Table 2.
Food Groups | PCA-Derived Dietary Patterns | Polish-aMED Score | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Prudent | Westernized Traditional | Sweet Dairy | ||
Whole grain products | 0.65 | −0.04 | −0.03 | 0.49 * |
Fruits | 0.64 | 0.16 | 0.24 | 0.25 * |
Nuts and seeds | 0.57 | 0.05 | 0.12 | 0.54 * |
Vegetables | 0.49 | 0.43 | 0.20 | 0.50 * |
Fish | 0.48 | 0.23 | 0.08 | 0.41 |
Legumes | 0.47 | 0.04 | 0.26 | 0.41 * |
Fruit, vegetable, vegetable-fruit juices | 0.32 | 0.20 | 0.26 | 0.21 * |
Refined grains products | −0.54 | 0.39 | 0.35 | −0.21 * |
Sugar, honey, and sweets | −0.45 | 0.37 | 0.37 | −0.09 |
Red and processed meats | 0.08 | 0.63 | 0.07 | −0.00 |
White meat | 0.19 | 0.56 | −0.01 | 0.13 * |
Potatoes | −0.13 | 0.51 | 0.13 | −0.02 |
Other fats | −0.18 | 0.45 | −0.39 | −0.13 * |
Sweetened beverages and energy drinks | 0.10 | 0.38 | 0.23 | 0.14 * |
Animal fats | −0.11 | 0.01 | 0.66 | 0.06 |
Milk, fermented milk drinks, and curd cheese | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.49 | 0.17 * |
Sweetened milk drinks and flavored homogenized cheese | −0.02 | 0.01 | 0.45 | 0.07 |
Eggs | 0.12 | 0.17 | 0.43 | 0.14 * |
Cheese | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.38 | 0.19 * |
Breakfast cereals | 0.10 | −0.25 | 0.37 | 0.10 * |
Vegetable oils | 0.11 | 0.24 | 0.33 | 0.11 * |
Dried fruit and preserves | 0.23 | 0.02 | 0.32 | 0.15 * |
Alcohol | 0.05 | 0.12 | 0.01 | 0.21 * |
Ratio of vegetable oils to animal fat | NA | NA | NA | 0.11 * |
Share in explaining the variance (%) | 15 | 10 | 6 | NA |
Polish-aMED—Polish-adapted Mediterranean diet (range of points: 0–9); bolded values are marked for the main components of PCA-derived dietary patterns with absolute loadings > |0.3| and for nine components of the Polish-aMED score; * p < 0.05, test of significance for Pearson’s correlation coefficients; NA—not applied.