Table 2.
Factor-loading matrix for the dietary patterns (N = 1017).
| Variables | Dietary Patterns (Factors) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Functional and Convenience Food | Fresh Vegetables and Fruit | Meat Products | Milk and Dairy Products | Sweets and Sweetened Beverages | Cheese | |
| Milk | 0.040 | −0.090 | 0.278 | 0.711 * | 0.025 | −0.095 |
| Fermented milk beverages (yogurt, kefir, buttermilk) | 0.082 | 0.133 | 0.011 | 0.756 * | 0.165 | 0.076 |
| Cottage cheese, homogenized cheese | 0.070 | 0.141 | −0.014 | 0.629 * | −0.036 | 0.364 |
| Cheese and blue cheese (e.g., Camembert, Brie) | 0.076 | 0.076 | −0.062 | 0.153 | 0.178 | 0.732 * |
| Cold meat (e.g., ham, sirloin) | −0.234 | 0.155 | 0.628 * | 0.014 | 0.129 | 0.138 |
| Sausages and hotdogs | 0.129 | −0.006 | 0.731 * | −0.012 | 0.089 | 0.005 |
| Green vegetables (e.g., lettuce, cabbage, spinach, broccoli) | 0.207 | 0.604 * | 0.111 | 0.078 | 0.002 | 0.085 |
| Red or orange vegetables (e.g., pepper, tomato, carrot) | 0.014 | 0.730 * | 0.029 | −0.031 | 0.048 | 0.170 |
| Apples or pears | −0.024 | 0.617 * | 0.189 | 0.097 | −0.073 | −0.063 |
| Exotic fruit (e.g., banana, orange, grapefruit) | 0.186 | 0.618 * | 0.068 | 0.108 | 0.143 | 0.045 |
| Frozen vegetables | 0.663 * | 0.167 | −0.145 | 0.115 | −0.026 | 0.105 |
| Legumes (e.g., bean, pea, lentil, chickpea) | 0.615 * | 0.253 | 0.083 | 0.080 | −0.084 | −0.033 |
| Berries (e.g., strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, kiwi) | 0.633 * | 0.262 | −0.064 | −0.004 | −0.000 | 0.187 |
| Frozen fruit | 0.757 * | −0.004 | −0.047 | 0.071 | 0.021 | −0.011 |
| Dried fruit (e.g., apples, apricots, plum, raisins) | 0.688 * | 0.264 | −0.143 | 0.077 | −0.015 | 0.017 |
| Nuts or seeds | 0.605 * | 0.362 | −0.140 | 0.090 | 0.059 | 0.043 |
| Instant soups or ready-made soups (e.g., tinned, jar, contentrates) | 0.678 * | −0.201 | 0.065 | 0.038 | 0.248 | 0.073 |
| Canned meat | 0.658 * | −0.218 | 0.153 | −0.068 | 0.161 | 0.050 |
| Superfood (e.g., goji berries, acai berries, vital fiber, milk thistle, psyllium grandmother) | 0.635 * | 0.037 | −0.136 | 0.091 | 0.292 | −0.100 |
| Sweets (e.g., candy, biscuits, cake, chocolate bars, bars of type “muesli”) | −0.028 | 0.202 | 0.060 | 0.014 | 0.638 * | 0.108 |
| Carbonated or still beverages (e.g., Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Sprite, Fanta, lemonade) | 0.146 | −0.069 | 0.264 | −0.037 | 0.736 * | 0.002 |
| Variance Explained (%) | 20.9 | 9.8 | 7.5 | 4.9 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| Total Variance Explained (%) | 50.2 | |||||
| Kaiser’s Measure of Sampling Adequacy | 0.898 ** | |||||
* Correlation coefficient higher than 0.6; ** p < 0.001.