Table 4.

Patients’ thoughts on food and habits exacerbating acne vulgaris

	n	%
Sunflower seeds	958	60.98
Nuts	474	30.17
Hot-tasting food	251	15.98
Spicy food	330	21.01
Milk/dairy products	253	16.10
Junk food, such as crisps	1003	63.84
Fried food	671	42.71
Offal	56	3.56
Beverages with coloring, such as coke	469	29.85
Refined sugar, chocolate	747	47.55
Fatty food	741	47.17
Chicken	99	6.30
Red meat	59	3.76
Fish/fish oil	38	2.42
Hormone-injected vegetables/fruit	114	7.26
Alcohol	97	6.17
Wheat and wheat products	33	2.10
Eggplant	36	2.29
Tomato	117	7.45
Ketchup/mayonnaise	356	22.66
Paste/sauces	147	9.36
Gluten	108	6.87
Smoking	140	8.91
Stress	268	17.06
Lack of sleep	125	7.96
Various food products	1234	78.55
Nothing	180	11.45
Other	36	2.29

Total percentage exceeds 100% as more than one response was allowed