Table 5.

Food groupings based on culinary usage and nutrient content

Food group	Food items
Sweetened beverages	All sweetened carbonated soda and sugar-sweetened fruit juices (regular soda, sugar preserved condensed juices, packed juice, chocolate powder, hot chocolate)
Fast food	French fries, sandwich shawarma, hamburger, falafel, nuggets, broasted chicken, escalope, sandwiches
Salty snacks	chips, salty crackers, pretzels, popcorn
Sweets	Milkshakes, yogurt with fruits, ice cream (dairy based) and all ice cream, puddings, frozen yogurt, chocolates, cookies, cakes, plain sugar, pastries, traditional desserts and sweets, jam, chocolate spread, biscuits (plain and sweetened), gello, popsicle
Meat, fish, poultry, eggs	Eggs, beef, fish, poultry
Composite dishes	Meat and poultry-based traditional dishes including soup, legume-based traditional dishes, rice and rice-based dishes, pasta-based dishes
Condiments	Pickles, chicken/meat stock, ground thyme, other condiments
Bread and cereals	Breads, grains, cereals, toast, bread sticks, croissant, bledine cereal, cerelac wheat, corn flakes (plain corn flakes, sweetened corn flakes)
Dairy products	Milk, dairy (cheese, labneh-pressed yogurt) as well as plain yogurt
Pizza pie	Mankouche (Lebanese version of pizza prepared with thyme or cheese), pizza, pies
Tea	Tea
Vegetables and fruits	Vegetables all vegetables and salads, all fruits
Added fats and oils	All added fats and oils including olives oil, olives, peanut butter, tarator (tahineh-based salad dressing)
Starchy food	Starchy vegetables (corn, parsnips, green peas, potato, pumpkin, squash, legumes)
Nuts and seeds	All raw nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachio nuts, pine nuts)