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. 2015 Mar;11(2):139–146.

Table 3.

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between frequency of food consumption accessed by simplified food frequency questionnaire and quantitative amount of food intake assessed by mean of single 24 h recall and two food records based on gender

Male
Female
Total
Spearman’s correlation coefficients P Spearman’s correlation coefficients P Spearman’s correlation coefficients P
HVO 0.324 < 0.001 0.346 < 0.001 0.352 < 0.001
Non-HVO 0.315 < 0.007 0.322 0.006 0.319 0.008
Animal fat 0.192 0.231 0.116 0.314 0.205 0.211
Animal protein 0.308 0.008 0.278 0.009 0.294 0.007
Dairy products 0.457 < 0.001 0.467 < 0.001 0.467 < 0.001
Plant protein 0.473 < 0.001 0.491 < 0.001 0.480 < 0.001
Grains 0.183 0.227 0.127 0.270 0.226 0.134
Nuts 0.465 < 0.001 0.479 < 0.001 0.468 < 0.001
Fruits and vegetables 0.328 0.006 0.315 0.009 0.338 < 0.001
Fast foods 0.334 0.005 0.319 0.007 0.326 0.003
Sweets 0.108 0.315 0.097 0.441 0.113 0.174
Beverages 0.253 0.042 0.108 0.416 0.239 0.046
Pickles 0.091 0.433 0.084 0.508 0.105 0.378

HVO: Hydrogenated vegetable oil