Table 1.
Factor loadings of different food items in the eight latent dietary factors identified using factor analysis with Promax rotation
| Dietary patterns | Food items | Factor loadings coefficient* | Cumulative variance explained (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| “Snack and energy foods” | Energy bars | 0.87486 | 46.41% |
| Energy drinks | 0.85251 | ||
| Ice cream | 0.76687 | ||
| Chocolate | 0.74735 | ||
| Drinking yoghurt | 0.70387 | ||
| Milk drinks | 0.70378 | ||
| Milkshake | 0.66289 | ||
| Fruit salad | 0.63208 | ||
| Cheese sauce | 0.62704 | ||
| Cheese | 0.56129 | ||
| Chicken with skin | 0.47309 | ||
| Chips | 0.46882 | ||
| Cold meat | 0.46529 | ||
| Red meat | 0.43206 | ||
| Flame grilled fast food chicken | 0.42456 | ||
| Hot dogs | 0.40035 | ||
| Sausages | 0.39612 | ||
| Fizzy soft drinks | 0.38538 | ||
| Fruit juice | 0.35977 | ||
| Hamburgers | 0.31074 | ||
| Pizza | 0.30266 | ||
| Rusks | 0.30247 | ||
| Cooking oil | −0.33744 | ||
| “Fast foods and spreads” | Dripping | 0.76641 | 11.12% |
| Salad dressing low fat | 0.76498 | ||
| Fat Holsum | 0.74403 | ||
| Schnitzels | 0.70762 | ||
| Skimmed | 0.6791 | ||
| Chocolate spread | 0.60188 | ||
| Bunny chow | 0.58556 | ||
| Venison | 0.55576 | ||
| Fizzy diet soft drinks | 0.51667 | ||
| Fish steamed | 0.50548 | ||
| Whole wheat | 0.49309 | ||
| Dried fruit | 0.47822 | ||
| Red meat fat removed | 0.47779 | ||
| Cookies | 0.45296 | ||
| Fried fast food chicken | 0.4281 | ||
| Pasta | 0.42541 | ||
| Organ meat | 0.40937 | ||
| Nuts and peanuts | 0.36348 | ||
| Pizza | 0.34863 | ||
| Pies and sausage rolls | 0.34244 | ||
| Vetkoek | 0.33541 | ||
| Rusks | 0.32428 | ||
| Hot dogs | 0.31508 | ||
| Butter | 0.3194 | ||
| Fizzy soft drinks | −0.31292 | ||
| “Junk foods” | Butter | 0.62300 | 10.45% |
| Sweets | 0.60625 | ||
| Muffins | 0.59219 | ||
| Chips | 0.56772 | ||
| Mixed salad | 0.56106 | ||
| Fruit juice | 0.5389 | ||
| Fresh fruit | 0.53471 | ||
| Fizzy soft drinks | 0.42281 | ||
| Vetkoek | 0.39649 | ||
| Coffee creamer | 0.38703 | ||
| Cooking oil | 0.38482 | ||
| Hamburgers | 0.36097 | ||
| Cooked vegetables | 0.35781 | ||
| Cereals Rice Crispies | 0.31854 | ||
| Soft margarine | −0.77394 | ||
| “Protein rich foods” | Fried fish | 0.67237 | 6.35% |
| Fish tinned | 0.54825 | ||
| Fried fish in fat | 0.52289 | ||
| Eggs cooked or poached | 0.46767 | ||
| White brown bread | 0.43925 | ||
| Potato chips | 0.4079 | ||
| Chicken with skin | 0.40252 | ||
| Chicken without skin | −0.34525 | ||
| Red meat fat removed | −0.40646 | ||
| “Starch foods” | Potato | 0.66418 | 4.56% |
| Breakfast cereals | 0.52251 | ||
| Potato with fat | 0.47055 | ||
| Legumes | 0.45527 | ||
| Full cream | 0.40847 | ||
| Cooked vegetables | 0.36178 | ||
| Cheese sauce | 0.35377 | ||
| Pasta | 0.32992 | ||
| Jam | 0.32221 | ||
| “Nuts and rice foods” | Peanut butter | 0.55276 | 3.63% |
| Nuts and peanuts | 0.39124 | ||
| Rice mealie rice | 0.34955 | ||
| “Vegetable rich foods” | Vegetables | 0.61485 | 3.13% |
| Organ meat | 0.40243 | ||
| Butter | −0.34338 | ||
| “Alcoholic drinks” | Shooters | 0.80795 | 2.67% |
| Cocktails | 0.79207 |
*Factor loadings ≥3.0 or ≤ −3.0. Food groups are sorted by size of loading coefficients