Table 3.

Factor Loadings after Orthogonal Rotation on Idenfied Dietary Patterns of Food and Beverage Groups^{a, b} (N = 3373)

Food and beverage groupsc	“Sugar-sweetened beverage and snack” pattern	“Chinese traditional” pattern	“Health conscious” pattern	“Snack” pattern
Fruits		0.67
Vegetables		0.77
Dark-green vegetables		0.68
Other dark-color vegetables		0.66
Fresh fruit/vegetable juice	0.39		0.45
Soybean milk	0.48		0.44
Milk			0.42
Yogurt or other dairy products			0.36
Flavored milk drinks	0.58
Carbonated drinks	0.63
Flavored fruit/vegetable drinks	0.66
Tea drinks	0.64
Plant-protein drinks	0.63
Sweets				0.70
Pastries			0.32	0.63
Puffed foods	0.41			0.63
Fried foods	0.43			0.62
Western fast foods	0.37			0.47
Nuts			0.56
Wheat or wheat foods			0.65
Meat or poultry		0.46
Fishery products			0.53
Other protein-rich foods		0.42	0.42
Percentages of variation (%)	12.89	11.03	9.70	9.60

Notes: ^aBlanks represent factor loadings with absolute values less than 0.3; ^bData imputation was applied by using modes to replace missing data for each food and beverage group; ^cCoffee drinks and energy drinks or sports drinks were eliminated