Table 5.
Individual foods used as predictors at least 5 times in the trees generated using our 2 processes (similar/optimized) and for the 5 guidelines: Fruit and Vegetables, Fat, Saturated Fat, Salt, and Free Sugars. The frequency is the number of times that a food is used as a decision node across all trees (eg, if used 3 times in 5 trees each, it would be 15).
| Variables | Similar decision tree | Optimized decision tree | Total frequency | |||||||||
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FVb | Fat | SatFatc | Salt | Sugd | FV | Fat | SatFat | Salt | Sug |
|
| Individual food | ||||||||||||
|
|
Sausages |
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
20 |
|
|
Bananas raw | ✓ | ✓ |
|
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
|
19 |
|
|
Sausage roll | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
|
16 |
|
|
Cheese cheddar |
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
14 |
|
|
Milk chocolate |
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
|
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
|
12 |
|
|
Butter salted |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
✓ | 10 |
|
|
Cheese spreads |
|
✓ |
|
|
|
|
|
✓ |
|
|
8 |
|
|
Ice cream |
|
✓ |
|
|
|
|
|
✓ |
|
✓ | 8 |
|
|
Fruit drink |
|
|
|
|
✓ |
|
|
✓ |
|
✓ | 8 |
|
|
Chicken pieces |
|
✓ |
|
|
|
|
✓ |
|
|
|
8 |
|
|
Sex |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
|
|
|
✓ |
|
7 |
|
|
Potato crisps |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
Apples | ✓ |
|
|
|
|
✓ |
|
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
Milk whole |
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
|
|
|
✓ |
|
|
6 |
|
|
Beans baked |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
6 |
|
|
Onions | ✓ |
|
|
✓ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
Cola |
|
|
|
|
✓ |
|
|
|
|
✓ | 6 |
|
|
Apple juice unsweetened UHTa | ✓ |
|
|
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
|
|
✓ | 6 |
|
|
Olive oil | ✓ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
Orange juice unsweetened |
|
|
|
|
✓ |
|
|
|
|
✓ | 6 |
|
|
Orange juice unsweetened UHT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
✓ | 6 |
|
|
Bacon |
|
|
|
✓ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
Apple juice unsweetened |
|
|
|
|
|
✓ |
|
|
|
✓ | 5 |
| Demographic | ||||||||||||
|
|
Sex |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
|
|
|
✓ |
|
7 |
aUHT: Ultra-high-temperature processing.
bFV: fruits and vegetables.
cSatFat: saturated fat.
dSug: free sugars.