucumber | 0.84 | 0.71 | |
| Baked RICE CAKE | 0.76 | 0.76 | |
| Beef steak | 0.79 | 0.75 | |
| PICKLED RADISH | 0.95 | 0.86 | |
| MARINATED OCTOPUS | 0.90 | 0.83 | |
| Hard Biscuit | 0.85 | 0.91 | |
| MILLET and RICE CAKE | 0.89 | 0.93 | |
| Hard RICE CRACKER | 0.89 | 0.96 | |
| Cockle | 0.89 | 0.87 | |
| Hard PICKLED RADISH | 0.94 | 0.91 | |
| Dried CUTTLEFISH | 0.92 | 0.96 | |
| Chewing gum | 0.67 | 0.72 | |
| Whole apple | 0.75 | 0.80 | |
| Cutting cotton thread | 0.70 | 0.77 | |
Only correlations of ≥ 0.5 are shown. Uppercase text indicates a Japanese food.
* For rotated solutions, the loadings might be slightly less than -1 or slightly greater than +1, because the factors are not orthogonal with an oblique rotation.