Table 1.

Food groups used for dietary pattern analysis.

Food Group	Food Items in Food Group
Beverages	Fruit juice, water, fizzy drinks, hot drinks (including tea, coffee, hot chocolate, Ovaltine, Milo, Horlicks, Bournvita, Nesquik)
Alcoholic beverages	All alcoholic beverages
Fruit	All fruits, including dried and canned varieties
Vegetables	All vegetables, including potatoes and legumes
Other foods	Other foods, including nuts, herbs and spices, soups, sauces and condiments, and miscellaneous foods such as pizza, biscuits, and cake
Sugars, snacks and preserves	Typical Seychellois snacks: corn snacks, chilli cakes, cassava, as well as other snacks including crisps, chocolate, and sweets
Milk and milk products	All varieties of milk and milk products (yogurt, cheese, milk, ice cream)
Meat products and dishes	Bacon, sausages, frankfurters, burgers, ham, pate, processed meat, black pudding, meat patties, meat organs, pasta with meat, noodles with meat
Fats and oils	Fat and oils used for frying foods
White meat	Chicken
Eggs	Eggs
Red meat	Beef, pork, lamb
Cereals and cereal products	All cereals, including porridge, oatmeal, cornflakes, other breakfast cereals, white bread, brown bread, rice
White fish	All white fish including red snapper, grouper, parrot fish, emperor fish, job, shark, salted fish and spinefoot shoemaker
Fatty fish/oily fish	All fatty fish, including mackerel, tinned tuna, tinned sardines, tuna, karang, bonito, barracuda
Crustaceans	All crustaceans, including prawns, crab and lobster
Other fish and fish products	All other varieties of fish and fish dishes including other fish, bouillon bred with fish, bouillon blan with fish, fish chutney
Molluscs	Octopus