. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 22.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2008 Aug 15;123(4):852–860. doi: 10.1002/ijc.23544

Table 2.

Intake of food groups and their component subgroups (servings/day) by cancer type from United States multi-center, population-based case-control study. Comparison of central tendencies.

	Control N = 687	Esophageal Adenocarcinoma N= 282	Adenocarcinoma Gastric Cardia N = 255	Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma N = 206	Other Gastric Cancer N = 352

	Mean (90%-10%)	Mean (90%-10%)	Mean (90%-10%)	Mean (90%-10%)	Mean (90%-10%)
Fruits	2.78 (3.90)	2.42 (3.74) ^c	2.60 (3.95)	2.19 (3.58) ^c	2.76 (3.89)
Citrus	0.78 (0.67)	0.72 (0.66)	0.72 (0.57)	0.59 (0.67) ^c	0.77 (1.47)
Non-Citrus	1.21 (3.06)	1.03 (2.65) ^b	1.09 (2.78)	0.89 (2.46) ^c	1.25 (2.17)
Fruit Juices	0.78 (1.30)	0.67 (1.28) ^b	0.80 (1.43)	0.71 (1.14)	0.75 (1.28)
Vegetables	3.45 (3.78)	3.12 (3.50) ^b	3.35 (3.43)	2.91 (3.40) ^c	3.35 (3.63)
Cruciferous	0.38 (0.66)	0.33 (0.57) ^a	0.35 (0.57)	0.30 (0.54) ^c	0.36 (0.64)
Deep yellow	0.51 (1.00)	0.42 (0.72) ^c	0.46 (0.81)	0.40 (0.73) ^c	0.50 (0.91)
Dark green	0.41 (0.96)	0.33 (0.73) ^c	0.37 (0.76)	0.31 (0.71) ^c	0.40 (0.89)
Starchy	0.58 (0.79)	0.63 (0.85) ^a	0.62 (0.80)	0.57 (0.77)	0.57 (0.78)
Raw	1.40 (2.27)	1.21 (1.99) ^b	1.35 (2.00)	1.11 (1.93) ^c	1.37 (2.14)
Legumes	0.14 (0.29)	0.13 (0.27)	0.15 (0.26)	0.14 (0.29)	0.13 (0.28)
Tomato products	0.54 (0.94)	0.50 (0.84)	0.52 (0.89)	0.46 (0.87) ^c	0.53 (0.90)

	Control	Esophageal Adenocarcinoma	Adenocarcinoma Gastric Cardia	Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma	Other Gastric Cancer

	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean

Total Fruit & Vegetable	6.23 (6.71)	5.53 (6.36) ^c	5.96 (6.45)	5.51 (5.87) ^c	6.11 (6.83)
Meat	2.05 (2.22)	2.28 (2.12) ^c	2.32 (2.41) ^c	2.25 (2.19) ^b	2.21 (2.53) ^b
Fish	0.26 (0.45)	0.25 (0.41)	0.27 (0.48)	0.23 (0.40)	0.26 (0.46)
Poultry	0.49 (0.75)	0.53 90.73)	0.57 (0.89) ^b	0.57 (0.95) ^a	0.56 (0.90) ^c
High Nitrite	0.43 (0.90)	0.52 (0.99) ^b	0.50 (1.06) ^a	0.60 (1.04) ^c	0.53 (1.09) ^c
Red Meat	0.54 (0.73)	0.66 (0.79) ^c	0.62 (0.72) ^b	0.57 (0.67)	0.58 (0.73)
Meat alternates	0.32 (0.83)	0.32 (0.83)	0.36 (0.89)	0.27 (0.68)	0.28 (0.68) ^a
Grains	2.78 (2.98)	2.90 (2.94)	3.01 (2.88) ^b	2.62 (2.68)	3.09 (3.03) ^c
Whole	0.72 (1.57)	0.64 (1.32) ^a	0.70 (1.58)	0.48 (1.29) ^c	0.66 (1.89)
Refined	1.69 (2.09)	1.88 (2.32) ^b	1.88 (2.28) ^b	1.82 (2.17) ^a	2.04 (2.51) ^c
Dairy	1.38 (2.26)	1.56 (2.48) ^b	1.55 (2.49) ^a	1.40 (2.25)	1.37 (2.18)
Low fat	0.28 (1.00)	0.21 (0.58)	0.22 (0.78)	0.18 (0.75) ^b	0.17 (0.57) ^c
High fat	1.10 (1.95)	1.35 (2.20) ^c	1.33 (2.33) ^c	1.20 (2.08)	1.20 (2.08)

p < 0.05 vs. controls

p < 0.01 vs. controls

p < 0.001 vs. controls