Factor Loading Matrix¹ for Dietary Patterns Derived from Principle component Analysis

	“Balanced” diet	“Animal protein”	“Root vegetable”
Tea	-	0.48	-
Big fish (fresh water)	-	0.44	-
Eggs (hen eggs)	-	0.49	-
Milk	-	0.49	-
Poultry (fowl)	-	0.47	-
Puffed rice	-	0.22	-
Lentil	-	0.37	-
Wheat bread (brown)	−0.16	0.49	-
Beef or mutton	0.21	0.45	-
Bitter gourd (a kind of squash)	0.43	0.18	0.28
Banana	0.16	0.47	-
Jack Fruit	0.30	0.22	-
Watermelon	0.20	0.29	-
Mango	0.39	0.22	-
Steamed rice	0.24	−0.29	-
Guava	0.27	-	-
Beans (scarlet runner)	0.62	-	-
Potato	0.22	-	-
Bottle gourd (a kind of squash)	0.46	-	-
Small fish (fresh water)	0.39	-	-
Eggplant	0.33	-	0.17
Cauliflower	0.64	-	0.16
Parwar/patol (a kind of squash)	0.22	0.17	0.37
Green papaya	0.22	-	0.35
Cabbage	0.51	-	0.24
Okra	0.29	-	0.37
Yam	0.31	-	0.26
Spinach	0.24	-	0.25
Dried fish	-	-	0.22
Ridge gourd/jhinga (a kind of squash)	-	-	0.53
Snake gourd/chachinga (a kind of squash)	-	-	0.57
Ghosala/dhundal (a kind of squash)	-	-	0.51
Radish	-	-	0.48
Spinach stalks	-	-	0.48
Sweet potato	-	-	0.29
Water Rice	-	-	0.17
Pumpkin	-	-	0.39
Tomato	-	-	-
Salted fish	-	-	-

¹Factor loadings represent the correlation between factor scores and intakes of food items. Positive Factor loadings ≤ 0.15 and negative factor loadings ≥ −0.15 were omitted in the table for simplicity