Table 1.

Factor loading matrix for major dietary patterns identified by principal component analysis^a

	Healthy Japanese dietary pattern	Animal food pattern	Westernized breakfast pattern
Carrots/pumpkin	0.78	–	–
Mushrooms	0.73	–	–
Green leaves vegetables	0.69	–	–
Cabbage/Chinese cabbage	0.68	0.17	–
Japanese radish/turnip	0.68	–	–
Other root vegetables	0.67	–	–
Tofu/atsuageb	0.50	–	-0.16
Seaweeds	0.48	0.16	-0.16
Potates	0.46	–	–
Other fruit	0.37	–	0.21
Persimmons/strawberries/kiwifruit	0.31	–	–
Nattoc	0.30	–	–
Citrus fruit	0.25	–	–
Green tea	0.22	–	–
100% fruit and vegetable juice	-0.19	–	0.17
Buckwheat noodles	-0.25	0.18	–
Cola drink/soft drink	-0.29	–	0.15
Chinese noodles	-0.44	–	–
Squid/octopus/shrimp/shellfish	-0.16	0.47	-0.21
Canned tuna	–	0.44	–
Lean fish	0.15	0.43	–
Pork/beef	–	0.43	–
Dried fish/salted fish	–	0.41	-0.23
Ham/sausage/bacon	–	0.37	–
Chicken	–	0.37	–
Oily fish	–	0.33	-0.29
Lettuces/cabbage (raw)	0.21	0.30	0.17
Tomatoes	0.19	0.29	–
Mayonnaise/dressing	–	0.29	0.28
Small fish with bones	0.20	0.28	-0.23
Liver	–	0.27	–
Egg	–	0.21	0.21
Black tea/oolong tea	–	0.19	–
Other pickles	–	0.18	–
Rice	–	-0.67	-0.34
Bread	–	–	0.57
Western-type confectioneries	–	–	0.56
Milk and yogurt	–	–	0.36
Rice crackers/rice cake/okonomiyakid	–	–	0.36
Japanese confectioneries	–	–	0.36
Ice cream	-0.19	–	0.32
Miso soup	–	–	-0.18
Pickled green leaves vegetables	0.18	0.18	-0.24
Sake	–	–	-0.26
Beer	-0.21	–	-0.41
Shochu	-0.24	–	-0.45

^aFactor loading less than ±0.15 is represented by a dash for simplicity.

Omitted in the table were food items with factor loadings less than 0.15 for all dietary patterns (coffee, Japanese wheat noodles, low-fat milk and yogurt, spaghetti and macaroni, whisky and wine).

^bDeep-fried tofu.

^cFermented soybeans.

^dMeat/fish and vegetables pancake.