Table 2.

Weekly intake of 68 food and beverage items and rotated factor loadings for items^a.

Food and beverage items	Servings per week (SD)		Rotated factor loadings
			Pattern 1 Healthy	Pattern 2 Modified Western – Salty	Pattern 3 Modified Western – Sweet
Banana	2.7	(2.73)	0.16	−0.19	0.32b
Apple, pear	2.8	(3.40)	0.32	−0.14	0.14
Orange, grapefruit, tangerine, clementine	2.3	(2.94)	0.35	−0.12	0.08
Peach, nectarine	0.6	(1.34)	0.33	−0.08	−0.06
Canned fruit, fruit sauce, fruit salad	0.7	(1.60)	−0.02	0.06	0.30
Apricot	0.2	(0.88)	0.34	−0.07	−0.07
Cantaloupe	0.5	(0.90)	0.45	−0.03	0.02
Watermelon, honeydew melon	0.4	(0.66)	0.41	−0.03	−0.03
Strawberry, raspberry, blueberry	1.1	(1.50)	0.32	−0.05	0.23
Other fresh fruit	1.6	(1.89)	0.47	−0.05	0.22
Potato, fried or pan fried	0.8	(1.00)	−0.08	0.52	−0.04
Potato, not fried	2.6	(2.30)	−0.12	0.30	0.42
Sweet potato	0.2	(0.61)	0.07	−0.02	0.16
Baked bean, other legume or lentil	0.9	(1.16)	0.33	−0.06	0.09
Broccoli	1.3	(1.36)	0.44	−0.07	0.31
Carrot	2.1	(1.89)	0.29	0.03	0.49
Spinach	0.5	(0.76)	0.46	−0.09	0.04
Coleslaw, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussel sprout	0.9	(1.10)	0.35	0.05	0.18
Dark lettuce	2.4	(2.26)	0.62	0.08	0.05
Tomato	3.0	(2.36)	0.52	0.18	0.05
Sweet red pepper	0.9	(1.35)	0.47	0.06	0.04
Other vegetable	2.8	(2.16)	0.39	0.11	0.13
Tomato soup or cream of tomato	0.4	(0.70)	0.04	0.23	0.28
Vegetable soup	1.3	(1.51)	0.22	0.10	0.40
Tofu, soybean	0.2	(0.62)	0.16	−0.17	0.17
Ketchup, salsa	0.8	(1.32)	−0.08	0.36	0.24
Salad dressing, mayonnaise (excl. low fat)	2.3	(2.31)	0.45	0.26	0.09
Beef	1.9	(1.42)	−0.09	0.50	0.13
Pork	1.1	(0.90)	0.03	0.32	0.13
Chicken, turkey or other poultry	1.9	(1.07)	0.21	0.15	0.13
Veal, lamb	0.4	(0.60)	0.38	0.04	−0.16
Liver	0.2	(0.30)	0.14	0.12	0.07
Hot-dog or sausage	0.4	(0.60)	−0.05	0.44	−0.03
BBQ	1.1	(1.41)	0.21	0.35	−0.12
Cold cuts	1.3	(1.66)	−0.01	0.40	0.04
Bacon, breakfast sausage	0.5	(0.94)	−0.10	0.51	0.05
Fish, seafood	1.3	(1.00)	0.41	−0.13	0.08
Egg, omelet or quiche	1.8	(1.74)	0	0.30	0.14
Cheese	3.9	(2.79)	0.26	0.26	0.11
Pasta with tomato sauce	1.1	(0.93)	0.13	0.30	−0.07
Pasta with cheese without tomato sauce	0.2	(0.43)	−0.03	0.14	−0.01
Pizza	0.4	(0.57)	0.03	0.25	−0.07
Cookie, muffin	2.5	(3.40)	−0.15	0.11	0.34
White bread	6.0	(8.55)	−0.25	0.30	−0.15
Brown bread	5.7	(7.09)	0.11	−0.27	0.28
Rice	1.6	(1.74)	0.20	−0.13	0.04
Donut, cake, pastry and pie	1.5	(2.37)	−0.21	0.26	0.33
Oatmeal or cream of wheat	0.5	(1.30)	0.06	−0.14	0.30
Breakfast cereal	2.0	(2.52)	0.09	−0.19	0.40
Real fruit juice	3.8	(4.23)	0.03	0.02	0.19
Tomato or vegetable juice	1.2	(1.90)	0.03	0.22	0.25
Glass of milk or milk in cereal	4.7	(5.95)	0.03	−0.10	0.42
Cream or milk in coffee or tea	12.0	(14.14)	−0.11	0.31	0
Dark carbonated soft drink	2.6	(6.93)	−0.17	0.37	0.06
Other carbonated soft drink	0.9	(2.65)	−0.07	0.09	0.01
Fried food	0.3	(0.57)	0.04	0.20	0
Nut or peanut butter	2.8	(2.87)	0.15	−0.04	0.33
Chips, corn chips, popcorn, tortilla	0.9	(1.61)	−0.02	0.38	0.08
Chocolate	0.8	(1.75)	0.04	0.18	0.17
Yogurt	2.4	(3.00)	0.20	−0.17	0.31
Ice cream	0.8	(1.42)	−0.01	0.23	0.27
Fat of beef or pork	1.6	(34.92)	−0.04	−0.08	0
Meat slightly blackened	1.0	(1.82)	0.12	0.47	−0.05
Coffee	15.3	(14.91)	−0.05	0.28	−0.05
Black tea	2.6	(7.01)	0	0.05	0.12
Green tea	1.3	(4.16)	0.15	−0.09	0.14
Beer	3.8	(9.82)	−0.08	0.18	−0.09
Wine	4.3	(7.02)	0.32	0.02	−0.29
Proportion of variance explained (%)			7.0	5.4	3.2
Cumulative variance explained (%)			7.0	12.4	15.6

^aVariables were considered to load on a component if they had an absolute factor loading ≥0.2 and are presented in bold.

^bVariables were considered to load on a component if they had an absolute factor loading ≥0.2.