Table 1.
Food Groups | PCA-Derived Dietary Patterns | ‘Polish-aMED’ Score | ||
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‘Prudent’ | ‘Non-Healthy’ | ‘Dressings and Sweetened-Low-Fat Dairy’ | ||
Vegetables | 0.55 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.49 * |
Fruits | 0.55 | 0.02 | −0.04 | 0.46 * |
Milk, fermented milk drinks, curd cheese | 0.54 | 0.00 | 0.28 | 0.28 * |
Whole grain products | 0.53 | −0.42 | −0.03 | 0.47 * |
Fish | 0.51 | −0.05 | 0.05 | 0.34 * |
Legumes | 0.48 | −0.01 | −0.14 | 0.33 * |
Nuts and seeds | 0.46 | −0.28 | −0.16 | 0.44 * |
Vegetable oils (including olive oil) | 0.44 | 0.27 | −0.04 | 0.30 * |
Eggs | 0.43 | 0.24 | −0.01 | 0.18 * |
Fruit, vegetable, vegetable-fruit juices | 0.39 | 0.19 | 0.06 | 0.12 * |
Cereals | 0.35 | −0.07 | 0.19 | 0.18 * |
Cheese | 0.31 | 0.30 | 0.08 | 0.11 * |
White meat | 0.30 | 0.28 | 0.22 | 0.11 * |
Refined grain products | −0.22 | 0.71 | 0.12 | −0.32 * |
Sugar, honey and sweets | −0.02 | 0.60 | 0.09 | −0.10 * |
Red and processed meats | 0.11 | 0.56 | 0.04 | −0.18 * |
Potatoes | 0.03 | 0.52 | 0.04 | −0.10 * |
Animal fats | 0.12 | 0.47 | −0.65 | −0.16 * |
Sweetened beverages, energy drinks | 0.03 | 0.35 | −0.13 | −0.02 |
Other edible fats (margarine, mayonnaise, dressings) | −0.06 | 0.17 | 0.81 | −0.01 |
Sweetened milk drinks and flavoured homogenized cheese | 0.28 | 0.22 | 0.39 | 0.05 |
Ratio of vegetable oils to animal fat | NA | NA | NA | 0.37 |
Share in explaining the variance (%) | 14 | 12 | 7 | NA |
‘Polish-aMED’—‘Polish-adapted Mediterranean Diet’ (range of points: 0–8); NA—not applied; bolded values are marked for the main components of PCA-derived dietary patterns with absolute loadings ≥0.3 and for eight components of the ‘Polish-aMED’ score; * p < 0.05, test of significance for Pearson’s correlation coefficients.