Table 1.
Food category factor loadings derived by principal components analysis in CHA CHA (n=1,973)
| Food Category Description | Sweets, dairy, coffee |
Fried noodles, dumplings, rice, and meat |
Vegetables, fruit, tofu, and nuts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% orange or grapefruit juice, other juices such as apple or grape |
0.15 | ||
| Apples or pears, bananas, oranges or tangerines, grapefruit, grapes, fresh peaches or plums, papayas or mango, cantaloupe, watermelon |
0.26 | ||
| Beef-roasted, broiled, or barbecued, including steak, roast beef, and hamburger; in stew or in soup; stir fried, meatballs |
0.19 | ||
| Beer, wine, liquor | |||
| Bread (including in sandwiches and hamburgers), bagel or English muffin, pancakes or waffles, cold breakfast cereal, cooked cereals such as oatmeal |
0.11 | −0.14 | 0.19 |
| Butter, margarine, salad dressing | 0.12 | ||
| Chinese sweet pastry such as bean paste cake or buns; deep fried wheat dough stick; Chinese sweet soups |
0.14 | ||
| Coffee | 0.32 | −0.11 | |
| Donuts, cake, cookies, pastry, pie, chocolate candy, other candy such as sesame candy, ice cream, syrup, jelly, jams |
0.32 | ||
| Eggs, boiled, fried, scrambled or stir-fried | 0.18 | ||
| Fish-including steamed, broiled or baked, other seafood such as shrimp or crab |
0.15 | ||
| French fries or other fried potatoes | 0.21 | ||
| Fried chicken-including nuggets and in sandwiches | 0.19 | ||
| Fried fish including fish sticks or sandwiches | 0.18 | ||
| Fried noodles, fried rice, fried wheat dough | 0.23 | ||
| Jook, soup or broth of any kind including noodle, vegetable or meat, Chinese sweet soup such as sweet green bean soup, or sweet taro soup |
−0.12 | 0.10 | 0.14 |
| Liver such as chicken liver, other organ meats | 0.12 | ||
| Macaroni, spaghetti, lasagna, and other Italian style pasta w/ tomato sauce |
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| Milk, cheese, yogurt | 0.31 | ||
| Other fowl, such as duck or squab | 0.19 | ||
| Peanuts or other nuts or seeds, peanut butter on bread or vegetables | −0.11 | 0.25 | |
| Pork-roasted, broiled or barbecued such as pork chops, roast pork or barbecued pork, pork-stir- fried, pork-steamed or in stew; spareribs |
0.15 | ||
| Rice | −0.13 | 0.11 | |
| Salty snacks such as potatoes chips, rice | 0.14 | ||
| crackers or popcorn | |||
| Sandwiches with ham, bacon, or sausage | |||
| Soda | 0.19 | ||
| Steamed dumpling, steamed buns | 0.10 | 0.11 | |
| Tofu, soy milk | 0.25 | ||
| Vegetables: Broccoli or Chinese broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage or Napa cabbage, dark green, leafy vegetables such as bok choy, spinach or mustard greens, carrots, raw or cooked, , celery, bell peppers, asparagus, tomatoes, bean sprouts, turnips or radishes, preserved vegetables such preserved mustard greens or preserved radishes, tossed salad, scallions or onions |
0.32 | ||
| Variance explained, % | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.1 |