Table 2.

Principal loadings of three major dietary patterns identified among Filipino adults.^a

Food Groups	Meat and Sweetened Beverages Pattern	Rice and Fish Pattern	Fruit, Vegetables, and Snack Pattern
Meat (mainly pork and poultry)	0.478
Sweetened beverages	0.4721
Rice, noodles & pasta (mainly rice)		0.5688
Oils (mainly coconut oil)		0.4626
Fish & shellfish		0.3935
Eggs & egg dishes		0.2746
Other grains (mainly corn grits)		−0.4187
Fruit			0.3761
Nut/pea/bean-based mixed dishes (mainly fried green pea)			0.3412
Sugar, syrups, preserves, jams, jellies (mainly sugar)			0.3188
Fat (mainly coconut cream)			0.3037
Savory snacks (e.g. corn chips, potato chips, fish cracker)			0.2824
Vegetables			0.2775
Non-alcoholic beverages (mainly coconut water, pure coffee, tea)			0.2682

^aExtraction method: Principal component analysis (PCA) with varimax rotation. Only factor loadings > 0.25 or < −0.25 are shown in the table