Table 3.

Factor loading matrix for the nine major dietary patterns identified from the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ).

Dietary Patterns (n = 233)
	Almost Healthy	Western Fast Food	High-Processed Food, Meat and Confectionery	Sweet	Fat-diary Products	Vegetable-Fruit	Spices and Additives	Fats	Cereal
Variance explained (%)	9.47	9.22	7.14	5.81	5.56	5.34	4.61	4.08	3.73
Food and food products	Factor loadings
White rice, standard pasta, fine groats (manna, cuscus)	0.663	−0.001	−0.097	0.040	0.048	0.027	0.056	−0.035	0.107
Whole grain bread	0.645	0.133	0.027	−0.062	0.156	−0.035	−0.147	0.066	0.265
White meat dishes (chicken, turkey, rabbit)	0.644	0.065	0.293	0.172	−0.049	0.051	0.174	−0.019	−0.187
Fishes	0.531	0.344	0.204	−0.073	−0.078	0.049	0.081	0.034	0.127
Nuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and other oil seeds	0.487	0.213	−0.028	−0.094	−0.092	0.142	0.123	0.313	0.145
Legumes or dishes from legume seeds (beans, peas, lens, soya)	0.476	0.414	0.136	−0.153	0.150	0.145	0.051	0.092	0.179
Vegetables	0.435	0.112	0.130	−0.105	0.017	0.426	0.351	−0.069	0.119
Eggs	0.403	0.082	0.149	0.002	0.286	−0.007	0.196	0.263	−0.080
Canned meat	0.258	0.680	0.103	0.142	0.132	0.006	−0.015	0.101	0.111
Vegetable canned, marinated or pickled vegetable	0.261	0.679	0.172	−0.094	0.154	0.028	0.101	0.124	0.071
Vegetable or vegetable-fruit juices	−0.091	0.662	0.153	0.012	−0.004	0.316	0.004	0.011	0.190
Powder soups or ready soups (can, jar, concentrated) not including frozen soups	0.106	0.598	0.083	0.273	0.137	0.014	−0.099	0.194	−0.011
Fast food (fries, hamburgers, pizza, chips)	0.058	0.522	0.099	0.388	−0.156	−0.152	−0.079	−0.048	−0.098
Alcohol drinks	0.097	0.402	−0.136	0.152	−0.002	0.007	0.164	0.091	−0.071
Red meat dishes (pork, beef, veal, lamb, venison)	0.355	0.368	0.338	0.122	0.003	0.139	−0.104	−0.108	−0.205
Meats, pork sausages	0.070	0.137	0.739	0.060	0.207	0.067	0.072	0.172	−0.038
Meat, sausage, poultry and veal	0.224	0.193	0.636	0.043	0.135	0.076	0.141	−0.045	0.073
Light bread (wheat, rye, mixed wheat and rye bread, toast, rolls, rogals)	−0.098	−0.038	0.621	−0.067	0.155	0.300	−0.187	0.169	0.073
Fried food (meat tor flour)	0.145	0.182	0.480	0.276	−0.004	−0.076	0.152	0.106	0.001
Sweet carbonated or non-carbonated beverages (coca-cola, pepsi, sprite, fanta, lemonade)	−0.163	0.147	0.165	0.812	−0.095	0.075	0.074	0.128	−0.070
Energy drinks (red bull, shot, black horse and others)	−0.034	0.250	−0.088	0.774	0.179	0.012	−0.090	0.021	0.110
Sweets (cookies, cakes, chocolate bars, ‘muesli’ types and other confectionery products)	0.150	−0.041	0.409	0.503	0.053	0.066	0.035	−0.024	0.030
Milk (flavored milks, cocoa, coffee with milk)	−0.016	−0.068	0.130	0.036	0.751	0.054	−0.009	0.097	0.056
Fermented milk drinks (yoghurt, kefir)	0.182	0.260	0.099	0.003	0.661	0.208	0.069	−0.228	0.045
Cheese (molded cheese, blue cheese)	−0.081	0.185	0.335	0.074	0.515	0.077	0.216	0.183	0.098
Cottage cheese (homogenized cheese, cheese deserts)	0.461	0.316	0.159	−0.007	0.468	0.010	0.068	0.105	−0.013
Hot beverages (tea, coffee, herb or fruit infusions)	0.184	−0.274	−0.141	0.174	0.374	0.660	0.100	0.256	−0.167
Fruit juices	−0.143	0.367	0.200	0.214	0.055	0.626	0.145	0.042	0.043
Fruits	0.374	0.103	0.225	−0.187	0.051	0.608	0.089	−0.095	0.208
Potatoes (excluding fries and chips)	0.063	0.094	0.211	0.057	0.186	0.348	0.075	0.295	0.219
Spices	0.002	0.010	−0.026	0.001	0.121	0.226	0.864	−0.067	−0.097
Olive oil and rapeseed oils	0.345	−0.005	0.219	−0.004	0.045	−0.005	0.615	0.121	0.086
Margarine or mixes with butter and margarine	0.017	0.289	0.271	0.063	0.048	0.142	−0.126	0.758	−0.132
Lard/coconut oil	0.249	0.168	0.057	0.207	0.064	−0.122	0.219	0.534	0.429
Buckwheats, other whole grains, cereals, whole grain pasta	0.268	0.096	0.028	0.019	0.083	0.172	−0.067	−0.029	0.822
Mineral water	0.053	−0.029	0.068	−0.073	0.019	0.016	−0.021	0.018	0.035
Table water, spring water	−0.011	0.116	0.123	−0.059	−0.015	0.011	0.088	0.002	0.057

Factor loadings with absolute values > 0.40 are in bold; Method of extracting factors—main components; Rotation method—Varimax with Kaiser normalization.