Table 3.

Factor loadings for the six identified dietary patterns.

Food Groups	Dietary Patterns 1
	Rice	Cereal, Milk, Sugar, and Oil	Fruits and Miscellaneous Food	Fish	Vegetables and Corn	Meat and Beverage
Rice and rice products	0.936	−0.009	−0.001	0.142	0.064	0.069
Corn and corn products	−0.331	−0.099	−0.045	0.046	0.294	0.004
Other cereal products	−0.024	0.475	−0.005	−0.040	−0.071	0.092
Starchy roots and tubers	−0.046	−0.003	0.037	0.007	0.145	0.017
Sugar and syrups	0.049	0.327	0.029	0.004	−0.011	0.198
Dried beans, nuts, and seeds	0.051	0.081	−0.027	−0.070	0.049	0.023
Green leafy and yellow vegetables	0.007	−0.105	0.003	−0.002	0.491	−0.073
Other vegetables	0.119	0.038	0.042	−0.118	0.295	−0.049
Fruits	−0.007	0.077	0.570	0.023	0.065	0.000
Fish and fish products	0.113	−0.031	0.018	0.741	−0.054	−0.050
Meat and meat products	0.072	0.205	0.016	−0.133	−0.073	0.525
Poultry	0.077	0.208	0.028	−0.079	−0.038	0.153
Eggs	0.103	0.185	0.026	−0.088	−0.042	0.016
Milk and milk products	−0.055	0.281	0.089	−0.008	−0.003	0.057
Fats and oils	0.028	0.266	0.024	0.024	0.005	0.003
Beverages	−0.009	0.054	−0.008	0.018	0.004	0.312
Condiments and spices	−0.039	0.173	−0.007	0.109	−0.024	0.145
Other miscellaneous	0.030	0.058	0.514	−0.001	0.050	0.004
Proportion variance, %	5.8	3.7	3.4	3.5	2.6	2.7
Cumulative variance, %	5.8	9.5	12.9	16.4	19.0	21.7

¹ Dietary patterns are labeled based on the factor loadings with the absolute value of 0.25 or greater. Bold values represent food groups kept in their related dietary pattern.