Table 3. Factor loadings of the food groups in five principal dietary components (patterns) identified for children at the age of five.

Child's Diet Pattern	Healthy	Junk	Processed	Pasta & veg	Cereals & juice
(Variance explained)	(7.24%)	(6.72%)	(5.9%)	(5.8%)	(5.14%)
Fruit	0.678	−0.015	−0.057	0.048	−0.015
Citrus & other fruit	0.665	−0.065	−0.020	0.170	0.067
Vegetables	0.647	0.103	0.136	0.005	−0.245
Yoghurt	0.409	0.253	0.030	−0.097	−0.173
Wholemeal bread	0.400	−0.169	0.178	0.031	0.311
Cheese	0.378	0.034	−0.019	0.174	0.087
Eggs & egg product	0.303	0.069	0.123	0.289	−0.006
Puddings	−0.017	0.702	0.000	0.071	−0.131
Chips & roast potatoes	0.000	0.686	0.015	0.197	0.052
Sweets & chocolate	−0.013	0.621	0.144	−0.177	0.061
Soft drinks	0.152	0.499	0.216	−0.137	0.126
Red meat	0.108	−0.075	0.575	0.124	−0.230
Processed meat	−0.161	0.274	0.522	0.052	−0.145
Chicken	0.033	0.160	0.499	0.089	−0.014
Cakes & Biscuits	0.128	0.274	0.446	−0.057	0.281
White bread	−0.128	0.226	0.420	−0.081	0.152
Other milk	0.068	−0.140	0.412	−0.104	0.044
Pizza	−0.081	0.020	0.378	0.240	−0.043
Full fat spreads	0.105	0.122	0.326	−0.051	0.054
White fish	0.163	−0.060	0.312	0.149	−0.147
Salad vegetables	0.272	−0.057	0.008	0.638	−0.029
Other vegetables	0.161	0.098	−0.118	0.637	−0.183
Rice & Pasta	0.027	−0.047	0.160	0.526	0.007
Boiled potatoes	0.395	−0.003	0.203	−0.445	−0.211
Salad oils	0.031	−0.078	0.296	0.323	0.133
Other cereals	−0.084	0.173	0.086	0.097	0.559
Fruit juice	0.198	0.197	−0.114	0.022	0.495
Fibre cereals	0.110	0.124	0.073	0.113	−0.453
Beans and pulses	0.109	0.247	0.063	0.257	−0.373
Low fat spreads	0.228	−0.032	0.127	0.143	0.232

Loadings above 0.3 are shown in bold; loadings between 0.2 and 0.3 are shown in bold italics.