Table 1.
Categorization of food groups in dietary pattern analysis.
| Food group | |
|---|---|
| Breads | Different types of bread: Barbaric, barley, sangak, milk-mixed, machine-baked, lawash, taftan, fatir, French loaves and toasts |
| Rice | Simple and different types of kata |
| Low-fat dairy | Low-fat milk, low-fat yogurt, cocoa milk and cheese |
| High-fat dairy | High-fat milk, high-fat yogurt, cream cheese and a variety of dairy ice creams |
| Butter | Butter |
| Red meat and viscera | Traditional food Koobida or loqma kebab, shishlik or barg kebab, bakhtiari kebab, fried meat such as: pan meat, meat mixed with muscle, qurma and steak, cutlet, shami kebab, tass kebab, roast beef, Turkish kebab, hamburger, lamb tongue, legs, parotid, meat roulette, donut or samosa, liver, heart or kidney, rumen, brain, mixed liver |
| Processed meat, canned | (Hamburger, sausages, corned beef, beef jerky meat) |
| Poultry | Grilled chicken, fried chicken and pachin (traditional food) |
| Fish | Fried fish and grilled fish |
| Tuna | Tuna fish |
| Stews | Chicken stew, meat and vegetable stew, split pea stew, celery stew, fesenjan stew, succinic stew, eggplant stew, yatimcha, bamia stew |
| Soups and porridges | Barley soup, noodle soup, other kinds of
soups Noodle aash, wheat or rice aash, yogurt aash, shola qalamkar aash Mashhadi shola, halim, kashk ishkana, egg ishkana |
| Egg | Poached egg, scrambled eggs and omelets |
| Fruits | Apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries, … |
| Fruit juice | Types of fruit juices |
| Nuts | Walnuts, almonds, pistachios, seeds, … |
| Vegetables | Tomato, carrot, cucumber and herbs, … |
| Tea | Tea |
| Coffee | Bitter coffee or nescafe, sweet coffee or nescafe |
| Soft drinks | Coke, diet coke, beer |
| Broth | Broth, lamb head and leg savory |
| Potato | Mashed potatoes, potatoes and yogurt |
| French fries | French fries, chips |
| Bean | Lentils, mixed peas, different types of bean |
| Pizza | Vegetables pizza, meat pizza |
| Spaghetti | Macaroni, lasagna |
| Salads | Olivier, macaroni salad, green salad, cabbage salad, shirazi salad |
| Desserts | Milk pudding, caramel cream, jelly, honey, jam, halva, rice and milk, maqut, sweet halva |
| Sugars and sweets | Sugar cubes or balls, poolaki, sugar, rock candy, sohan, gaz, sugar floss, candies, gummy candy, chewing gum, cream cake or cookies, non-creamy cakes and cookies, jalebi, bamia, ice pop, shirazi faloodeh, canned fruits, different types of syrup |
| Pickles | Different types of pickle |
| Snacks | Biscuit, chips, corn snack, Mexican corn, fruit bar, black kashk, tamarind |