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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Dec;88(6):1653–1662. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2008.26398

TABLE 2.

Correlation coefficients of the food pattern score and the simplified food pattern score with food intake or flavonols in the Multiethnic Cohort study

Food pattern
score		 Simplified food
pattern score1
Food group pattern
 Tea 0.90 0.54
 Cabbages 0.37 0.62
 Fresh fruit 0.30 0.58
 Wine 0.13 0.44
 Quercetin 0.79 0.66
 Kaempferol 0.82 0.64
 Myricetin 0.87 0.64
Food items pattern
 Chili 0.05 0.38
 Dark leafy greens 0.40 0.47
 Apples and
 applesauce		 0.30 0.48
 Red wine 0.14 0.44
 Black tea 0.77 0.45
 Quercetin 0.79 0.62
 Kaempferol 0.78 0.53
 Myricetin 0.67 0.52
1

A linear combination of standardized intakes of the food groups tea, cabbage, fresh fruit, and red wine for the food group pattern or a linear combination of the standardized intakes of the food items black tea, dark leafy greens, apples and applesauce, red wine, and chili for the food items pattern.