Table 5.

Food grouping used in factor analysis

Food group	Food items
Alcohol	Non-wine alcoholic beverages, beer, wine.
Bread whole	All types of whole wheat bread.
Breakfast cereals	Regular corn flakes.
Bulgur	Parboiled crushed wheat.
Dairy	Milk, yogurt, strained yogurt (labneh), cheese.
Dried fruits	Raisins, prunes, apricots, dates.
Eggs	All types of cooked eggs.
Fast food	Chawarma sandwiches, falafel sandwiches, hamburger.
Fat	Vegetable oil, butter, mayonnaise.
Fish	All types of cooked fish.
Fried potato	Potato fried, potato chips.
Fruit	Deep yellow orange fruits, banana, apple, strawberry, citrus, grapes, fruit juices fresh.
Fruit juices bottled	All types of sweetened processed fruit drinks.
Hot drinks	Cocoa, Nescafe, tea, turkish coffee.
Legumes	Lentils, beans, fava beans, chickpeas.
Meat	Meat, ‘kebbe’, cured meat.
Nuts and seeds	Salted roasted nuts and seeds.
Olives	Pickled olives.
Pizza and pies	Pizza, manaeesh.
Poultry	All types of cooked chicken.
Refined grains	Bread white, rice and rice products, cooked pasta.
Soda light	All types of soft drinks with sugar substitute.
Soda regular	All types of sweetened soft drinks.
Starchy vegetables	Potato, corn, peas.
Sweets	Arabic sweets, cakes, cookies, doughnuts, ice cream.
Vegetables	Dark green yellow vegetables, tomato, zucchini, eggplant, cauliflower.