Table 3.

Correlations between BMI and daily dietary intake among adults living in cities, townships and rural area, Zhejiang province, China

	City		Township		Rural area
	r	p Value	r	p Value	r	p Value
Food
Rice and its products (g)	0.112**	0.004	0.028	0.419	−0.070	0.066
Wheat flour and its products (g)	0.084*	0.030	0.008	0.818	0.033	0.567
Tubers (g)	−0.086*	0.027	0.025	0.476	−0.030	0.671
Dried beans (g)	−0.078*	0.044	−0.002	0.951	−0.094	0.374
Bean products (g)	0.039	0.316	0.018	0.606	−0.002	0.973
Dark coloured vegetables (g)	−0.027	0.489	−0.012	0.735	−0.105*	0.011
Light coloured vegetables (g)	0.109**	0.005	0.019	0.582	−0.027	0.474
Pickled vegetables (g)	0.129**	0.001	0.057	0.100	−0.106	0.207
Fruits (g)	−0.024	0.544	0.053	0.121	0.130	0.174
Nut (g)	0.077*	0.046	0.041	0.233	0.023	0.814
Pork (g)	0.078*	0.043	0.018	0.596	0.087*	0.030
Poultry (g)	−0.022	0.575	0.010	0.762	−0.036	0.502
Milk and dairy products (g)	−0.116**	0.003	−0.030	0.381	0.083	0.651
Eggs (g)	0.047	0.228	−0.010	0.770	0.047	0.360
Fish and shrimp (g)	0.060	0.123	0.062	0.071	0.122*	0.014
Vegetable oil (g)	−0.036	0.347	0.088*	0.011	0.093*	0.019
Sugar and starch (g)	0.002	0.969	0.035	0.304	−0.063	0.330
Salt (g)	0.002	0.966	0.091**	0.008	0.112**	0.004
Chicken essence (g)	0.020	0.608	0.078*	0.024	0.124	0.165
Monosodium glutamate (g)	−0.009	0.813	0.087*	0.011	0.049	0.268
Sauce (g)	0.125**	0.001	0.189**	0.000	0.052	0.237

*p<0.05; **p<0.01.

BMI, body mass index.