Table 2. Factor loadings of food items in dietary pattern 1.

Food items	Factor loadingsa
Rice	0.041
Bread	0.008
Noodle	−0.014
Bread & margarine	−0.003
Bread & butter	0.073
Milk	0.337
Yogurt	0.337
Miso	0.326
Chilled tofu & toppings, boiled tofu	0.294
Natto (fermented soybeans), soya beans (other cooked beans)	0.455
Egg	0.223
Chicken	0.139
Beef, pork	0.216
Liver	0.045
Ham, sausage, salami, bacon	0.144
Fish (eg, sashimi, boiled fish, and grilled fish)	0.470
Small fish eaten with its bone	0.473
Canned tuna	0.146
Squid, shrimp, crab, octopus	0.173
Shellfish (eg, clam and oyster)	0.190
Cod roe, salmon roe	0.101
Fish paste cake, steamed seasoned fish paste	0.263
Deep-fried tofu with thinly sliced vegetables, deep-fried bean curd, deep-fried tofu	0.440
Potato, taro, sweet potato	0.599
Pumpkin	0.586
Carrot	0.650
Broccoli	0.491
Green leafy vegetables (eg, spinach, Japanese mustard spinach, and edible chrysanthemum)	0.702
Green & yellow vegetables (eg, green pepper and green beans)	0.602
Cabbage	0.531
Radish (boiled & grated radish)	0.558
Dried radish	0.330
Burdock, bamboo shoots	0.399
Other light-colored vegetables (eg, cucumber, onion, bean sprouts, Chinese cabbage, and lettuce)	0.625
Mushroom (eg, shiitake, enoki, and shimeji)	0.573
Seaweed (eg, hijiki and kelp)	0.476
Mayonnaise (include potato salad)	0.083
Deep fried food	0.098
Stir fry food (dish made with small amount of oil)	0.318
Mandarin orange, orange, grapefruit	0.495
Other fruits (eg, strawberry, kiwi, apple, watermelon)	0.564
Peanuts, almond	0.280
Western confectionary (eg, cake and creampuff)	0.170
Japanese confectionary (eg, steamed bun)	0.348
Green tea	0.283
Coffee	0.057

^aFactor loadings represent the correlation of each food item with dietary pattern 1 score.