Table 1.

Coefficients of 22 food types in the first principal component (with varimax rotation to improve interpretability), which represent a Western dietary pattern. Food types are ordered in descending order of coefficients. Food types with large coefficients are the ones that are common in the dietary pattern and those with small coefficients are uncommon.

Food type	Principal component coefficients
Animal products	0.39
Meat	0.36
Animal fats	0.34
Milk, excluding butter	0.34
Offals	0.30
Alcoholic beverages	0.29
Sugar and sweeteners	0.25
Eggs	0.24
Stimulants	0.23
Total calories	0.20
Vegetable oils	0.08
Fish and seafood	0.05
Vegetables	0.03
Tree nuts	0.02
Fruits, excluding wine	−0.05
Other aquatic products	−0.06
Spices	−0.07
Vegetal products	−0.09
Oil crops	−0.10
Starchy roots	−0.10
Cereals (excluding beer)	−0.16
Pulses	−0.19