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. 2019 Mar 13;11(1):19–27. doi: 10.15171/jcvtr.2019.04

Table 1. Food grouping used in factor analysis .

Food groups Food items
Fast food Pizza, sausages, hamburger
Butter Butter, cream
Sweets and desserts Chocolates, cookies, cakes, confections, jam, biscuits
Soft drink Soft drink, Industrial fruit juice
Canned food Canned food
Dairy Milk (high fat milk), yoghurt, cheese
Red meats Beef, lamb, beef liver, beef kidney, beef heart, egg
Poultry Chicken
Fish Fish
Legumes Legumes, beans, peas, lima beans, lentil, soy
Vegetables Green leafy vegetables, tomato, carrots, lettuce, garlic, potato, cooked vegetable, dried vegetables
Fruit Pears, apricots, cherries, apples, raisins or grapes, bananas, cantaloupe, watermelon, oranges, grapefruit, kiwi, strawberries, peaches, nectarine, tangerine, mulberry, plums, persimmons, pomegranates, lemons, pineapples, fresh figs, dates, dried figs, dried dates, other dried fruit
Bread Bread
Rice Rice
Nuts Peanuts, almonds, pistachios, hazelnuts, roasted seeds, walnuts
Animal fat Animal fat, hydrogenated fat, skin of poultry, tallow
Vegetable oil Vegetable oil, olive oil
Pickles Pickles, salted vegetables