Table 6.

Food groups and food items from the food frequency questionnaire.

Food groups	Food items
Meat	Lean pork/beef, chicken/duck without skin
Fatty meat	Meat with fat, chicken/duck with skin, streaky pork
Processed meat with high fat	Processed meat high in fat, that is, sausage, Thai style sausage, Chinese sausage, sour sausage, bacon, ham, Vietnamese ham
Processed meat with high salt	Processed meat high in salt, that is, meat floss, salted fish, salted sun-dried beef/pork/fish
Fish	Fresh-water fish, salt-water fish, and so forth
Shellfish and squid	Crustacean and mollusk seafood, that is, shrimp, crab, squid, clam, and so forth
Animal organ	Liver, blood jelly, intestine, gizzard, and so forth
Egg	Egg
Beans	Beans and its products, that is, mung bean, soybean, peanut, tofu, Kaset protein
Rice	Polished rice
Wheat	Whole wheat, whole grain bread
Glutinous rice	Sticky rice
Fried food	Fried pork, fried chicken, friend banana, friend potato, fried meat ball, fish cake, and so forth
Food with coconut milk	Any dishes cooked with coconut milk, that is, spicy curry with coconut milk, green beef curry with coconut milk, and so forth
Fermented fish/soybean	Condiment of fermented fish, southern style fish sauce, Thai style fermented soybean, and so forth
Chili sauce/dip	Thai dipping sauce, that is, roasted chili paste, shrimp paste sauce, green chili dip, fermented fish spicy dip
Fruit	Fresh fruits, that is, orange, banana, guava, ripe papaya, pineapple, longan, watermelon, sugar apple, grapes, rambutan
Milk	Milk
Soy milk	Soy milk
Beverage	Soda beverage
Bamboo shoots	Bamboo shoots
Vegetables	Chinese kale, cauliflower, cabbage, ivy gourd, sponge gourd, Thai water morning glory, green onion